Installations for schools & trusts
CCTV & Access Control for Schools
Every school gate, door and corridor should be safe by design. AIT designs, installs and maintains CCTV and door access control for schools, academies and multi-academy trusts anywhere in the UK — surveyed by our own projects team, installed by our own engineers, and supported long after the last camera goes up.
Seamlessly secure your sites that give your sites comprehensive protection via our CCTV and Door Access Control Systems. As a Paxton Gold Partner, alongside other leading UK Manufacturers, AIT can provide full service, installations and ongoing maintenance of your CCTV and Access Control systems across the East Midlands and UK Wide.
SEAMLESS INTEGRATION
Creating safe spaces to learn & thrive
Go beyond just securing a site. Our systems provide simple, user friendly solutions that offer benefits beyond just ‘securing doors and gates’. Decrease your administration and utility costs with automated reporting and integrated building management functionality. Custom reports can be built with ease about user events, or for individual or groups of doors, along with remote alerts when you’re ‘on the go’. Thanks to Anti-Passback features you can prevent students or unauthorised users from sharing tokens. With our integration platform and central management dashboard, your premises teams and designated users can have full visibility across multiple devices which ensure secure encrypted playback. You can continue to push the boundaries and link your access control systems to your MIS system for a greater added depth of security.
Complete Overall Protection
Cameras, door controllers, gates and intercoms designed as one system — not a patchwork of standalone kit — so nothing on your site is a blind spot.
Easy Integration
New systems work with the infrastructure you already have, from your existing network cabling to your MIS, so you keep what works and replace only what doesn’t.
Centralised Management
One dashboard for every camera and door across every site — ideal for trusts managing security standards centrally while site teams handle the day-to-day locally.
Free Onsite Survey
Every project starts with our team walking your site with you, at no cost and with no obligation — see the full survey details below.
One team for the whole job, anywhere in the UK
From a single primary school entrance to a trust-wide rollout across dozens of sites, AIT handles the complete lifecycle: survey, design, installation, commissioning, staff handover and ongoing maintenance. Because we’re a full education MSP — not just a security installer — your CCTV and access control sit on properly designed network infrastructure, covered by the same IT support team that already knows your school.
IP CCTV systems
high-definition cameras with secure, encrypted recording and playback, positioned to cover entrances, perimeters, corridors and communal spaces.
Door access control
fobs, keypads and card readers on internal and external doors, with per-user and per-group permissions your office staff can manage themselves.
Gates, barriers and intercoms
controlled vehicle and visitor entry with video intercom to reception, so nobody reaches the playground unchecked.
Building integration
lockdown procedures, automated locking schedules for the school day, and reporting that cuts administration for your premises team.
Safeguarding alignment
physical security that complements your safeguarding and filtering and wider security posture, evidenced for governors and inspectors.
Installations are scheduled around the school calendar — half-terms, summer works and INSET days — so learning is never disrupted.
Free Site Survey
Sometimes it’s good to get a new perspective and with our free onsite survey you can benefit from our expert team to help you understand a solution that would work for your school or Trust. We offer all schools and Trusts a free onsite survey with no obligation. Our projects team will walk through your site and help you find a solution that meets your current needs whilst future proofing for any issues down the line.
OFSTED Compliant
With OFSTED turning the screw on security, it’s really important that you have a system that meets DfE compliance but also keeps to your budget and all of your requirements. Our experience team can help support your school to give you immediate and long-term results, supporting you every step of the way.
Full Aftercare Service
Our service goes beyond just the installation and implementation of any CCTV or Access Control services we provide you with. Instead, we continue the relationship to support your new systems beyond the installation phase, providing you with full maintenance, support and warranty assistance.
Your install, planned to the day in AIT Atlas
Security installations fail when they’re run from a whiteboard. Ours are run in AIT Atlas — the operations platform our whole company works from. Navigate. Manage. Deliver.
When your project is approved, it becomes a live project in Atlas with every stage mapped: survey sign-off, cable runs, camera and controller installation, commissioning, and handover training for your office and premises teams. Atlas’s Rota module schedules the right engineers against your school calendar — so if your trust needs, say, six sites cabled and commissioned across a summer holiday, you can see exactly which week each site is booked, and our Fleet-managed vans turn up when the plan says they will. Because Atlas also runs our people, projects, schools and technology operations day to day, the engineer who commissioned your system is the same team your site is assigned to for aftercare — nothing is handed to a stranger.
Your school sees the schedule too: agreed milestones, what’s completed, and what’s booked next. No chasing, no surprises on results day.
(Any dates or site counts shown in page mock-ups are illustrative, never live data.)
Every camera accounted for, per site, in AIT Ordering
A trust-wide security rollout can mean hundreds of cameras, controllers, readers and door kits across multiple sites — and a finance office that needs to know where every pound and parcel is. AIT Ordering tracks the whole journey from quote to purchase order to delivery, per site.
Your quote becomes a PO you can approve online; every line of hardware is then tracked through our supplier management and catalogue, and deliveries are logged against the individual school they’re destined for. A trust finance lead can see, for example, that Site A’s 12 cameras and 8 door controllers have arrived and are awaiting the installation week booked in Atlas, while Site B’s kit is due Thursday — illustrative figures, but exactly the kind of per-site clarity the platform gives you. When auditors ask what was bought, for which school, at what price, the answer is already written down.
Ordering is one of the four platforms every AIT school gets as part of the service — alongside AIT Horizon, Helpdesk Reporting and AIT Atlas — all reached from one login at the Customer Portal.
Illustrative demo data
Security that fits your setting
Primary schools
simple, office-manageable door entry and gate control that keeps small teams in charge without adding admin.
Secondary schools
site-wide CCTV coverage, anti-passback access control and MIS-linked permissions for larger, busier campuses.
Multi-academy trusts
central standards, per-site delivery: one specification, one dashboard, one procurement trail across the whole trust.
Independent schools
discreet, estate-sympathetic installations with the governance and reporting bursars expect.
LETS TALK
Get in touch
We understand the unique needs and challenges that are faced by schools, and we are all about finding a solution that works for you. Get in touch with our friendly team to have a chat about how we can support you on your digital journey.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 0115 9170 197 and ask for the projects team, or book your free, no-obligation site survey today.
CCTV and access control for schools — common questions
Yes. AIT supports schools and trusts UK-wide — 249 schools and 20 trusts and counting — and our projects team surveys, installs and maintains security systems anywhere in the UK. Travel and logistics are planned into your project schedule in AIT Atlas, so distance never affects delivery.
Wherever possible we schedule invasive work — cable runs, door hardware, drilling — into half-terms, summer works and INSET days, with quieter commissioning tasks handled around the school day. Your installation plan in AIT Atlas is agreed against your school calendar before anyone arrives on site, so you always know which spaces are affected and when.
It needs to be, and we design for it: signage, retention settings, restricted and encrypted playback, and per-user permissions so only designated staff can view footage. We’ll also help you document the system for your policies and inspections — physical security is part of the same compliance picture as your safeguarding and filtering provision.
We are a Paxton Gold Partner for access control and work with other leading UK manufacturers for CCTV, so your system is specified on merit for your site and budget rather than tied to a single brand. Every quote itemises the exact hardware, and you can track it from quote to purchase order to delivery in AIT Ordering.
The relationship doesn’t end at handover. Your system is covered by our full aftercare service — maintenance, support and warranty assistance — delivered by the same IT support team that looks after the rest of your school’s technology, and reachable through the Customer Portal.