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Empower your schools with Impulse education management software

Delivering the best possible service to children, young people, and families sits at the heart of your education services. Impulse from CACI is a powerful and flexible education management software solution designed to help you do exactly that.

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What is Impulse?

Impulse has been developed in close collaboration with local authorities to ensure it supports your people, processes and goals. With its modular design, you can adopt as much or as little of the platform as you need—building around your existing systems and scaling as your needs evolve.

Whether you're supporting early years, SEN, school transport, or education welfare, Impulse helps teams across services to work in a more joined-up, transparent and efficient way.

 

The school admissions software trusted by Local Authorities

Impulse is the education management software trusted by councils and education leaders across the UK to reduce admin, enhance transparency and improve pupil outcomes.

 

Read our Newham Council case study

Built around the needs of Local Authorities:

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Connected and
 efficient

Gain a complete, real-time view of every child’s journey. Impulse brings together schools, professionals, and parents - making collaboration seamless and decisions faster.
 
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Holistic and
child-focused

See the full picture across attendance, SEND, safeguarding and more. Impulse helps you identify needs early and deliver fair, inclusive support.
 
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Flexible and
modular

With 17 configurable modules, Impulse fits around your services. Use what you need, when you need it - streamlining processes and reducing duplication.

 

 

See how Impulse can transform your education management

Explore how Impulse can help you reduce your admin and support better outcomes for every child.

Impulse's core functionality

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Certa's Core functionality

Admissions and transfers

  • Simplify school admissions with an easy, accurate, and efficient system

  • Evidence your decision making 

  • Easily configure to your oversubscription criteria

Appeals

  • Seamlessly handle appeals for parents, guardians and schools

  • Maintain an evidence-based, fair and transparent appeals process

  • Covers admissions and exclusions, keeping everyone in the loop

ALN/SEND

  • Support early identification of needs and plan interventions for the right support

  • Accurate information sharing between parents, schools and professionals

  • Easily create and contribute to EHCPs

Child protection

  • Local authorities and schools are informed of every child’s situation

  • Tracks allegations and ensures proper teacher training on child protection policies

  • Ensures schools are aware of and meet child protection standards

Core

  • Serves as the central database for every child in your services

  • Stores all details, documents, records and achievements with every touchpoint recorded

  • Unifies data from parents, schools and professionals into one comprehensive record

Educational psychology

  • Assists relevant parties in accessing behavioural support

  • Stores management referrals and work records

  • Maintains detailed and accurate records for each student

Book a Impulse demo