Education

Capita combines first class professional support services and innovative products with education expertise to help clients deliver against challenging agendas. 

The importance of providing high standards of education cannot be underestimated and our multi-skilled teams at Capita certainly share this sentiment.

We have over 20 years’ experience of helping schools and local authorities delivering a wide range of services.  By increasing efficiency and improving performance through expert resources and support, ICT, specialist software and information management systems and property consultancy, we are regarded as a reliable, knowledgeable and innovative partner.

We understand that our clients are under continuing pressure and are seeking ways in which to respond quickly and adequately to changing legislation and Government initiatives. Whether it is helping to provide technology to support learning, improved learning environments or helping to support and track shared learning across multiple education establishments, we are constantly evolving our offer and technology to keep you one step ahead of these requirements.

It’s what we do best. We take care of the administration burden behind the scenes, leaving education providers to focus on what they do best – educating.  We would like to think that, in our own way, we are contributing towards pupils realising their full potential and becoming the success stories of the future.


“Capita Children’s Services was the only company to offer us a system that reflected the standards we wanted to achieve in terms of caring for the 130,000 children in our area.” – Roger Green, Head of Service, Information Sharing and OneVision, Cambridgeshire County Council

“The information we hold in SIMS helps us not only to monitor and provide appropriate support for the children, but also to engage with parents in a more detailed and meaningful way.” – Harry Weightman, Headteacher, Easington Colliery Primary School

Fast facts
Information management

Our education software is used in over 21,000 schools

National Strategies

Capita delivers National Strategies, a national programme for raising pupil attainment

Case study: Department for Education 

Capita administers a number of services for the Department for Education (DfE), including National Strategies, Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), Adult Learning Grant (ALG) and Teachers' Pensions.