For multi-academy trusts and the schools within them
CalmCompliance is where trusts run the day-to-day of their estate: the checks, planned maintenance, policies, risks and training that keep buildings safe, warm and open. Every school in one place, scored against the new School Estate Management Standards, and ready for the MYEE annual return.
Trusted by schools & trusts
Trust oversight
Most trusts still pull compliance together by hand, chasing schools for spreadsheets, then stitching them into something the board can read. CalmCompliance does it the other way round. The work happens at each school, and the trust view assembles itself: live status across fire, asbestos, legionella, training, policies and planned maintenance, for every site, all the time.
What's changed
From autumn 2026, every responsible body files an annual return through MYEE (Manage Your Education Estate), declaring how it meets the School Estate Management Standards (SEMS), the DfE's new four-level framework, built on the long-standing GEMS guidance. It's light-touch and self-assessed; there are no fines. But the direction is clear: estate management is now measured, reported, and increasingly tied to funding. Clean data is rewarded; weak data quietly costs you.
Good Estate Management for Schools. The guidance.
The textbook
The four-level standard you're measured against. Aim for Level 3.
The syllabus
The portal where you submit your return.
The exam hall
Your yearly self-assessment. First one autumn 2026.
The exam
The return itself is easy. Assembling clean, current evidence across every school, by hand, every year, is the part that hurts. That's the part we remove.
From data to the return
Every SEMS requirement maps to something a school already manages. CalmCompliance captures it once, in the right place, with dates and evidence attached, then scores it and rolls it up.
Policies, risk assessments, the asset register, condition surveys, energy data and statutory checks, each in the right module, evidenced and dated.
Every site rated Level 1–3 across the eleven areas, with any statutory gap flagged.
Aggregate across all schools for the trust or local-authority picture.
Produce a submission-ready return for MYEE, adapting to the official template once DfE publishes it.
The platform
Free readiness check
Could you prove it tomorrow?
Most teams only find the gaps when someone asks. This finds them first: a readiness score, your biggest gaps, and a plan for each, in about three minutes.
Why trusts choose us
Wonde syncs staff lists from Arbor, Bromcom and other MIS systems automatically. Single sign-on, SharePoint, Microsoft and Google keep records current without double entry.
Not a trust?
Everything here scales down. A standalone school gets the same SEMS scoring, the same statutory checks running on time, and the same return-ready evidence, just for one site, at one straightforward price for the complete package.
Who's behind it
CalmCompliance is built by veteran edtech founders. Between us we've supported thousands of schools, so we understand how schools and trusts actually buy: the budget cycles, the approval steps, the start-of-year crunch. We build the commercial side around that, not against it.
Schools get everything, not a stripped-back tier. One price covers the full platform for the year, scaled to the size of your school.
The complete package, scaled to the size of your school. Every layer included.
Pricing scales with the number of schools, plus trust-level extras.
Optional add-on
Automatically keeps your staff list current, no manual upkeep. Per school.
Flexible terms: align contracts to your budget cycle, sign now and pay later, or fix pricing over a multi-year contract. Just ask.
Ask us anything about SEMS, MYEE, or how CalmCompliance fits your trust.
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Book a demo and we'll show you your schools, scored against SEMS, with the annual return already taking shape.
