AI-enhanced safeguarding
Safeguarding software that spots what humans miss
“Six separate notes from four members of staff, and Signal showed me the pattern in thirty seconds. We'd have found it months later.”
Syncs pupils and staff from your MIS
+ 60 more via WondeJoining the dots
Six notes. Four members of staff. One pattern.
Each concern on its own looks minor, so it gets logged and filed. Signal reads every record across your setting and puts the accumulation in front of your DSL, with the next step your own policy expects.
- Patterns across staff, classes and terms, not one chronology
- Next steps that cite your own safeguarding policies
- Child protection status from your MIS, visible to DSLs only
12 Sep · Class teacher
No coat again in the rain. Said mum forgot.
26 Sep · Lunchtime supervisor
Ate very quickly and asked for seconds twice.
9 Oct · Teaching assistant
Fell asleep during phonics. Says they stay up with the baby.
17 Oct · Class teacher
Same uniform all week, noticeably unwashed.
4 Nov · School office
Collected late, third time this half term.
21 Nov · Teaching assistant
Hungry at breakfast club, took food home in a pocket.
Pattern spotted for your DSL
6 low-level concerns, 4 staff, 10 weeks. Possible neglect indicators across hunger, hygiene and supervision.
Your safeguarding policy suggests a DSL review and an Early Help conversation with the family.
Illustrative example. Names and notes are invented.
“We were already recording concerns properly — that was never the problem. What we weren't doing was joining them up. Signal took six low-level notes logged by four different members of staff across a term and put them in front of me as one pattern. That's a conversation with a family we would otherwise have had months later, and it took thirty seconds to see.”
Closed AI
AI that works for your school, and only your school
Safeguarding records are the most sensitive data a school holds. Signal's AI is closed: your records are never used to train a model, and never shared with OpenAI, ChatGPT or anyone else.
- Never used to train a model
- Prompts and responses are not used to train, retrain or improve any AI model, ours or anyone else's.
- Not shared with OpenAI or ChatGPT
- Signal runs on Microsoft Azure OpenAI, a closed enterprise service. Your records are not available to OpenAI, to other customers or to any third party.
- Processed in the UK, kept nowhere
- AI requests are processed within the UK. The model is stateless, so nothing is retained once the response comes back.
- No human review of your prompts
- Signal is in Microsoft's managed customer programme, so prompts and responses are never stored for human review.
AI-enhanced, not AI-decided. Signal suggests categories, actions and next steps. Your staff accept, edit or ignore them. The safeguarding decision always stays with a person.
Where a safeguarding record goes when AI reads it
Closed boundary, UK
- Your schoolStaff record a concern
- SignalMicrosoft Azure, UK regions
- Azure OpenAIStateless, nothing retained
Never reaches
- OpenAI
- ChatGPT
- Model training
- Other customers
- UK GDPR & DPA 2018Built to UK data law
- UK data hostingMicrosoft Azure UK regions
- DPIA supportDocumentation ready to use
- Passkeys & audit logsEncryption, MFA, full history
See Signal in action
Watch a quick tour before you try it yourself.
Keep children safe
Catch the concern that only shows up over time
The worries that matter most rarely arrive as one serious incident. Signal watches the whole record so a slow build is seen while there is still time to act.
Reduce workload
Hours of safeguarding admin, done in seconds
Signal drafts the paperwork for you to check, rather than leaving you to write it from scratch at the end of the day.
Insights and reporting
Evidence for governors and Ofsted, without the spreadsheet
Incident trends across terms and year groups, comparisons between cohorts, and exports ready for your next governors' meeting.
- Trends across terms and year groups
- Plain English questions answered by the AI assistant
- Export to Excel for governors and Ofsted
Ensure consistency
Every member of staff handles a concern the right way
A concern raised on a Friday afternoon gets the same considered response as one raised on Monday morning.
Stay compliant
Safeguarding policies that keep pace with KCSIE
Guidance changes. Review dates come round. Signal tracks both, so nothing lapses quietly between inspections.
Automate your workflow
Set the safeguarding rule once. Signal does the rest.
Decide what happens when a concern meets your criteria, and stop relying on someone remembering at the end of a long day.
Staff safeguarding
Allegations about staff, handled with the same rigour
Concerns about adults need different rules. Signal records them separately, keeps them out of the wrong hands automatically, and gives you the evidence you need if it goes to the LADO.
- The subject never sees their own recordA member of staff is excluded from any allegation about them, at the database, even if they are a DSL. There is no setting to forget.
- Anyone can raise it, only leaders can read itEvery member of staff can report a concern about a colleague. Only your safeguarding leads can open or act on it.
- The same policy grounding and audit trailStaff cases link to your policies, take document uploads with summaries, and keep a full edit history.
- Subject access requests
- 1 click
- Every record for a person compiled, with third-party information redacted automatically
- GOV.UK guidance checks
- Weekly
- A new edition lands and you are told exactly which of your policies it affects
- MIS systems connected
- 60+
- Direct with Arbor and Bromcom, everything else through Wonde
Switching from CPOMS or MyConcern is easy
We handle the import for you. Your records migrate securely with full history preserved, and our Pay for One Promise means you never pay for two systems at once.
What to look for in safeguarding software
Most systems record concerns competently. The difference shows in what happens next.
Still scoping the market? Read our buyer's guide, or see our due diligence page for security, sub-processors and data handling.
- Does it show you patterns, or just store records?
- A chronology tells you what happened to one child. Signal analyses concerns across your whole setting, surfacing the accumulation of low-level worries that rarely look serious in isolation.
- Is our data used to train AI?
- No. Signal's AI is closed. It runs on Microsoft Azure OpenAI in the UK, and your records are never used to train or improve any model. They are not available to OpenAI, ChatGPT, other customers or any third party, and nothing is retained by the model after it responds.
- Is your policy actually driving the response?
- Signal reads your safeguarding policies and references them when suggesting next steps, so a concern raised on a Friday afternoon gets the same considered response as one raised on Monday morning.
- How much admin does it create?
- Subject access requests compile in one click with third-party information redacted automatically. Transfers, document summaries and action plans are drafted for you to review rather than written from scratch.
- Can you record concerns about staff, not just students?
- Yes. Staff allegations are recorded separately and are readable only by your safeguarding leads. Anyone can raise one, and the member of staff a record is about never sees it — even if they are a DSL themselves.
- Where does your data live, and how is it priced?
- Signal is hosted in UK Azure regions and built to UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 requirements. Pricing is a flat rate per pupil, per year — no per-user charges, no feature tiers, and unlimited staff accounts.
Judge Signal on a fully populated demo school
Choosing safeguarding software is a decision you live with every day. Try it with realistic data first, on your own time.
- Ready in under a minute, no sales call
- Unlimited staff accounts, priced per pupil
- Never pay for two systems when you switch
Closed AINever used for trainingProcessed in the UKNot shared with OpenAI