A school pilot, with clear steps and private by design
We are starting with a small number of schools. A pilot lets your staff try SafeCircle with a defined group of students, and decide together with us whether it helps.
- Sent to parent
- Category and a one-sentence reason
- Message text
- Stayed on the phone
- Sent to SafeCircle
- The short alert only, over an encrypted connection
Who the pilot is for
A pilot suits a school or school group that wants to support student safety online and is willing to test it carefully. It is a good fit if you have a named person who can lead it, and a senior colleague who can sign the data processing agreement.
Schools are invoiced directly, as one invoice for the school. Families are not billed per parent.
Warning
Safeguarding comes first
SafeCircle supports your staff. It does not replace your safeguarding policy, your reporting procedures, your designated safeguarding lead or professional judgment. An alert is a reason to look and to follow your own process, which may mean talking with the student, involving a parent or guardian, or contacting child protection services. If a child is in immediate danger, contact the emergency services.
What a pilot includes
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School dashboards
An overview of alerts and trends across the school, with CSV export of alerts and insights.
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Roles and permissions
Owners and admins set roles. Teachers have a default role, and you can create custom roles with only the permissions each one needs, such as seeing alerts or analytics. Counselors and other staff can get a custom role.
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Roster import
Import the student roster and organise students into classrooms.
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Alert filters
Filter alerts by classroom, student, category, risk level, status and date range, and mark them open or resolved.
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School policies
Choose how staff are notified, require two-factor authentication for staff, and keep an audit log of school changes.
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The same explainable alerts
Each alert is the same alert a family would see: a risk level, a category, a short reason and the app. Staff do not see full message histories.
The steps
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Request
Send a request through Book a demo or Contact. Tell us about your school and what you hope to learn.
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Call
A short call to walk through alerts, what staff see, and what stays on each student’s phone. Bring your questions, including the hard ones about privacy.
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Data processing agreement
Before any student data is imported, we agree a data processing agreement that sets out what we process, for what purpose and for how long.
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Small group pilot
Start with a small, defined group of classrooms or students, for an agreed period, with named staff using the dashboard.
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Review
At the end we review together: what worked, what did not, and whether to continue, adjust or stop. You can leave at any point.
What we need from your school
- A named lead who runs the pilot and is the contact for us.
- A decision-maker who can sign the data processing agreement.
- A short list of the staff who need access, and their roles.
- A roster for the pilot group, with only what is needed to match students to classrooms.
- Phones in the pilot group that families have agreed to set up with the Android child app.
- Staff time for a short introduction and regular feedback during the pilot.
What stays private
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Message text stays on the device
Horizon reads messages on the student’s phone. The text of a message is never sent to SafeCircle, and it is never shown in the school dashboard.
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Only the alert is sent
Only the alert leaves the phone: a risk level, a category and a one-sentence reason, over an encrypted connection.
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Designed with GDPR principles in mind
Our design follows GDPR principles. It is not a certification, and we do not claim education-specific compliance. Your legal team should review the agreement before you sign.
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Governed by agreement
School data is handled under the school agreement and its data processing agreement. Details are in the Trust Center.
Pricing
School pricing is custom. It depends on the number of students and the scope of the pilot, and it is invoiced to the school. We do not publish a price list for schools yet.
Request a school pilot
Tell us about your school and we will reply with the next step. Pilots are limited, so the sooner you write, the sooner we can talk.
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