This comparison is based on information published at tes.com, edukey.co.uk and provisionmap.co.uk (Edukey Education Ltd became part of Tes in March 2016 — "Provision Map" is the same product marketed under both names) and on OMNIA's own documentation, last verified 26 July 2026. Pricing: Tes's own product page currently shows no fixed price, only "Contact us to request a quote." A third-party listing (EdTech Impact) separately cites "from £795/year" with no per-pupil or term breakdown given. Figures previously shown on this site (£675/yr on a 3-year term; ~£500/yr for a single module) traced to an old Edukey order-form PDF that no longer resolves — it now redirects to the Tes homepage — so neither could be re-verified and neither has been carried forward. If you believe any information is inaccurate, please contact hello@omnia-inclusion.com and we will update it promptly. This page is intended to help schools make an informed choice — not to disparage a competitor we respect.
OMNIA vs Provision Map — an honest comparison
Formerly Edukey, now part of Tes — same product, one comparison.
Provision Map has been a fixture of UK SEND departments since 2005, under the Edukey name and — since Tes acquired Edukey in 2016 — under the Tes brand. Whichever name you know it by, it's the same underlying product, with a strong track record in provision mapping, learning plans, and pupil passports. OMNIA is a newer platform, built by a practising SENDCo in 2025, with a focus on AI-assisted planning, international jurisdiction coverage, and a professional referral workflow. This page sets out the differences factually, explains what a provision map actually is, and walks through what switching looks like.
Individual learning plans / IEPs / SEN support plans
Yes
Yes
AI-drafted, cited, fully editable
One-page pupil profile / passport
Yes
Yes
AI co-production, pupil-voice + parent-voice capture
SMART target library
Yes
1,000+ targets (their claim), long-standing bank
Yes
evidence-cited, 417 sources
Assess-Plan-Do-Review cycle
Yes
Yes
Provision costing / value-for-money
Yes
core module
Yes
with Pupil Premium spend split
Review reminders
Yes
automatic
Yes
automated, statutory clock
Instant reports
Yes
cost, time, Pupil Premium, outcomes
Yes
Pupil voice capture
Partial
Yes
secure token links, no login
Parent communication / portal
Partial
School Robins is a staff-to-staff tool, not parent-facing — Edukey's own description: "gathering information from staff in your school". Plan sharing with parents is mentioned generally; no dedicated parent portal is described
Area Dashboard (trust-wide spend/provision view) is standard; the richer 'Connected Insights' cross-product view also requires owning MyConcern and Class Charts
Yes
included — cross-school outcomes, compliance, spend
Transition management
Yes
between schools using the product
Yes
AI plan generation
not listed on product page
not listed on product page
Yes
contextually aware — reads GL and Testwise data alongside provision history, pupil voice and parent voice before generating each plan. Every target includes a 'Why this target?' evidence panel.
Evidence-cited strategy library
not listed on product page
Yes
EEF, NICE, nasen, Hattie + 137 others
DfE AI in SEND guidance alignment (May 2026)
not listed on product page
Yes
explicitly endorsed
Annual review pack generator
Partial
Yes
one-click agenda + reports
Specialist referral workflow + directory
not listed on product page
Yes
in development
EHCP 20-week statutory clock
not listed on product page
Yes
automated
Access arrangements (JCQ / ISEB / IB)
not listed on product page
Yes
EAL, AGT, behaviour & pastoral registers
not listed on product page
Yes
SEN2 census export
not listed on product page
Yes
Wales (full ALN) / Scotland (GIRFEC/SHANARRI plan drafting + SQA Extra Time)
not listed on product page
England focus
Yes
UAE / ADEK jurisdiction
not listed on product page
Yes
native framework
IB World Schools (PYP/MYP/DP/CP)
not listed on product page
Yes
US curriculum (IDEA/504/MTSS)
not listed on product page
Yes
Australia / New Zealand
not listed on product page
not listed on product page
jurisdiction-tagged, framework tooling on roadmap
Microsoft Entra ID SSO + MFA
not listed on product page
No mention of Microsoft Entra ID, Azure AD, or SSO on Provision Map's own product or MAT/trust pages
Yes
SharePoint / Google Drive integration
not listed on product page
Yes
Bring-your-own Azure OpenAI (BYOK)
not listed on product page
Yes
route processing through your own tenant
SIMS / Bromcom / Arbor / iSAMS / Wonde sync
Yes
SIMS, Bromcom, Arbor, iSAMS, Juniper, Engage and Integris listed as supported, plus Wonde integration on request — not SIMS-only
Yes
Assessment platform integrations
Yes
SIMS / Capita listed
Yes
GL Assessment, Testwise, PUMA, MAP, TTRS, and manual entry for EP-administered instruments
School branding
Not listed
Yes
multi-colour palette extracted from your school logo, live preview, WCAG contrast checking
Tamper-evident audit log
not listed on product page
Yes
database-layer enforced
UK GDPR DPA available
Yes
GDPR compliance page published
Yes
DPA published, no NDA required
UAE PDPL addendum
not listed on product page
Yes
UAE Jurisdiction Addendum
Typical annual cost (indicative)
Pricing on application
no fixed rate currently published
From £2,000/year
no multi-year lock-in required
Free trial / demo
Contact to request
Demo available
at omnia-inclusion.com
What Provision Map does well.
