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Fifteen minutes. Built with a serving RI, twenty years in children’s homes.

GE Grace Ellison Deputy Manager · Alder Lodge
Enhanced DBS valid · Mar 2028
Safeguarding training valid · Nov 2026
Fire safety training 160 days over
Supervision due in 6 days
Staffbook Demo Care Group
Overview
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People
Rota
The home
Governance
Organisation
S Susan Armitage · owner Sign out
Demo Care Group People / Staff / Grace Ellison Download her file
GE Grace Ellison Deputy Manager · Alder Lodge · started June 2021 96% · 1 TO FIX
Chasing automatically: reminder sent to Grace, 07:00
RECRUITMENT
References & right to work
Full employment history
TRAINING
Safeguarding, first aid, medication
Fire safety: 160 days over
DBS
Enhanced, child workforce
Expires March 2028
SUPERVISIONS
Last held 28 July
Next due 8 September
Recent activityevery change dated, nothing rewritten
24 Aug 09:12Fire safety refresher booked for GraceSarah W
22 Aug 07:00Reminder sent: fire safety 158 days overStaffbook
28 Jul 15:40Supervision recorded, signed by bothSarah W
18 Jul 10:15Medication certificate uploaded to her fileGrace E
14 Jul 08:00Reminder sent: supervision due in 14 daysStaffbook
16 documents on file Export her whole file any time →

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 Ofsted 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 · Alder Lodge
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. It turns amber ahead of time and gets chased before it runs out.
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 · Alder Lodge
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
Booked, recorded, evidenced. If the pattern slips, you see it 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✓ Priya
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 · Alder Lodge
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
Alder-Lodge-evidence-pack.pdf Download

Every section stays up to date on its own.

A short call. We do your setup for you, free.

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 Ofsted 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.

Shifts painted in, hours counted for you, sleep-ins 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.

UK-hosted No child records Export any time
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UK-hosted

Held and processed in the UK, end to end.

Walled off

Every organisation separated 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. Or send it to us and we do it for you, free.

What’s the contract?

Monthly rolling, priced per home, cancel any time. You can export everything whenever you like. We do your setup for you, free, within about two working days.

What does it cost?

Your first month is free. It starts the day your data is in, not the day you sign. After that it is one flat rate per home, monthly rolling. No tiers, no per-user charges. You get the number on the call. The founding rate is locked for as long as those homes stay.

Will Ofsted 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. Staffbook is a way to keep and show your records. It does not change what Ofsted asks for.

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 hello@staffbook.co.uk and you’ll get an answer from a person.

See it on a demo home this week.

A short call. We show you a demo home with a year of records in it. If you want it, we set up your homes for you, free. Your first month is free.

Free setup. Free first month. Cancel any time.

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