SEND Assessment Platform

Assessment records that hold up to scrutiny

A secure web platform for recording, reviewing and tracking SEND assessments. Built for early years and education settings that hold sensitive information about children and need to prove they look after it properly.

Most settings still track SEND assessments on paper, in a shared spreadsheet, or in a filing cabinet somebody has the key to. That works right up until you need to show progress over time, hand over to a new keyworker, or answer a question about who saw what and when.

The Problem

What settings are working around today

Paper that cannot travel

Records live in one building. A child moves setting and the history does not follow them.

Spreadsheets nobody can audit

No history of edits, no access control, and one copy emailed around until nobody knows which is current.

Progress you cannot show

Funders, inspectors and parents ask what changed over the year. Reconstructing that from paper takes days.

Data you are responsible for

Assessment notes about a child are special-category data under UK GDPR. A shared drive is not a defensible answer.

Live Demo

Click through it yourself

No sign-up, no sales call first. Pick a role and use the real interface. Everything you change stays in your browser and you can reset it whenever you like.

Open the live demo

Every child, practitioner and record in the demo is invented. It contains no real data about anyone.

What It Does

The parts that do the work

Structured assessments

Record observations against a consistent framework so results mean the same thing across staff and across settings.

Progress over time

Every assessment is kept, so a child's history is one screen rather than a folder search.

Review and approval

Practitioners submit, managers review, return for changes or approve. The workflow is built in rather than done over email.

Auto-save while you work

Assessments save as they are filled in, because they get written up between sessions and interruptions happen.

Full audit trail

Who created, edited, submitted and approved each record, with timestamps.

Works on the devices you have

Usable on a phone or tablet in the room, and on a desktop for reporting.

Who Uses It

Three roles, different views

Practitioner

Opens a child, records and edits an assessment, saves a draft and submits it for review.

Setting manager

Reviews submitted assessments, returns them for changes or approves them, and manages staff in their setting.

Platform administrator

Manages settings, users and platform configuration across the organisation.

Data Protection

Built for the data it holds

Assessment notes about a child are special-category personal data. The platform was designed around that from the start, and reviewed for security before it went live.

Child data encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM
Defence in depth: access is checked at every layer behind the interface, not only in front of it
Microsoft sign-in, so staff accounts follow your existing joiners and leavers process
Complete audit trail of access and changes
Hosted in the UK, so the data never leaves the jurisdiction it is governed by
Documented key escrow and offboarding runbooks, written before they were needed
Structured security review completed before go-live
Community Tech is ICO registered (ZC115548) and Cyber Essentials certified
How It Works

How you would actually get this

The platform runs in production today for a children's SEND charity. No two organisations assess in exactly the same way, so it is configured around your framework rather than sold as a fixed box.

  1. Look at the demo

    Click through it and decide whether the shape is right before we speak. That costs you nothing and about fifteen minutes.

  2. A conversation about your framework

    What you assess, who records it, who signs it off, and what you have to report on. Usually an hour.

  3. A written scope and a fixed price

    What gets built, what it costs and how long it takes, in plain English. If you take it elsewhere afterwards, that is fine.

  4. Build, review, go live

    You see it working as it is built. Data protection paperwork, security review and handover documentation come as part of it, not as an extra.

Tell us how your setting assesses

If you record SEND assessments on paper or in a spreadsheet and you have started to worry about it, that is the conversation. No obligation and no pressure.