Child Safety

Draft published 11 August 2026 · factually expanded 25 August 2026 · Progress Path Ltd · provisional, awaiting UK solicitor review

About this page. Progress Path is currently in a pre-launch, Founding Family testing phase. This is a starting draft written in plain English so you know what we do with your information now, while we test the book and app. It has not yet been reviewed by a solicitor, and it will be replaced with a fuller policy before public launch. If anything here is unclear, email admin@progresspath.uk and we will answer directly.

Who this site is for

This website is built for parents, guardians, and professionals working with children, such as teachers and fostering agency staff. The sign-up forms on this site are intended to be completed by an adult, on behalf of their family, school or agency, not by a child.

If a child has contacted us directly

If you believe a child has submitted their own information through this site without a parent or guardian’s knowledge, please email admin@progresspath.uk and we will remove it promptly.

How Progress Path is designed

Progress Path, the book and the app, are designed to be used by a child together with a parent, guardian or carer, not by a child alone. The method is built around connection, recognition and reflection between an adult and a child, always with adult involvement.

Not a clinical or crisis service

Progress Path is not a clinical intervention, a diagnostic tool, or a crisis service. It does not replace professional support. If you are worried about a child’s safety or wellbeing, please contact your local authority, your child’s school, or, in the UK, the NSPCC helpline.

Schools and fostering agencies

We are inviting a small number of schools and fostering agencies to help us test Progress Path with children who may have SEND or SEMH needs. This is a collaborative testing relationship, not a clinical or therapeutic service, and any safeguarding concerns remain the responsibility of the school or agency’s own safeguarding procedures at all times.

Every Founding School partnership is parent-led. A parent invites and approves the school, chooses what the school can see, and can withdraw that access at any time. A school cannot activate or end a family’s packs, change rewards or goals, or override a parent’s authority over the account.

Progress Path information is never used as the sole basis for a behaviour sanction, a SEND referral, a SEMH assessment, a safeguarding determination, an exclusion, or any other formal decision about a pupil. It can support a conversation between family and school, but a trained professional always weighs it alongside the child’s wider circumstances, using the school’s own procedures.

Contact

Questions or concerns about child safety on this site: admin@progresspath.uk.

Added 25 August 2026. The section below describes, factually, what the Progress Path app now does with information during Founding Family staging testing. It is a plain-English description of the system as built, not legal advice. It remains provisional and has not been reviewed or approved by a solicitor. Where a legal question is still open, it is marked as awaiting UK solicitor review.

How the app protects children (staging testing)

Progress Path is designed for children aged 4 to 16 to use together with a parent, guardian or carer, and the app includes child-facing screens. This is how that is protected in the system as built:

A parent-controlled account model. The account, the setup answers, the packs and the rewards are controlled by the adult. A four-digit grown-up code separates the adult side from the child side. The child's side is always positive: it never shows scores, concern lists or observation notes.
Child device codes and restricted access. A child's device connects only through a code the parent generates. It can see only that child's own day, rewards, messages and own media, through a fixed, narrow set of operations checked by our server on every request. It cannot see siblings, other families, adult notes or settings.
Adult permissions and revocation. Invited adults see only the children and permission level the parent chose. The parent can revoke an invited adult, and can cancel every child device code, at any time, with immediate effect.
Private media. Photographs, documents and voice notes live in private storage. A child's device can open only that child's own items, streamed by the server for that session; nothing is ever publicly accessible.
No blanket school access. Blanket school access to a family account is prohibited by design. A school could only ever receive the limited, specific information a parent chooses to share, and that model has not launched publicly (see Data Use).
No automatic reporting, no scanning. Progress Path does not monitor or scan your family's private content, and it does not automatically report possible safeguarding concerns to schools or to anyone else. Responsibility for a child's safety remains with the adults and professionals around the child. Any future change to this position would require its own necessity, proportionality, safeguarding and privacy assessment first.
Reporting a safety concern about Progress Path. If you see anything in the app or on this site that worries you about a child's safety, email admin@progresspath.uk; during testing you will get a direct, personal reply.
The boundary. Progress Path supports family connection and routine. It is not an emergency service and not part of statutory safeguarding. If a child is at immediate risk call 999; for advice contact your local authority, the NSPCC helpline (0808 800 5000) or, for children, Childline (0800 1111).

What still needs formal review

The scope of the ICO Children's Code as it applies to the app, the parental authority model, the age assurance approach and the Online Safety Act 2023 position are awaiting a children's data protection impact assessment and UK solicitor review. Nothing on this page claims that compliance with the Children's Code or Article 8 has been legally approved.

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