You know when a young person needs something you can’t provide. The question is what happens next.
Too often the answer is hours of searching, incomplete information and a process that feels like starting from scratch every time. Waypaths helps structure what the learner needs, what support is already in place, and which individual internal or external services may be worth considering. It keeps the evidence, decisions and review activity connected without making the decision for you.
Compare relevant support more clearly
Build a structured picture of the learner’s needs, strengths, barriers, essential requirements and current support. Waypaths can then compare those with individual internal and external services, while keeping suitability and practical feasibility visible for human review.
Build the case with confidence
Where the relevant information has been supplied and confirmed, requests can carry a more structured picture of the young person’s history, support already tried, what appears to have helped and what still needs checking. Gaps and unknowns remain visible rather than being treated as complete.
Reduce friction between school, LA and family
When relevant people can work from the same permissioned information, it is easier to see what has been agreed, what remains unresolved and what evidence is available. Access and visibility still depend on each person’s role and permissions.
What changes in practice
A learner record that follows the child
The structured learner profile brings relevant needs, strengths, barriers, current support and agreed information together, with access controlled according to role and permission.
Matching based on what the young person actually needs
Service-level comparison against structured information about individual internal and external services. Eligibility, essential requirements, suitability and practical feasibility remain visible rather than being collapsed into a single score.
Track whether it’s working
Keep available feedback, attendance and progress information connected to the reasons support was agreed, so teams can review what is happening without rebuilding the picture each time.
Reduce repeated process work
Learner needs, current support, service information, evidence, decisions and review activity can be connected in one place, reducing reliance on one person holding the whole process together in their head.
How it works for schools
Build the learner profile
Tell us who the young person is, what they need and what works for them. The permissioned profile can support continuity so relevant information does not have to be rebuilt from scratch.
Compare relevant services
Waypaths compares the learner’s confirmed needs and requirements with individual services at service level. Internal and external options can be considered through the same structure, with gaps and unconfirmed information kept visible.
Track and review
Once support is in place, available feedback, attendance and progress information can remain connected to the reasons it was agreed, supporting human review without having to rebuild the picture each time.
Be part of building it
We’re preparing a pilot with participating organisations. Participating organisations will help test the workflows, information and safeguards needed in practice, with feedback informing further development. We’ve worked inside this sector. We know what’s not working. We want to build something better with the people who understand it best.
Pilot participation details and wider rollout arrangements will be confirmed separately with interested organisations.
