Critical Developments · Pricing

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The estimate uses the published price card below. It is a planning figure rather than a contract.

01 Choose your software

Prices shown are the annual starting prices for a school with 1,000–1,499 pupils.

SENDCo Pack: £1,000 a year. Choose PASSport and DAS Board together and the lower pack price replaces the ordinary two-product saving.

02 Set the institution size
1,000–1,499 pupils · standard price
1 school
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The complete price card

No “contact sales” fog.

Annual, school-wide prices for 1,000–1,499 pupils. Unlimited authorised staff are included.

ProductAnnual price
WorkPane£399
SitRep£499
HP Source£499
PASSport£599
DAS Board£599
SENDCo Pack PASSport + DAS Board£1,000
All five before saving£2,595
Planned standard suite 25% complete-suite saving after launch£1,946
Founding Schools complete suite 30% launch saving£1,817

Founding Schools Offer: the first 20 schools signing by 31 July 2027 receive the 30% complete-suite saving and 20% off their first paid year. After the offer, the planned complete-suite saving is 25% and the first-year reduction ends.

Small-school DAS price: DAS Board is capped at £419 a year for schools with up to 699 pupils before any applicable agreement or trust saving.

Published price check

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Public prices checked 28 August 2026. The main example is a 1,200-pupil school. These are useful reference points, not a claim that differently shaped products are identical.

Whole-school suite

Critical Developments and Student Radar

Critical Developments
£1,817Founding Schools annual suite price
Student Radar
£4,335published annual calculation

58% lower per year. Three-year total: £4,578 against a projected £13,005 — 65% lower.

Student Radar uses an everything-included per-pupil price. Ours is the bounded Founding Schools price; the planned standard suite is £1,946.

Student Radar published pricing

Staff starting point

WorkPane and Asgardian Portal

WorkPane
£399per year
Asgardian Portal
£499per year

20% lower.

Asgardian Portal is primarily for primary schools, so this is a price reference rather than a like-for-like comparison.

Bifrost Systems published pricing

Pupil tracking

PASSport and Smart School Tracking

PASSport
£599per year
Smart School Tracking
£1,995published 1,001+ rate

70% lower.

Published annual price for a similarly sized institution; the products organise tracking differently.

Smart School published pricing
Method, assumptions and source notes

Critical Developments prices are the published standard-school prices before VAT. Student Radar is calculated at £4.25 per pupil for 1,200 pupils with its published 15% saving for 800+ pupils. Its three-year figure assumes that annual price remains unchanged; it is a projection, not a vendor quotation.

Competitor prices, packaging and VAT treatment can change. Follow the source links and obtain a current written quotation before procurement. The Three-Year Fair Price Guarantee applies only to a genuinely comparable written quotation.

Three-Year Fair Price Guarantee

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10% below

We will beat its equivalent three-year total and hold that annual price for the term.

What counts as like for like?

The quote must be written, less than 90 days old and comparable in school size, products, users, support, compulsory setup, integrations and term. Free pilots, charitable subsidies, beta prices and unrelated cross-subsidies are excluded. Every mandatory competitor charge counts. The approved price-beat figure becomes the final contract total; other savings do not apply again. It cannot fall below 65% of our published estimate for the same school, scope and term. If a quote crosses that floor, we will say so before onboarding.

The trial promise

12 teaching weeks. Setup does not count.

The trial begins when the agreed configuration is ready to use.

  • Full chosen productsIncluding the complete suite.
  • No card or surprise invoiceNo automatic conversion.
  • A real test, once per schoolA named school lead and a short set of agreed outcomes keep the trial useful rather than indefinite.
  • Useful onboardingStandard configuration and remote support are part of the trial; the clock starts when access is ready.
  • A clean decisionKeep the agreed configuration if you subscribe; export and close if you do not.

One supported trial is available per school. We will confirm capacity, the success measures and the secure onboarding requirements before any school data is used.

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