The Professional Development Record (PDR) provides staff with a centralised space to set meaningful targets, track their progress, and monitor ongoing professional development activities. It links directly to the latest teaching standards, ensuring staff can align their goals with current expectations. By recording evidence and reflections, staff can clearly demonstrate the impact of their development over time, supporting performance reviews, appraisals, and continuous professional growth.
The Self-Evaluation in iP enables leadership teams to collaborate effectively, share experiences, and build a collective understanding of strengths and areas for development. It integrates seamlessly with improvement planning, ensuring that identified priorities are actioned and monitored. By providing a clear structure aligned to the latest Ofsted Inspection changes from 2025, it supports leaders in preparing confidently for inspection while driving meaningful, whole-school or college improvement.
The Quality Assurance Audits in iP give organisations the flexibility to use existing frameworks, such as safeguarding, staff wellbeing, or risk registers, or to create tailored audits that meet their specific needs. This enables leaders to systematically assess key areas, ensure compliance, and identify opportunities for improvement. By embedding audits within iP, organisations can monitor progress, share outcomes, and strengthen accountability, all contributing to a robust culture of continuous improvement.
The Improvement Plan in iP provides a clear and structured way for organisations to set priorities, allocate actions, and track progress towards their strategic goals. It ensures that development activities are aligned with self-evaluation outcomes and inspection requirements, creating a direct link between identified needs and measurable impact. Leaders can collaborate, monitor milestones, and adjust actions in real time, making the improvement plan a dynamic tool that drives whole-school or college improvement and long-term success.
The Policy Management feature in iP streamlines the creation, organisation, and review of policies across the whole organisation. Leaders can ensure that policies are up to date, compliant with statutory requirements, and easily accessible to staff. Automated reminders and version control help maintain consistency and accountability, while linking policies to wider improvement priorities strengthens governance. This ensures policies are not only well managed but also actively support school or college improvement.
The Document Storage feature in iP provides a secure and centralised location for all organisational documents, making them easy to access, share, and manage. Leaders and staff can upload key files such as evidence, reports, and resources, ensuring that important information is organised and available when needed. With structured storage, documents remain current and consistent, supporting compliance, collaboration, and the smooth running of improvement activities across the school or college.
The Reporting feature in iP allows leaders to generate clear, data-driven insights across all areas of the organisation. Reports can track progress on targets, professional development, audits, and improvement plans, providing a comprehensive view of performance. Customisable dashboards and analytics help identify trends, celebrate successes, and highlight areas for further development, supporting informed decision-making and driving whole-school or college improvement.
The Managing Staff Records feature in iP provides a secure, centralised system to store and maintain all essential staff information. Leaders can easily track roles, responsibilities, and line management hierarchy, ensuring records are accurate and up to date. The system integrates with third-party software to facilitate the process of onboarding and data accuracy.
The Settings feature in iP allows leaders and administrators to configure the system to meet their organisation’s specific needs. Users can manage permissions, customise workflows, and adjust modules to align with local policies and priorities. By tailoring the platform, settings ensure that iP supports efficient processes, secure access, and effective oversight, enabling leaders to focus on improvement and strategic goals.