Civica Education Operations (formerly Parago)

A complete operations management solution for education

Civica Education Operations (formerly Parago) is a flexible, scalable school compliance software to manage day-to-day tasks, risk management, contract register, asset management, health and safety maintenance schedules, policies and more.

It’s designed specifically for education with input from school and multi-academy trust leaders. Our smart cloud technology gives you the peace of mind and cost savings you need to focus on delivering top class education.

Why choose Civica Education Operations?

Digitally reflect your operations strategy by streamlining compliance, operations and maintenance

Improve efficiency by redeploying money, time and staff on other priorities

Fully flexible, scalable cloud solution, designed to grow with multi academy trusts

Leverage Civica’s wealth of sector experience, successfully supporting education for over 25 years

Create the school operations infrastructure you need with Civica

As well as supporting the management of your school operations, estate management and staff training, our school compliance software is designed to make drastic money and time savings with streamlined maintenance, sophisticated reporting, more control and ongoing certified skills training.

Download our info pack to see how our software can support your day-to-day school operations management strategy.

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Civica Education Operations management software enables you to do more with less:

MATs have full visibility of operations and compliance across all their schools: Our school management system helps muti academy trusts to streamline their standards, SLAs (Service Level Agreements), resources, contracts and compliance management. Centralising trust processes ensures schools are working to the standards the trusts set, aggregates data and ensures everyone is working together.

Keep your students safe with automated school risk management: Risk management for schools is vital for keeping people within safe. Schools, colleges and trusts can streamline their risk assessments, share with staff to ensure instant access and accountability. Digitise and automate any risk assessment and store in one central location, including COSHH assessments, ensuring everyone is up to date. Civica Education Operations helps school leaders to make innovative decisions, proving to be a holistic safeguarding software for schools.

Comprehensive school compliance software: Automate the scheduling and planning of compliance checks within one central system. Civica Education Operations gives you full oversight and control of all maintenance works and Health & Safety checks happening across your sites, including helpful daily to-do lists via mobile app. You’ll always know what checks have been completed, what’s been missed and what’s upcoming.

Achieve good estates management for your schools: Civica Education Operations also acts as facilities management software for schools. It ensures you can log regular checks and they’re being carried out, keeping you one step ahead. You can store, manage and export information in one central system, complying with DfE guidelines. Staff members can easily complete maintenance checks, tests, services, and due diligence, storing them securely in the cloud.

Know where all your IT and equipment are with our school asset management system

Always know where your IT and equipment is. Track, monitor, loan, audit and locate your devices using a PC or on the mobile app. Icon-based dashboards make asset management for schools easy, enabling you to virtually map and allocate assets to staff, students and rooms for all sites and schools.

You’ll always have a comprehensive and accurate audit trail and can make better decisions about when you replace assets, services or resources, drastically saving you time and money.

School helpdesk service

Reporting and raising issues shouldn’t be a challenge. Our school help desk ticketing software to reduce miscommunication, ensure issues are dealt with swiftly, and increase efficiency. Staff and students can report issues with a simple email, which will automatically create and assign a ticket.

We work closely with schools to ensure they can respond rapidly to change and scale multi-academy trusts with ease. We can help you save money, work smarter and provide the insight you need to prove compliance.

Sophisticated reports using real time-data: Schools and trusts often need to prove compliance and accountability. Our sophisticated dashboard and reporting tools give you a visual representation of operational management data for your school or trust. School leaders can easily see the status of compliance checks, asset management, incidents, risks and contracts throughout the school or trust. Have a complete overview of all school operations and enable you to quickly spot red flags before they become a problem.

MATs and schools we support

Kent Catholic Schools Partnership

Parago helped this rapidly growing multi academy trust get to grips with asset management saving them time and money.

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FAQs

What is a school management system?: School Management Software is a smart, often cloud, system designed to streamline the back-office management and administration of schools, colleges, universities and trusts. It automates time-consuming tasks and drives efficiency and cost savings.

What are the benefits of a school management software?

Reduce resources and increase efficiency with automation
Streamline and standardise important information such as compliance, risk management, school policies, condition surveys, asset management and more.
Easily prove compliance with a few clicks to SLT, OFSTED and DfE.

How does Civica Education Operations help with school compliance and risk management?: Our cloud school operations management system helps schools, academies, colleges and trusts keep their students safe. Our system enables school leaders to have full oversight and control of all compliance management, including maintenance works and health and safety checks. Our risk assessment software for schools enables management to meet compliance requirements and maintain high-quality records.

What is school compliance software?: School compliance software manages all compliance activities from scheduled testing and health and safety maintenance checks to accident and incident reporting and first aid administration. It's a tool that automates tasks, tracks compliance status, logs who completed what and helps monitor the legal safety measures required in a school environment.

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