Provision Map has two decades in UK SEND management, under both the Edukey and Tes names. Their SMART target library of over 1,000 targets is a genuinely useful resource, and their review reminder system is well regarded by SENDCos in user reviews. Their Connected Insights / Area Dashboard feature gives MAT-level visibility of provision data. Schools transferring pupils between schools that both use Provision Map benefit from automated transition data sharing. If your school is a UK mainstream school looking for a straightforward provision mapping and learning plan tool at a lower price point, Provision Map is a credible option.
Where OMNIA takes a different approach.
OMNIA started from a different question: what does a SENDCo's week actually look like, and how much of it is spent outside provision mapping? The answer is: most of it — EHCP paperwork, annual reviews, parent communication, access arrangements, SEN2 returns, MAT reporting, and defending decisions to inspectors. OMNIA covers all of that in one place, drafts the writing with cited evidence, and gives your MAT a live cross-school view. OMNIA costs more than Provision Map, and that difference is worth understanding before you decide: if provision mapping and learning plans within a UK mainstream school are the whole job, Provision Map may be enough. If it's one square on a much larger board, OMNIA is built for the rest of the board too. We'd rather you choose the right tool than the most expensive one.
Choose Provision Map if…
• You're a single school that mostly needs to map provision, cost it, and print IEPs.
• Your team is already trained on it and speed to competence matters most.
• You're happy on a pure England workflow with no international frameworks.
• Budget is the binding constraint and a single-purpose provision mapping tool fits better than a full platform.
Choose OMNIA if…
• You want AI plan drafting that shows the evidence for every target.
• You need the EHCP 20-week clock, annual reviews, and SEN2 automated.
• You're a MAT that wants one cross-school dashboard, not per-school exports.
• You operate outside England (Wales full ALN, Scotland GIRFEC/SHANARRI plan drafting, UAE, IB, US).
• You want a branded parent portal, not staff-side plan-sharing.
• You're consolidating three or four tools and pricing per-tool is adding up.
What is a provision map, exactly?
A provision map is a single document — usually a table — that records the additional or different support a school provides for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), beyond what is ordinarily available in the classroom. It shows, at a glance, who gets what support, how often, from whom, at what cost, and with what impact.
Provision maps sit at the heart of the graduated response (assess, plan, do, review) described in the SEND Code of Practice (2015). They are the SENDCo's main tool for demonstrating that a school is meeting its statutory duties under the Children and Families Act 2014.
What the SEND Code of Practice expects
Schools must identify pupils needing SEN support and record the provision made for them (Section 6.44).
Provision must be reviewed at least three times a year with the pupil and their parents (Section 6.65).
The SENDCo and governing body must be able to evidence how the SEND budget (including notional SEN funding) is spent.
Provision must be based on evidence of what works, and its impact must be measured.
