Technical or IT Support Service
Computeam
Computeam has a 20-year track record of delivering IT solutions and support to schools. At the heart of our ethos is our mission statement to “improve educational outcomes using technology”. Our ICT Support services go beyond fixing faults, to make sure that any investment in classroom technology delivers a significant educational return for both students and educators.
We design high-quality hardware and software solutions with a cloud-first approach that has rapidly gained momentum in recent years. We manage and install our own solutions, and include cutting-edge support and tailored user training services to guarantee effective, sustained results.
We are passionate about what we do and recognise that our staff are our greatest asset. We actively work to hire and develop amazing people and pride ourselves on our levels of staff contentment supported by our status as Investors in People Gold. In turn, our motivated teams ensure that we deliver an excellent service to our school clients.
We currently work with over 450 schools and Multi-Academy Trust clients across the country, and are proud to have won a place on all of the DfE’s recommended IT service frameworks including the Crown Commercial Services framework and the Everything ICT Framework.
Dataspire Solutions
Dataspire Solutions provides IT services, solutions and support to schools and academies across the UK and British International Schools in the Middle East, with a mission to:
• improve outcomes for children and young people
• help teachers to focus on teaching and learning
• support senior leadership teams to drive progressive learning communities
• and create ICT confidence
As well as providing Managed ICT support for schools, Dataspire works alongside some of the UK’s largest construction and infrastructure companies to advise, design and implement education specific technologies and innovations found in modern schools today, with a particular focus on energy efficiency and sustainability.
A huge focus for the Dataspire team is to support schools with the seemingly contradictory challenge of keeping pace with emerging technologies and saving money, while simultaneously becoming more energy efficient to reduce impact on the environment. It’s challenging but not impossible and Dataspire delivers effective ICT solutions that can help to do just that.
Visit www.dataspire.co.uk to find out how we can improve outcomes for your establishment.
Joskos Solutions
Joskos is a successful provider of services to schools that enrich the classroom experience and help to improve learning outcomes.
Over the last year Joskos have gone above and beyond to ensure their team and the Joskos family of schools are connected, can use technology confidently and learning can continue despite the extenuating circumstances. Despite Covid, Joskos maintained excellent relationships at strategic, teacher and technical levels and achieved a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 88/100.
Joskos is focused on holistic digital transformation to complement school improvement and self-evaluation. We achieve this through the combination of strategic consultancy, continuous professional development, managed services and environment transformation.
The Joskos team is made up of passionate diverse individuals who are devoted to improving the lives of young people across the world.
LGfL
LGfL is one of the fastest growing EdTech companies in the UK whose mission is the advancement of education. A core passion of LGfL is tackling inequality, promoting diversity and ensuring no one gets left behind. Initiatives like BridgeTheDivide have secured devices for communities that would otherwise not have had them. By making our free schools meals eligibility checker free to every school we hope to have identified over £100M of funding by the end of this calendar year bringing support and funds to communities facing huge challenges.
Our standards of customer care are exceptional, with a retention rate of over 90%, sometimes involving incredible risk on behalf of our customers.
Our empathy and understanding of schools’ needs has enabled us to design, build and provide solutions that they have consumed at an unprecedented scale. This has catapulted our growth to nearly £50m in 2020/21 compared to just over £30m the year before.
As Phil Hedger, CEO at the LEO Academy Trust in Sutton, says, “LGfL saves us money and helps us cut teacher workload.””
Plum Innovations
Our vision is to assist teachers succeeding in their professional fields with an efficient and solid IT platform by providing a stress-free IT experience.
Plum Innovations is dedicated to exceptional customer service working with leading organisations across both public and private sectors. With deep functional and industry expertise, we are passionate about taking on immense technical challenges and are able to address problems swiftly with efficient solutions.
We deliver top class services and support through user friendly and cutting edge technology with cost-effective solutions.
Plum Innovations goes the extra mile to ensure excellent services are always delivered in terms of quality work, timely delivery, professional behaviour, and value for money. We continually strive to better our services by employing innovative solutions and partnering with top organisations to meet the growing and changing needs from our schools and teachers.
We work tirelessly towards helping reinforce the positive impact of EdTech on students’ learning outcomes and assisting schools to employ the ideal technology, in the most cost-effective way.”
Schools ICT – Orbis
Schools ICT are a team that operate across the South East. We have been delivering ICT services since 1990 and currently support 255 schools. Operating on a not-for-profit basis, our sole purpose is to provide services that add value to schools, supporting teaching and learning to enable the best possible outcomes.
To give an insight into our portfolio, we provide managed internet connections that are fast, secure and safe by design. These include links into other services for educational content such as secure remote access that enables staff to work from anywhere on any device; remote backup to provide schools with reassurance that their data is safe and multi-vendor MIS Support and Training. We are also accredited partners of Arbor, Bromcom, ScholarPack, SIMS.
We provide regular reporting and service review meetings to allow schools to feed back to us and receive help in planning for the future, in a logical and structured way.
As a Google Partner we have delivered technical deployment and user training to 73 schools across England. Since the introduction of the Computing Curriculum, we have been supporting teachers on how best to teach this subject and Online Safety which many of them find a challenge.
Telford and Wrekin Council ICT
Telford & Wrekin ICT provide a fully managed ICT Service, working as strategic and cohesive partners with schools bringing suppliers, futurologists, technology experts, school teaching specialists and leaders together to achieve far-reaching outcomes ahead of the normal pace.
Providing a high quality service that is value for money and works in partnership with Schools and Learning Communities. Delivering to schools individual needs but gaining the benefits of working together to share best practice and achieve savings.
The ICT we provide is reliable, adaptable, secure and sustainable enabling learners of all ability to maximise their use of ICT and develop skills that allow them to rapidly adapt to global technologies.
We’re now an approved supplier on the Everything ICT Framework, and ICT Procurement framework specialising in the education sector and DfE recommend.
The Connected Learning Centre
Connected Learning Centre is an education charity, part of the Education Development Trust, and our team is made up of consultants and experts in technical support, the teaching of computing and digital pedagogy.
