HR for education providers.

HR for a safeguarding-first workforce.

Education carries HR demands that few other sectors share: safeguarding sits behind every hiring decision, much of the workforce is term-time-only, sector pay frameworks and TUPE on academy conversions add complexity, and the mix of teaching and support staff means several different sets of terms in one organisation.

We work with schools, academies, nurseries and training providers to put safe-recruitment processes, compliant term-time and fixed-term contracts and robust policies in place, and to handle the conduct, capability and restructuring matters that arise. Practical, plain-English advice on a fixed fee.

Add the annual updates to safeguarding guidance, maintaining a single central record, and the casual, cover and early-career arrangements that sit alongside permanent staff, and the administrative load is real. We help you keep recruitment, records and contracts compliant and inspection-ready year-round. From safer-recruitment paperwork to the contracts that cover teaching, support, cover and early-career roles, we keep the whole workforce on a consistent, compliant footing. It is the kind of detail an inspection notices, and exactly the sort of thing we take off your plate.

Retained HR support

Day-to-day HR for your team. Disciplinaries, sickness, contracts, the lot. Email and phone access to me. Priced on your team size.

HR compliance audit

One-off review of your contracts, handbook, policies and processes. Written report. Priority fix list. Priced on a call.

HR Compliance Programme

Six-month fixed-fee programme to put your HR foundations in place from scratch. Priced on your team size.

Why Beagle HR.

We are a founder-led HR consultancy serving SMEs across Surrey and the wider UK. You deal with Dan and the Beagle HR team directly, not a call centre and not a different adviser every time. Advice comes in plain English, fees are fixed and agreed up front, and because we only take on a limited number of businesses at once, you get a partner who genuinely knows your sector and your team.

It starts with a free 15-minute review, where we listen, tell you honestly what you need and what you do not, and agree a fixed fee before any work begins. No hourly clock, no lock-in on the ongoing retainer, just a clear plan and someone who picks up the phone.

We work across many sectors, so the advice you get is grounded in how businesses like yours actually operate, not generic theory. Whatever lands on your desk, an awkward grievance, a tricky exit, a restructure, or simply a question you are not sure about, you get a straight answer, a clear next step, and the documents or process to back it up.