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74 www.theisba.org.uk HEADLINE PARTNER Stand 102 Vectare’s digital transport management system eliminates paper from transport processes, enhancing safeguarding and attracting new families to your school, by using the investment you make in your school transport network as a marketing tool. Vectare employs a team of qualified transport planners and transport managers, who are standing by to assist clients with technical and compliance queries relating to their school transport. Whether you need advice on procuring PSVAR-compliant transport services, help with operating your minibus fleet compliantly or some geospatial analysis conducting to optimise your transport routes, their consultancy professionals have the knowledge, experience and understanding of the independent education sector to solve your transport challenges. Vectare’s award-winning software can be used to manage your daily transport routes and ad hoc transport requirements. Incorporating an online booking system for home to school transport, real time bus tracking and pupil registration and a school minibus booking calendar, their school transport management system streamlines and digitises all of your school’s transport-related processes. Cost-effective Vectare has been working with the independent school sector since they launched with their very first client back in 2016, and 80 percent of the 1.8 million passenger journeys per annum that they are responsible for are to or from independent schools. Their solutions are designed to be cost-effective for schools, with the administrative cost savings achieved by digitising transport management more than outweighing the price charged for the software. Additionally, by making it easier for parents to access information about school transport services, Vectare’s clients find that usage of their transport services increases after they get involved. Innovative new approaches The ISBA conference is a fantastic opportunity for school leaders with financial and operational responsibility to discover innovative new approaches to service delivery across a vast range of support functions, and Vectare is excited to be a part of that. A desire to enhance the parental and pupil experience, whilst also improving efficiency, is leading more and more schools towards a digital-first agenda. However, a common reservation amongst school leaders considering digital platforms is a lack of flexibility, and many have legitimate concerns that, by adopting a new piece of software, they will be forced to disrupt established processes, causing unnecessary upset for both staff and parents. Vectare’s core focus is delivering a flexible, high quality software as a service solution to clients, and they’re exceptionally responsive to schools with new feature requests. Their in-house team of software developers design and develop 100% of Vectare’s software suite, which allows them to be really flexible when schools ask them to make changes to suit their specific needs. Vectare makes school transport simple. Founded by friends Dominic Kalantary and Peter Nathanail in 2016, Vectare has grown to be a leading supplier of home-to-school transport solutions to the independent education sector, working with numerous independent schools across England, Scotland and Wales. Vectare. Transport made simple