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Events logged from memory
Events are often recorded once the young people are settled, relying on memory rather than what happened in the moment.
Residential children's home software
The record that
keeps itself.
ARC turns the moments of a shift into one living record for every young person. Less time on paperwork, and a far clearer understanding of the young people in your care.
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People
Key information,
relationships and reviews. -
Journals
Daily stories
and observations. -
Incidents
Capture, manage
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Care plans
Individual plans
that evolve. -
Tasks
Keep your team
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Reports
Insights when
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Inspection
Be ready
with confidence.
The problem
Most care systems are a filing cabinet.
The record is technically complete, but it lives in pieces: incidents in one place, journals in another, plans somewhere else. When supervision, a review or an inspection asks what actually happened, the story has to be reconstructed by hand.
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Journals are clumsy and disconnected
Journals are difficult to use and not linked to the plans they are meant to evidence.
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Incidents lack context
Incidents are recorded, but not linked to what caused them, so the bigger picture is hard to see.
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Managers piece it all together
Managers are constantly piecing context together whenever a question is asked.
How ARC works
One connected record, built as the day happens.
ARC is built around the young person, not the paperwork. Staff log a moment in seconds and it becomes part of one living record. Nothing is entered twice.
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Event logged
Staff log a moment in seconds, as it happens.
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Journal built
The daily record compiles itself from those logs.
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Handover prepared
Key information flows straight to the next shift.
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Plans updated
Activity ties back to the young person's goals.
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Oversight ready
Managers and inspectors see a complete picture.
The young person record
Every action connects back to the young person.
Events, journals, incidents, safeguarding concerns, care plans and keywork all connect to a single live record. Anyone with permission can open a profile and see exactly what is happening, and why.
A live understanding
Managers don't cross-reference documents. Events link to goals, and the record updates as the day unfolds.
Structured by design
Plans are structured entries with defined goals. Incidents are tracked from log through to resolution.
Immediate oversight
Staff see what matters this shift. Managers and inspectors see a coherent timeline of care for each young person.
AI that drafts, never decides
AI drafts the write-up. A person always signs it off.
Ask ARC to summarise a journal day or an incident and get an advisory draft in seconds. Identifying details are stripped before anything reaches the model, inference runs UK-only, and every call is audited.
The draft never becomes the record on its own. In a market where "AI" usually means "we sent your young people's data somewhere," that distinction is the point.
See how AI works in ARC →
Summary · Thursday journal ADVISORY DRAFT
Accept
& edit Discard
De-identified · UK-only inference · audited
Management & compliance
Compliance as a consequence, not a scramble.
Because the record is built as work happens, supervision, quality assurance and inspection are a view you open, not a report you rebuild.
Role-based visibility
The right people see the right information at the right time. Safeguarding and HR never appear on operational screens.
Structured safeguarding workspace
A single place for every concern, action and outcome, tracked to resolution.
Open-incident tracking
Nothing gets missed. Incidents remain open until they are formally resolved and signed off.
Regulation 44 and 45 reporting
Regulation 45 reports are compiled from what is already recorded, with sign-off before issue. Regulation 44 visitors get their own independent, time-restricted access to write their reports.
Software built for UK residential children's homes.
ARC is not a bloated enterprise suite bent to fit. It is focused infrastructure for residential settings where clarity and continuity of care matter most.
One simple plan. Every feature included. No modules to unlock, no per-seat maths.
Built by people who've done the shifts Senior care practitioners, alongside senior engineering. Read our story →Questions
Children's home software, in plain terms.
ARC is residential children's home software for UK children's homes, built around the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015. It keeps one connected record for each young person, covering daily logs, handovers, incidents, safeguarding, care plans and Regulation 44 and 45 reporting, from £149 per home per month with unlimited staff.
What is children's home software?
Children's home software replaces the paper files and spreadsheets a residential children's home keeps: daily logs, incidents, safeguarding concerns, care plans, handovers and the Regulation 44 and 45 reports Ofsted reads. ARC keeps all of these in one connected record for each young person, so nothing is written twice.
What should residential children's home software do?
It should let staff record a moment as it happens, link every entry to the young person it is about, give managers a sign-off trail, restrict safeguarding information by role, and produce what the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015 and an Ofsted inspection ask for without anyone rebuilding it by hand.
How much does children's home software cost?
Many suppliers do not publish prices. ARC does: from £149 per home per month, banded by registered beds, with unlimited staff accounts, every feature included and no setup fees. A home not yet registered with Ofsted can use the Prepare plan for £29 a month while it gets ready.
Does ARC help with Ofsted inspections?
Yes. Regulation 44 independent visit records and Regulation 45 quality of care reports are compiled from the record staff already keep, and inspectors get a self-contained, access-controlled portal mapped to the evidence they ask for, instead of a pile of printouts.
Where is children's records data stored?
ARC is hosted in the UK, encrypted in transit and at rest, and backed up daily. Access is role-based, so a member of staff sees only the homes and information their role allows.
Can we move from paper or another system?
Yes. Onboarding, training and help moving live records across are included in the monthly price, and your first two weeks are free. Most homes start fresh from a chosen date and keep the old files stored as Regulation 36 requires.
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