White Woods Primary Academy Trust

The Challenge

Andy Blatch, Trust IT Manager, wanted a central sign in system which would ensure that staff members could easily roam between all thirteen schools, whilst allowing them to easily track who is on which site; guaranteeing that they uphold outstanding safeguarding practices.

The MAT also required a consistent system which allowed staff and visitors to sign in effortlessly during their events and training days.

The Solution

Glowing recommendations of InVentry’s primary school visitor management software, along with previous experience of using the system, ensured that the staff members of White Woods Primary Academy knew it was the right solution for the full trust.

Developed with flexibility in mind, InVentry Central provided the trust with an exceptional overview of who is at which site, at any given time. This now facilitates selected staff members to roam between their schools for headteacher events and training days. Personnel files are instantly pulled down from InVentry Cloud meaning they’re automatically recognised as a staff member within the trust, and any new staff members are instantly synced site wide.

Andy Blatch said “We were looking for one central system that would be standardised throughout our entire trust that also provides a better first impression to our visitors, allows our staff members to sign in throughout all schools quickly and efficiently, and enables us to have a better understanding of our events management. InVentry has done just that and superseded our expectations!”

For White Woods Primary Academy, safeguarding was of the utmost importance which is why they’ve fully utilised features such as our late pupil sign in, early leaver sign out and trip management to ensure they know where their pupils are at all times.

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For an extra safeguarding element, the Trust use colour-coded lanyards to differentiate between their tiered staff members and visitors; meaning they’re clearly identified and recognised around site and in the case a fire evacuation.