Strategic Planning Dashboards
Data-driven planning and optimisation dashboards built for education providers. Choose your sector below.
Comprehensive LA Optimisation Services
Our LA Optimise service provides Local Authorities with detailed analysis and planning tools to make the most of their educational estate and resources. We help you identify opportunities for improvement, plan for future needs and make best use of your allocated revenue and capital funding.
Using our proprietary "Optimise" tools and extensive experience in the education sector, we deliver actionable insights that lead to tangible improvements in space utilisation, resource allocation and therefore educational outcomes.
Our team works closely with you to understand your specific challenges and goals, ensuring that our recommendations are tailored to your unique context and requirements.
Key Benefits
- Optimise use of existing school spaces
- Accurate projections for mainstream and SEND/AP provision
- Identify reveneue and capital cost avoidance
- Data-driven development planning
- Comprehensive SEND commissioning strategy
Our LA Optimise Services Include
School Space Planning
- School Internal Space & Mainstream Projections
- School/Other Assets External Space Mapping
SEND/AP & Early Years
- SEND/AP Projections/Commissioning Strategy
- SEN Local Authority Benchmarks
- SEN EHCP Caseload
- Early Years Projections
- EHCP Pupil Data
- Exclusion and Suspension Data
- SEN Assessment and Discontinuation Data
Funding & Resources
- DSG Revenue Funding
- SEND Support Services Spend
- High Needs Revenue Projections
- Capital Costs
- Cost Avoidance
- Capital Funding Optimisation
Area Analysis
- LA High Level Profile
- Pupil Home Locations
- Deprivation Data
- Local Developments
- Potential Risks
School Estate
- School Block Age
- DEC Energy Ratings
- DfE Condition
- School Level Profile
- Changes to Local School Places
A selection of our "Optimise" Local Authority strategic planning dashboards are shown below:
Forecasting Demand and Supply
Predict future educational needs and ensure adequate provision.
Success Story
Local Authority
Sheffield City Council
Return on Investment
£1 of 1st Planner Fees Resulted in £59 of capital savings, equating to ROI of 5,948%
How We Helped
Sheffield City Council faced challenges with increasing pupil numbers and SEND requirements, while working with limited space and budget constraints. Our LA Optimise service provided a comprehensive analysis of their current estate and future needs.
We identified opportunities to repurpose underutilised spaces, developed accurate projections for SEND provision, and created a strategic plan for estate development that aligned with available funding sources.
Video Tutorial
Watch our step-by-step guide to using the dashboard
This video provides a comprehensive walkthrough of all dashboard features and functionality.
Written Guidance
Request access to our detailed PDF documentation
Dashboard User Guide
This comprehensive guide is tailored specifically to our Power BI Optimise dashboard and contains detailed documentation on interpreting the data visualisations and navigating the dashboards. It also includes a data directory for all of the data sources
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