The staff compliance platform that keeps you Ofsted ready.

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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
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GE Grace Ellison Deputy Manager · Alder Lodge · started June 2021 96% · 1 TO FIX
In Grace’s tasks: Renew fire safety
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 08:30Task set for Grace: book fire safety refresherSarah W
5 Aug 08:14Safeguarding policy v3 read and understoodGrace E
28 Jul 15:40Supervision recorded and signedSarah W
18 Jul 10:15Medication certificate uploaded to her fileGrace E
16 documents on file Export her whole file any time →

Built for the sector’s 4,700 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
✓Every expiry shown 30 days ahead, in that person’s tasks
✓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 shown 30 days 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 30 days ahead and shows as Renew in that person’s tasks.
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
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: outstandingreminded 11 August
○ Priya Raman: outstandingreminded 11 August
Every signature timestamped. Staff get an email when it is published and a reminder at 7 days.
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 homessheet
✓ DBS register with renewal datessheet
✓ Safer recruitment files, per person14 folders
✓ Supervision log & policy signaturessheet
Alder-Lodge-evidence-pack.zip Download

Every section stays up to date on its own.

A short call. Your first home is free for a month.

One person. One screen. Nothing missing.

Open any member of staff and their whole file is one glance. Green means evidenced. Amber means it is due within 30 days.

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

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

Staffbook is not HR software with the names changed. The screens answer what inspections actually ask.

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 one paste.

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

What is due, 30 days ahead.

Expired, due soon, who has not signed the new policy, on one screen. Staff see Renew in their own tasks.

Checks built around who actually does them.

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

What comes with it.

Every home gets the same. Nothing is an add-on.

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Your files, read in

Paste the training matrix you already keep. Names, courses and dates come in, nothing retyped.

An hour with your manager

On a call before you start, so Monday is clear.

Staff see their own record

Each person signs in to their shift, their tasks and their own file. Nothing to learn.

Support from the founder

Same working day. Email, WhatsApp or a call.

Reminders

Staff see Renew in their tasks 30 days ahead. New policies come by email, with one reminder at 7 days.

Plain forms, already in it

Supervisions, checks and recruitment, ready to use.

The evidence pack

Built around the England children’s homes regulations.

Your data, walled off

Held in the UK, separated per home, tested. A signed data agreement before any data. Export any time.

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 in the UK.

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, then shows what is due 30 days ahead. Nothing retyped.

What’s the contract?

Monthly rolling, priced per home, cancel any time. You can export everything whenever you like.

What does it cost?

Your first home is free for a month. After that it is a flat monthly rate per home, rolling. No per-user charges. You get the number on the call.

Will Ofsted accept it?

The evidence pack is the same records you’d show from folders: dated, signed and in one download, 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: compliance 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. Your first home is free for a month.

Your first home is free for a month. Cancel any time.

Not ready to talk? Try the demo or get the free pack →