The app
How it could fit together.
Somewhere that shows what needs you today. Somewhere that holds every date. Somewhere the forms and reports live together. And the parents who have done it before you.
This is a proof of concept. Nothing is built, and very little is settled. There are only a handful of screens so far, enough to show one way the app could be arranged, not the way it will be: how many sections there are, what they are called and what sits inside each one are all still open questions.
If you are raising a child with SEND, or you work alongside families who are, this is the stage where saying what is wrong counts for most. There is a page that sets out the ways you could help, from a single reply to reading something over before it is written.
Today
What needs you
Next appointment
SoonWhere, who, and what to bring.
Needs you this week
DueForms with a deadline, and how far through you are.
Nothing else
Everything not urgent stays out of the way until you go looking.
Diary
Every date
Clinics and reviews
Appointments with the notes from last time attached.
School meetings
Annual reviews and anything with the SENCo.
Waiting on a date
Referrals with no date yet, chased so you don't have to.
Papers
The vault
Live forms
In progressClaims and renewals, with last year's answers carried over.
Filed
SavedEHCPs, reports and award letters, shareable in a tap.
Getting ready
TaggedTag what you want to take to a meeting or an appeal, and have it together before the day.
Community
Your groups
Tribunals & Appeals
Parents who have been through it.
School Transitions
Getting a move right before it becomes a crisis.
Just Here to Listen
A quieter corner, no advice required.
Structure only. Tap a tab, or use the left and right arrow keys.
The vault
The part we have thought about hardest.
Keeping every letter, plan and report together is the piece families ask for first, so it has a page of its own: what it would hold, and the ideas we are still weighing up.
See the document vault
How it should feel
The rules the app gets built to.
Quiet by default
One screen, one question
Today tells you what needs you. Everything else waits until you go looking for it.
Never ask twice
It remembers what you said
An answer you've already given comes back to you, not a blank box.
Yours to take away
Your records leave with you
Everything you put in is exportable. If ARI stops being useful, nothing is held hostage.
See it as it comes together.
The waitlist hears about each new piece first, before it goes on the site.