During the COVID-19 pandemic, supply Teachers, Early Years Practitioners and Classroom Assistants provided vital support, enabling schools to continue to provide education to children and young people during the most challenging of times.

So, when the supply booking system provided as part of the SEEMiS management information system was withdrawn, North Ayrshire Education service was keen to procure a new system that would be easy for their users to access, deliver excellent management information and reduce unnecessary administration.

The service procured ShiftPlan, provided by Flyte.

In July 2021, Education and HR began working with us to tailor the ShiftPlan to North Ayrshire Council’s needs and the new booking system was launched in October 2021.

The result was a new cloud-based supply booking system that users can access from any web enabled device. North Ayrshire schools can easily place an offer of supply work as soon as they are aware of the need. And, supply staff can access the system to update details of their availability and both review and accept offers of supply work, all in a few simple clicks! ShiftPlan also produces timesheets, which makes the process of paying supply staff so much easier.