Why should tech investors care about Special Educational Needs?

Did you know that 15% of all UK students < 25 years old have Special Educational Needs? 

Over 1,300,000 in England alone.

15% of our future workforce. 15% of our employees' children. 15% of our next generation.

The outdated system supporting them is inadequate. Providing effective support is a statutory requirement for schools, audited heavily by Ofsted and an emotionally charged topic for all involved.

Paper-based admin, manual repetition and centralised workload takes schools to breaking point. The subsequent effect of inefficiency on students and schools is widely regarded a national crisis with Cabinet-level interest*.

Although funding is largely available, the ability to secure it within gov timescales, with appropriate evidence and an informed roll-out plan is resource intensive unless streamlined. The effect of neglecting SEND students is costly for our society, our economy and on individual opportunity.

...£170,000 per SEN student in fact**...

Innovative technology is a huge part of the solution. Enabled by agile market disrupters; the solution is affordable, intuitive and scaleable.

One solution currently being used by a growing customer base in the UK is SENDiT™ researched and developed by Impact Education Software.

An elegant solution to a complex problem, SENDiT majors on long-overdue digitisation and online collaboration between staff. Users follow a guided best-practice template with an intuitive UX.

Student data is loaded, intelligently indexed, overviewed and tasks are distributed to relevant staff for review and comment. The online suite acts as a wingman, control centre and performance coach for all school staff directed by their existing SEN co-ordinator (a senior role). Project management features support senior leadership to make resource forecasts and informs strategic planning. The feedback is unanimously positive from the front line.

A national roll-out of such a tool which will see the UK unlocking a new talent pool, reducing mental health impact on teaching staff and avoiding generation-length unemployment costs for a vertical cross-section of skillsets throughout the population.

Provision can scale from students with profound & complex needs who aspire towards personal independence through to highly gifted students who process information in a different way to the norm and are capable of pushing the envelope of human understanding. Indeed, a significant proportion of household names dedicate their success to the ability to overcome and exploit their 'Special Needs'; including dyslexia, autism and sensory challenges.

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About Us:

Impact Education Software is an EdTech providing schools with SaaS to streamline Special Educational Needs monitoring, assessment and funding. A subject affecting 32,000 UK schools including 500,000+ teachers, 15% of students and 27% of parents.

At the heart of everything we do, we believe in breaking boundaries. We believe in leading from the front, achieving excellence and making a difference.

The way we break boundaries is by developing technology which enhances leadership performance. Our technology brings teams together to achieve results, giving leaders the edge to deliver impact and innovation.

Special Educational Needs management happens to be a highly complex system at the spearhead of a national crisis. We have set our minds to work on it and improve the lives of those on the front line.

• Get in touch for early access to our Investor Memorandum launching this April: contact@impacteducationsoftare.com
• Impact Education Software will be seeking seed investment to serve a growing share of the UK's 32,000 schools with a unit price ranging from £750 - £1,999 per annum.
• An SEIS registered company utilising R&D credits and continued partnership exploration.

*General election 2019: Special needs 'crisis' dominates hustings

**Supporting one person with learning disabilities into employment reduces lifetime cost to the public purse by ~£170,000 and increases their income by between 55 and 95 per cent.