How it works.
Five points in a placement, and what happens at each one. The second and third columns matter more than the description: who sees what is the whole design.
The journey.
- Before they arrive
The house stops being a stranger
A social worker or the home sends a link to the public tour. Photographed rooms, the faces on the team, what a normal day looks like, and what their rights are. No account, no login, nothing personal in it.
The young person sees
A look around the house on their own phone, as many times as they like.
Staff see
One link. Nothing to set up per young person, and nothing that identifies anybody.
- The first hour
A guide made for one person
The home issues a personalised welcome guide: their room, their key worker, the things that matter on day one. It opens through a single-use link that expires, and the link redirects before the guide renders so the code never lands in the address bar.
The young person sees
Their name, their room, their key worker, and a page that closes itself afterwards.
Staff see
Issue it, see whether it was opened, revoke it in one tap if the phone is lost.
- The first weeks
Somewhere to put it down
An account of their own. A daily check-in that takes one tap and keeps no score. A private space nobody on the staff team can open. A calm corner for the evenings that get loud.
The young person sees
A private space. Genuinely private, not private until a manager asks.
Staff see
Whether somebody checked in. Never what they wrote, and never a count of anything.
- Ongoing
A plan they own
A safety plan written with a key worker in a session, not filled in by an adult afterwards. Warning signs, what helps, safe people, safe places, reasons to stay safe. The young person can change it any time without asking.
The young person sees
Their own words, editable, and theirs to show or not show.
Staff see
A prompt when a review is due, and the session itself recorded as key work.
- When they move on
They take it with them
A young person leaving can take a copy of what is theirs. What the home needs to keep, it keeps under its own retention rules. What was private stays private after they have gone.
The young person sees
A copy of their plan and their own writing, to keep.
Staff see
A clean handover, and a record of care that survives the placement ending.
Inside the young person’s app.
Four things, done properly, in one calm place. Nothing here counts, scores or rewards.
Have a look around
Tap a door to go in.
Front door
Your guide · What happens next
Living room
Stories · Games · My space
Kitchen
Life skills · Mealtimes
Your room
About me · People in my life
The office
Your rights · Key worker
Garden
Calm corner
See it on your own home’s content.
Thirty minutes, your rooms, your team, your words.