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Boost outcomes with Impulse - the flexible school MIS built for SEND and more

Delivering the best possible service to children, young people, and families is central to your education mission. Impulse from CACI is a powerful and adaptable education MIS that simplifies processes, reduces admin, and supports better outcomes.

As a modular school MIS, it’s designed to meet the complex needs of SEND management while connecting teams across admissions, attendance, welfare, and more.

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What is Impulse?

Impulse education MIS has been developed in close collaboration with local authorities to support your people, processes, and goals. Designed as a modular system, it allows you to adopt the features you need - building around existing systems and scaling as your needs evolve.

Whether you're supporting early years, SEND, school transport, or education welfare, Impulse enables teams across services to work in a more joined-up, transparent, and efficient way - bringing everything together in one powerful school MIS.

 

The education MIS trusted by Local Authorities

Impulse is the education MIS 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 SEND, attendance, 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 school 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

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