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Fifteen minutes · no card, no contract

Built with a serving RI: twenty years in children’s homes.

GE Grace Ellison Deputy Manager · Maple House
Enhanced DBS valid · Mar 2028
Safeguarding training valid · Nov 2026
Fire safety training 160 days over
Supervision due in 6 days
FILE Demo Care Group · overview
2 homes
99% inspection-ready
staffbook Demo Care Group
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People
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Organisation
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Demo Care Group Today / Overview Search⌘K Evidence pack
InsightsAll homesTo check
2 items have expired.
Across 2 people, both already being chased. The oldest is Fire, 160 days overdue. Open the file
Inspection readiness99%
726 of the 732 things an inspection can ask for are in place today. 6 still to fix.
Alder Lodge6 to fix · 98%
Beechwood Housecomplete · 100%
Expiring next
Training◆ 2 expired
Supervisions◆ 2 overdue
Training▲ 3 in 30 days
Driving licence▲ 1 in 30 days
DBS▲ 2 in 30 days
Latest activity
17 AUGSystem update: compliance items refreshed
17 AUGSafeguarding v3 agreed, 12 of 14
Training in date
96% 126 in date 2 expired 0 not recorded
Renewals forecastnext 6 months
5SEP 8OCT 3NOV 1DEC 3JAN 6FEB
Readiness by section
ALDERBEECH Training97100 Recruitment99100 Supervisions6650 Policies33100
Who needs chasing
GE Grace Ellison · Fire training 160 days overdue
JO James Okonkwo · Safeguarding Children expired Dec 2024

Built for the sector’s 3,900 children’s homes. Priced per home, monthly rolling, cancel any time.

The same records. A very different Friday.

THE SPREADSHEET
In date only if someone remembers to check it
Expiries surface on inspection day, not before
One person knows where everything lives
Versions on three laptops, none of them final
Evidence assembled by hand, the night before
STAFFBOOK
Chases every expiry itself, weeks ahead
Gaps flagged amber before they go red
Whole team sees the same live file
Every change dated and recorded, nothing rewritten
Evidence pack in one click, any day of the year

Everything that goes into a staff file.

Six sections, one file. Every one is something an inspector actually asks for: kept in date, not found on the day.

01
Training & DBS
The full matrix by home, every expiry chased before it lapses.
Training & DBS · Maple House
STAFFSAFEGUARDINGFIRST AIDFIRE SAFETY
Grace Ellison in date in date 160d over
Daniel Mercer in date 12 days in date
Priya Raman in date in date in date
Every expiry has a renewal date worked out: amber ahead of time, chased before it lapses.
02
Safer recruitment
The checks file per person, gaps visible before an inspector finds them.
Safer recruitment · new starter
Jordan Blake · Support Worker · starts 1 September
Application formon file
References, 2 of 2 returnedverified
Right to workchecked 12 August
Enhanced DBS, child workforcecountersigned
Employment history: 3-month gap, 2019explanation requested
Gaps are visible before an inspector finds them, and the explanation is filed next to the gap.
03
Supervisions
Scheduled, recorded, evidenced, on pattern.
Supervisions · Maple House
Pattern: every 6 weeks · recorded and signed by both
Grace Ellison · last held 28 Julyon pattern
Priya Raman · last held 4 Augustnext due 21 Sept
Daniel Mercer · last held 12 Junedue this week
Sam Ogden · last held 1 Auguston pattern
Scheduled, recorded, evidenced. The pattern holds itself, and slipping shows up early.
04
Policies, agreed
Every member of staff signs “read and understood”.
Policies · Safeguarding v3
Safeguarding policy, v3, issued 4 August
12 of 14 agreed
Grace Ellison: read and understood5 August, 08:14
Sam Ogden: read and understood5 August, 21:40
Daniel Mercer: outstandingnudged Monday
Priya Raman: outstandingnudged Monday
Every signature timestamped. You see who is outstanding; Staffbook does the nudging.
05
The home’s checks
Fridge temperatures to fire doors, done and dated.
The home’s checks · today
07:30 Fridge temperature, 3.2°C✓ Grace
08:15 Medication cabinet count✓ Priya
22:00 Fire door sweep✓ Daniel
02:00 Alarm test, waking night✓ Jordan
Weekly Window restrictor checkdue tomorrow
Every check is assigned to whoever actually does it, waking night staff included, not just managers.
06
The evidence pack
One click, one file, everything an inspection asks about your staff.
Evidence pack · Maple House
Compiled Monday 17 August, 09:33. One click, one file.
Training matrix, all homes14 pages
DBS register with renewal dates2 pages
Safer recruitment files, per person14 sections
Supervision log & policy signatures6 pages
Maple-House-evidence-pack.pdf Download

