Daily logs, incidents, safeguarding — recorded your way, in minutes, with no template lock-in. Every entry maps to an Ofsted Quality Standard, so the evidence assembles itself while your team does the work that matters.
No lock-in. Pay monthly, cancel anytime. AI included as standard.
Most children's-home software is a decade or two old. You're locked into their templates, their contracts, and an AI bill bolted on the side. Hearth is built the other way round.
Create any form or log yourself, in minutes — fields, dropdowns, sign-offs, the lot. No support ticket, no waiting on a vendor, no cap on how much you can create.
Voice-to-log, weekly summaries and pattern-spotting come as standard. Not a £30–80 monthly add-on stacked on top of your bill — part of the product, for everyone.
Pay monthly and leave whenever you like. No two or three-year contract to get a fair price — and free, guided migration if you're moving across from another system.
Ofsted expects always-on readiness, not a four-week scramble before a visit. Hearth turns everyday recording into the evidence the SCCIF asks for.
Your registered manager builds the records the home actually uses — daily logs, key-work sessions, night checks, incident forms — and tags each to a Quality Standard.
Staff record at the point of care on any device, in under 30 seconds. Every entry is timestamped, attributed, and held in a tamper-evident audit trail.
When the inspector asks, the evidence is already sorted — grouped by Quality Standard and ready to export. Serious events auto-draft a Regulation 40 notification.
What changes when you move to Hearth.
| Typical incumbent | Hearth | |
|---|---|---|
| Build your own records | Limited; vendor builds templates | Unlimited, self-serve, in minutes |
| AI features | Paid add-on, £30–80/mo extra | Included as standard |
| Contract | Cheaper price needs 2–3 years | Monthly, cancel anytime |
| Moving your data in | Your problem | Free, guided migration |
| Evidence for inspection | Export, then assemble | Assembled by Quality Standard as you go |
Excluding VAT. AI included on every plan. No setup fee, and no contract required.
Running several homes? Group pricing available. Larger or specialist settings — secure, SEN, family assessment — get a tailored quote.
The 9 standards from the Children's Homes Regulations 2015. Tag a form once, and every entry made on it becomes evidence under that standard — automatically.
Yes. Hearth is built specifically for children's residential homes in England, around the Children's Homes Regulations 2015 and the Social Care Common Inspection Framework — not adapted from adult-care software.
Yes. We migrate your historical records across for you, free, as part of onboarding — so you're not starting from an empty system or copying anything by hand.
Records are UK-hosted, encrypted, and held with a full audit trail of who recorded and viewed what. Children's records are never deleted, only archived, in line with statutory retention.
No. Recording is designed for staff of any digital confidence — a few taps on a phone at the point of care. If you can use a messaging app, you can use Hearth.
It drafts logs from your voice or shorthand, summarises a young person's week, and surfaces patterns for Annex A — but it never submits a record on its own. A person always reviews and signs off.
Correct. Pay monthly and leave whenever you like. An annual plan is there if you'd like a discount, but it's never required to get a fair price.
A 20-minute demo with your actual forms in mind. No obligation, no contract, no pressure.