Education HR system
Everything you need to manage and support your staff
SAMpeople is the UK’s fastest growing education HR system, transforming HR, recruitment and payroll for over 2,300 schools and trusts.
SAMpeople is now part of the Arbor School Management Suite
Onboard new hires, track absences, and manage cover with two systems that work seamlessly together. Staff data syncs instantly between Arbor and SAMpeople, keeping it accurate and up-to-date everywhere at once.
SAMpeople and Arbor together
Hear from two trust leaders on how they’re using SAMpeople and Arbor to bring together their staff and student data and make a real difference to their schools.
From case-work to contracts
SAMpeople is a complete HR system for schools and trusts, designed by education HR specialists. Manage absences, CPD, communications, documents and more — with best-practice workflows and features built-in.
Keep staff supported and engaged
With all your people data, processes, policies and documents in one place. Take the assumptions out of your data with a complete view of absences, turnover, DE&I and case-load across your whole school or trust.
Engage and support your staff
Give staff a simple way to request leave, access documents and submit new personal details with SAMpeople’s mobile-friendly employee portal. End the paper back-and-forth with all policies, tasks and training activities in a place staff can always find.
Align your policies and processes
Build your policies, processes and templates in SAMpeople to create consistency. Automated reminders and alerts help your people managers stay on top of important follow-ups.
Hire with confidence and professionalism
Create a professional online candidate journey, advertise roles and ensure Safer Recruitment with SAMpeople’s recruitment software, which integrates seamlessly with SAMpeople.
Features
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Case Management
Manage and track HR cases. Prepare case bundles and hearing packs in seconds
Absence Management
Understand the trends, triggers and cost of absences at a school or MAT-level
Employee Portal (MySAM)
Help staff self-serve with a dedicated portal they can access anytime
Performance Management
Record and track objectives, targets and activities
Reporting & Analytics
School and trust-wide reports in minutes. Filter by school, date, manager and department
Contract Builder
Use best-practice templates built by our in-house education HR specialists
Policy Compliance
See expiries of documents and track acceptance of policies
Reporting & Analytics
Deliver leadership reports in minutes. Filter by school, date, manager and department
Training and CPD
Create and record all training events and monitor progress
Payroll Export Report
Tracks all new starters, leavers and contract changes
Org Chart
Get a clear overview of employees and reporting lines
PowerBI (coming soon)
Visualise your staff and Arbor data together, any way you like
“[SAMpeople] has all reduced admin time excessively… It’s helping build an inclusive culture.”
Sally Boaden
Chief Finance & Operations Officer, Raleigh Education Trust
“Before using the system, we had one of the highest absence rates for Special Schools across the council and now we have one of the lowest.”
Josephine Hallas
Business Manager, Southgate School
“SAMpeople was our first venture into removing some heavy paper admin work. It’ already making time savings and improved reporting processes.”
Hazel Goodwin
Ruskin Community High School
“Staff and Managers have found the system to be very user friendly and can be tailored to your college needs.”
Neil Anderson
Head of HR, Lakes College West Cumbria