Six sections, kept in date without anyone standing over them.

Fifteen minutes, on a call. No card, no contract.

One person. One screen. Nothing missing.

Open any member of staff and their whole file is one glance. Green means evidenced. Amber means Staffbook is already chasing it.

This is the screen you open when the inspector says “show me”, and the reason you never prepare for that moment again.

Priya Raman · staff file
PR
Priya Raman
Senior Support Worker · Beechwood House · started March 2024
98% COMPLETE
RECRUITMENT
References & right to work
Full employment history
TRAINING
Safeguarding, first aid, medication
DVLA licence: due in 9 days, chased Monday
DBS
Enhanced, child workforce
Expires May 2027
SUPERVISIONS
Last held 4 August
Next due 21 September
12 documents on file View evidence pack →

WHY IT FEELS RIGHT

Built inside children’s homes, not adapted to them.

Staffbook is not HR software with the names changed. It was built alongside a serving Responsible Individual with twenty years in children’s homes. The screens answer what inspections actually ask, because she kept asking.

The rota, painted, not typed.

Pick a shift, click the cells. Hours count themselves, sleep-ins are marked, and any short day flags itself before the week starts.

DAY 1 SE ☾ SUP AL OFF TE
From spreadsheet to system in three minutes.

Paste the training matrix the home already keeps. Staffbook reads names, courses and dates, and takes over the remembering.

One plain email, Monday at 07:00.

Expired, due soon, who has not signed the new policy. A quiet week sends nothing at all.

Checks built around who actually does them.

Fridge temperatures to fire doors, waking night staff included, rota beside them.

No child records.
That is the point.

There is no field for a young person anywhere in Staffbook, so trying it never puts a child’s data anywhere new. It sits beside whatever care system the home already runs, holding the staff side only.

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UK-hosted

Every organisation walled off from every other at the database level.

Append-only audit trail

Every change recorded. Nothing quietly rewritten.

Never hostage

Everything exports to plain spreadsheets, any time you like. Worst case, you are back to Excel with better-organised files.

Private files

Documents readable only by your own managers.

The questions managers actually ask.

We keep everything in a spreadsheet. How does it get in?

Paste it. Staffbook reads names, courses and dates from the matrix the home already keeps and takes over the chasing. About three minutes, nothing retyped.

What’s the contract?

Monthly rolling, priced per home, cancel any time, and you can export everything whenever. The founding rate is locked for as long as those homes stay.

What does it cost?

One flat rate per home, monthly rolling, no tiers and no per-user charges. You get the number on the call, and the founding rate is locked for as long as those homes stay.

Will an inspector accept it?

The evidence pack is the same records you’d show from folders: dated, signed and in one PDF, minus the scramble to assemble them.

We run more than one home.

One dashboard across all of them: readiness per home, an RI view over the lot, priced per home.

Anything else: ask on the call, or email colby@staffbook.co.uk and you’ll get an answer from a person.

See it on a demo home this week.

Fifteen minutes, on a call, on a demo home with a year of records in it.

No card, no contract. Founding rate for the first homes, locked for as long as they stay.