Subject Access Requests are one of the heaviest admin burdens a school can face. A single request can mean pulling records from multiple systems, redacting third-party and safeguarding information page by page, and getting everything out inside the statutory one-month deadline. For most schools that adds up to days of office, DPO and SLT time per request, and the requests are only increasing.
Fisar automates the whole process. It collates the records, applies compliant redactions and produces a response ready to send, in minutes rather than days. Every step is logged, so you have a complete audit trail if a parent or the ICO ever questions how a request was handled.
What that means for your school:
- Hours of staff time back on every request
- Statutory deadlines met without the last-minute scramble
- Accurate, consistent redaction of third-party and safeguarding data
- A documented, defensible process for every request
- No specialist training needed
Whether you're a single school or a multi-academy trust handling requests at scale, Fisar turns SARs from a recurring headache into a routine task.
What partners say
South Pennine Academies Trust — Alison Black, CEO
South Pennine's worked with Fisar to develop the application. It has been built with schools in mind from the very start.
DfE (Department for Education)
As quoted by the DfE themselves, Fisar will save between £600m–£800m per year for the government. This equates to around 1.6% of schools' total budgets and will help to eliminate the 5m complaints in the backlog.