A worked example
Year 4 pupil, primary need SpLD (dyslexia), currently at SEN support:
Provision
Frequency
Delivered by
Cost / term
Measured by
Nessy Reading & Spelling
4×15 min/wk
TA + independent
£45
Nessy age-equivalent score
Precision teaching (HFW)
3×10 min/wk
Class TA
£180
Words-per-minute chart
Coloured overlays + laptop
All lessons
Class teacher (QFT)
£12
Pupil-voice review
Access arrangements (25% extra time)
All assessments
SENDCo
£0
JCQ Form 8 evidence
A real provision map covers every SEN-support and EHCP pupil in the school, grouped by year or by need, with review dates and RAG-rated impact against each row.
Free provision-map template
The columns above are the minimum viable provision map. If you want to build your own in Excel or Google Sheets, copy this header row:
Pupil | Year | Primary need | Tier (1/2/3) | Provision | Frequency | Delivered by | Cost/term | Start | Review date | Impact (RAG) | Next step
OMNIA generates this table automatically from your MIS roster and plan data, and keeps the review dates, costs, and impact ratings in sync — but a spreadsheet is a perfectly legitimate starting point for a small school.
Migration guide
Switching from Provision Map to OMNIA in 30 days
A practical, week-by-week plan for SENDCos and MATs. Import your existing register, plans, and cost data with the audit trail intact, run the two systems in parallel for a fortnight, and cut over without losing a single review date. There's no multi-year lock-in — a one-year agreement is the default, and you can export everything at any time.
Week 1
Export and audit what you've actually got
Export the SEND register from Provision Map (Reports → Export → CSV).
Export active plans (IEPs / SEN support plans) as CSV or Excel; historic plans go into an 'archive' bucket, not the live import.
Export the provision cost table with staff, frequency, and hourly-rate columns intact.
Audit the register: flag pupils who've left, plans that haven't been reviewed in the last six months, and any duplicate entries.
Nominate a SENDCo owner and a data-side owner (usually the office / MIS lead).
Week 2
Import into OMNIA and map fields
Send exports to onboarding@omnia-inclusion.com; we run the import in a staging tenant first.
We map Provision Map fields to OMNIA's schema — register categories, plan sections, provision types, cost columns, review dates.
You approve the field mapping and any judgment calls (e.g. how 'IEP' text lands in OMNIA's plan sections).
Import is committed to your live tenant. Every historic plan and cost entry is preserved with its original date.
Connect Wonde / SIMS / iSAMS / Go4Schools so the register stays in sync with your MIS from day one.
Weeks 2-3
Parallel run and staff training
Two-week parallel run: staff can view Provision Map read-only, but new writes go into OMNIA.
SENDCo attends a 60-minute live onboarding call; TAs and teachers get a recorded 20-minute walkthrough.
Draft first three AI-assisted plans in OMNIA with a colleague present, so the 'Why this target?' evidence panel becomes familiar.
Set the EHCP 20-week clock for any pupils currently in assessment; import their statutory dates.
Configure the parent portal branding (logo, colours) and send the first test message to a friendly parent.
Week 4
Cut over and archive
Turn off Provision Map writes; keep read-only access for 90 days as an audit fallback.
Export a final PDF snapshot of the Provision Map dashboard and store it in your SharePoint / Drive.
Cancel or downgrade the Provision Map subscription at the next renewal boundary.
Book a 30-day check-in with OMNIA onboarding to review adoption metrics and clean up any orphaned data.
What we handle for you
• CSV / Excel field mapping, including provision-cost columns and staff hourly rates.
• Historic plan text and review date preservation with a full audit trail.
• MIS reconnection via Wonde, SIMS, iSAMS, or Go4Schools.
• Parent portal branding and first-message setup.
• EHCP 20-week clock population for pupils mid-assessment.
• A 30-day post-cutover review with adoption metrics.
Frequently asked
›Is OMNIA more expensive than Provision Map?
Usually, yes. Provision Map is priced for single-module use; OMNIA is a full inclusion platform covering SEND, EAL, AGT, pastoral, access arrangements, MAT reporting, and AI drafting. Schools that only need provision mapping should stay on Provision Map. Schools consolidating three or four tools into one usually save money moving to OMNIA.
›Can I import my existing IEPs and provision data?
Yes. We accept Provision Map CSV / Excel exports and map them to OMNIA's schema during onboarding. Historic plan text, targets, provisions, costs, and review dates all come across with their original dates attached.
›Does OMNIA work outside England?
