Call Parents School strike alert!

June 30, 2011 - PRLog -- Over half a million text messages have been sent to parents as schools closed due to strike action. At the click of a button, schools are using Call Parents (www.callparents.com), an automated notification system, to quickly alert parents of the closures by text message and automated phone call.

One in 12 teachers – some 100,000 – are expected to have walked out of schools in the first national strike in 25 years, closing more than 3,000 schools and partially closing a further 2,200 schools in England and Wales.

Used by more than 2000 primary and secondary schools in the UK and Ireland, Call Parents is an automatic notification system from Contact Group (www.the-contactgroup.com), which enables schools to send messages via e-mail, text message (SMS) and automated phone call.

Stephen Clarke, Managing Director, Contact Group, provider of Call Parents, comments: “To ensure schools keep children safe, it is vital that parents are made aware of school closures at the earliest possible opportunity. By instantly alerting parents, schools can also minimise disruption and confusion for parents and avoid office staff becoming inundated with queries.”

Call Parents reads live pupil contact information direct from the schools management information system (MIS) enabling schools to send specific messages to parents of a specific class, year or group.

Ideal for school closure warnings, Call Parents is used by schools to alert parents about cancellations or delays to events, emergency notifications, parents’ evenings and report cards sent home.

Helping schools achieve significant time and cost efficiencies, Call Parents can be set up to send out automated messages in advance, dramatically reducing the administrative time required during school holiday periods and closures.

For further information on Contact Group please call 0844 448 4422 or email sales@the-contactgroup.com, Lonsdale House, 52 Blucher Street, Birmingham B1 1QU, www.the-contactgroup.com.

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•   www.e-mentoring.co.uk
•   www.lookedaftercall.com/
•   www.termtimetracker.com
•   www.callparents.com
•   www.truancycall.com
•   www.textsomeone.com

Issued: 30.06.11                                                        Ref: 110628-CG002-Strike