EPM
Who we are
For over 30 years, EPM has been the trusted partner for schools and trusts nationwide. Through our accredited and award-winning services, we help you to streamline your processes and empower your people to support in the delivery of exceptional education outcomes.
Whether your aim is to enhance operational efficiency, remain compliant or receive support with strategic projects, we can help. By bringing together the best-in-class advice with market-leading technology, we can offer a complete end-to-end solution to support you at any stage of your journey.
As a dedicated partner to education leaders, we understand the critical role of efficient workforce management in creating an optimal learning environment for children within schools. Our services aim to simplify HR and payroll processes, enhance HRIS and support schools and trusts in focusing on their core mission of providing high-quality teaching & learning through a supportive framework for academic success.
We help schools and trusts of every kind, and with our focus purely on supporting the education sector, we understand the unique challenges that you face.
With EPM as your trusted partner, you’ll be empowered with readily available data through our integrated cloud-based platform enabling you to effortlessly oversee and analyse data patterns and trends via our interactive dashboard for data-driven decision-making.
As part of our service, in addition to innovative technology, you’ll also benefit from expert advice from our team of HR professionals. Your dedicated, named team of highly skilled and multi-disciplinary experts will work alongside you to identify and implement tailored solutions that align with your organisation’s objectives, enabling you to confidently manage potential HR challenges, implement pre-emptive measures and assess your performance against the DfE’s ‘workforce’ descriptor, as one of the five quality pillars of a strong Trusts.
Over 2,500 schools and 200 trusts, in more than 100 local authorities across the UK, rely on us to help them successfully navigate the education landscape.
We’re on numerous supplier frameworks including Crescent Purchasing Consortium, Everything FM, Bloom, 2Buy2 and Churchmarketplace, so you can feel confident that we are pre-accredited and can provide you with a high-quality, value for money service with people at the heart of it.
What we do
Having supported over 200 trusts and 2,500 schools over the last 30 years, our mission at EPM is to support continuous improvement by seamlessly blending specialist software with the skills and experience of our people to offer a complete solution to the education sector, enabling our customers to increase operational efficiency, remain compliant and support strategic objectives.
With EPM’s integrated HR, Payroll and Pensions Services, we offer streamlined processes, guaranteed compliance, and time savings as a result.
By bringing together the best-in-class HR advice with market-leading technology, we provide a unique service that provides holistic support across the employee lifecycle from recruitment and onboarding to casework, consultancy, challenging industrial relations and people strategy reviews.
With EPM Connect, our cutting-edge technology platform, you’ll benefit from centralised data in one secure location, allowing you to analyse data trends and patterns via an interactive dashboard, enabling you to streamline processes, drive efficiencies and proactively manage your workforce data.
To empower effective employee management, you’ll receive automated reminder alerts, have access to a detailed audit trail, task tracking, and informative graphs and charts, providing a holistic view for data-driven strategic decisions.
Employees have access to a central online portal to carry out key activities such as viewing tasks, updating personal information, and making leave requests, resulting in improved accuracy and a significant reduction in the time spent on employee related administration. Plus, with the automatic generation of employee contracts and contractual letters, these are instantly secured on the employee’s profile, along with their e-signature accepting the terms.
Our team of HR experts provide unlimited support and advice on contractual documentation, as well as advice on all stages of the employee lifecycle, including alignment with people strategy for organisational growth and success. You’ll have access to a dedicated highly skilled, multi-disciplinary EPM team with dedicated contacts, who will work alongside you using the data gathered in EPM Connect, to proactively manage your workforce, enabling potential challenges to be addressed proactively. We’ll assist in identifying and implementing customised solutions that align with your people strategy and objectives.
We also provide regular updates on best practice and legislative changes in the sector, to ensure compliance and help our schools and trusts stay at the forefront of the education landscape.
We are on hand to act as an extension to your internal team, to provide additional support and capacity so that you can focus on what matters most - achieving educational outcomes.
How we help
Since 1993, we have worked exclusively in education and helped over 2,500 schools and 200 trusts to become more efficient and successful. However, in that time we have never stood still and regularly engage with our customers, the wider sector, CIPP, CIPD, the Better Hiring Institute and other regulatory bodies, to understand the challenges facing the sector and how we can evolve our service to address these challenges.
An example of this has been the development of EPM Connect, our cutting-edge people management platform, which enhances our services and support. Based on the feedback from school leaders we understood that there was gap that needed bridging between HR technology and advice. With input from those in the sector, we have developed a unique service that brings together the best-in-class advice with market-leading technology, allowing us to offer a complete end-to-end solution, and from an organisation with a proven track-record of over 30 years’ experience, in the industry.
With the automation of processes and centralised data, we aim to free up valuable time to allow school and trust leaders to focus on what matters most – achieving education outcomes. But we are more than technology. People are at the heart of what we do.
With the education landscape continuously changing, and with the government’s focus on building strong trusts, it is more important than ever that there is a community and sounding board for trust leaders to share their learnings and challenges in a safe space. This is why we offer complimentary blogs, webinars, training, and roundtable sessions to help school leaders improve, share their insights and experiences, and hear from industry experts. Having worked with some of the largest MATs on their growth journey, we understand the challenges and inflection points of MAT growth. We provide support to MAT Boards with employee relations, people strategy and strategic growth plans, as well as financial planning and advice. Our safeguarding offering is also a key part of our service.
To help customers know they are making the right purchasing decisions, we have also undergone thorough assessments to successfully be appointed to numerous frameworks including Crescent Purchasing Consortium, Everything FM, Bloom, 2Buy2 and Churchmarketplace.
At EPM, we aim to empower leaders in education to improve pupil outcomes and to deliver lasting and positive change – not just for their schools, but also to benefit the wider sector.
At EPM, we believe that supporting trust leaders with their strategic planning and decision making is crucial to shaping the future of education. That's why we're offering a complimentary 30-minute consultation with one of our senior education specialists to discuss a range of current topics, including developing a growth strategy, assessing the options of a merger, reviewing the effectiveness of trust central services, proactive school place planning, or detailed due diligence processes. We're here to share our expertise, help you tackle complex challenges, and provide practical advice to ensure your Trust's growth and success. Whether navigating organisational change or aiming to strengthen your current operations, we're committed to helping you get it right for the benefit of your teams and pupils.
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