Yes, at varying depth. Wales is at England-parity (full ALN Act, IDPs, JCQ Form 9). Scotland covers GIRFEC/SHANARRI-aware plan drafting and SQA Extra Time. UAE ADEK, IB (PYP/MYP/DP/CP), and US IDEA/504/MTSS are natively supported. Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Australia and New Zealand are configured at the jurisdiction level with framework-specific tooling on the roadmap.
›Is the AI safe to use with pupil data?
Every outbound AI call is PII-scrubbed before it leaves our server, and schools can bring their own key to route processing through their own tenant. OMNIA is aligned with the May 2026 DfE guidance on AI in SEND support planning.
›Do we need to retrain TAs?
Most TAs need a 20-minute walkthrough. The plan-writing workflow is very similar to Provision Map — the main difference is the AI drafting panel, which most staff find shortens plan-writing by 60-70%.
›Can a MAT migrate all schools at once?
Yes. We run trust-wide rollouts across a half-term with a staggered per-school cut-over and a shared MAT dashboard live from day one.
OMNIA and PAGS — a different kind of comparison.
PAGS is a 2025 BETT and BESA Award winner — the first company to win both awards in the same year. It does something meaningfully different from Provision Map, and something meaningfully different from OMNIA. Adding it to the same table above would misrepresent all three tools. Instead, here is an honest description of what each does and where they sit relative to each other.
What PAGS does.
PAGS is a functional skills assessment platform. It assesses learners across four areas — cognition, communication, SEMH, and literacy — and generates developmental profiles, including developmental age versus actual age comparisons. From those assessment results, PAGS automatically assigns targets, strategies, and resources. It also offers a lesson alignment AI feature that helps teachers connect SEN targets with their lesson plans. PAGS includes provision mapping, one-click IEP generation, progress tracking, and collaboration tools for parents, teachers, and external professionals. It works with schools across Europe and internationally. Their strategy database contains over 600 strategies. Pricing is on application — contact PAGS directly at pagsprofile.com.
Where PAGS and OMNIA overlap.
Both generate targets and strategies for individual learners
Both include provision mapping and IEP/plan generation
Both work with international schools beyond the UK
Where they take different approaches.
DimensionPrimary purpose
PAGSAssessment-led: identify strengths and gaps, then generate targets
Schools across Europe and internationally (their claim)
England (full), Wales (full ALN), Scotland (plan drafting + SQA Extra Time), UAE/ADEK (full), IB, US (IDEA/504/MTSS). NI, Ireland, Australia and NZ are jurisdiction-tagged with framework-specific tooling on the roadmap.
Access arrangements
Not listed on product page
Yes — JCQ, ISEB, IB
Specialist referral workflow
Not listed on product page
Yes — Specialist Support Prompts, in development
Awards
BETT and BESA 2025 — both awards, first company to win both in same year
EdTech Impact listed; Founding School programme open
Pricing
Contact for pricing
From £2,000/year
Can PAGS and OMNIA work together?
PAGS and OMNIA are not direct competitors — they serve different parts of the inclusion workflow. PAGS is strongest at the assessment layer: identifying what a learner needs. OMNIA is strongest at the planning and compliance layer: documenting provision, managing statutory deadlines, and building the evidence trail. A school that uses PAGS for functional skills assessment and OMNIA for plan management, compliance, and specialist referral workflow would have a genuinely comprehensive system. We think that is a legitimate and honest answer about how the two platforms relate to each other.
PAGS feature information sourced from pagsprofile.com, last verified June 2026. PAGS pricing is not published — contact PAGS directly for pricing information. OMNIA does not make any claim about PAGS's clinical validation methodology. The description above reflects what PAGS says about their own product.
Not sure which is right for your school?
We're happy to talk it through honestly, or walk you through a live import on a staging tenant using an anonymised copy of a Provision Map export. Email hello@omnia-inclusion.com or book a demo.
Provision Map feature information sourced from tes.com/en-gb/for-schools/provision-map, last verified 26 July 2026. Edukey and Provision Map are trademarks of their respective owners. OMNIA does not claim that Provision Map lacks any feature not listed on their product pages — only that it is not listed there. If Provision Map has features not covered here, we welcome the correction.