Foresight:
Complete Visibility Over Every Vulnerable Pupil
Foresight gives local authorities real-time visibility over every vulnerable pupil, from early warning signs to AP placement and successful reintegration. One platform to track exclusion risk, oversee alternative provision, and prove compliance with legislation and Ofsted.
Three Pressures Facing Every Local Authority
Section 19 and Statutory Duties Are Under Scrutiny
Under Section 19 of the Education Act 1996, authorities must arrange suitable education for every pupil unable to attend mainstream school. Managed Moves, CME, EHE, and Section 19 requests are all on the inspection radar. Those that cannot evidence decisions face legal challenge, Ombudsman findings, and inspection downgrade.
Ofsted and CQC Expect Live, Joined-Up Data
Area inspections expect real-time evidence of systematic oversight of vulnerable pupils. Retrospective spreadsheets assembled under time pressure are not what inspectors want to see.
Rise in Suspensions and Exclusions Is Putting Vulnerable Pupils at Risk
Suspensions and exclusions rose by a fifth last year (IPPR, 2024). The greatest risk falls on pupils with SEND and pupils with a social worker (CWSW). When inspectors ask how these cases were tracked, spreadsheets and email chains are not an acceptable answer.
Foresight was built to address all three. It has been doing so in London for over three years.
“I can not do my job anymore without it.”
These are not high cost families. They are high cost interventions. Every case above started with a preventable decision that was never tracked.
Structured Around the Three Priorities Every Authority Must Deliver
Authorities are held accountable for governance, risk, and compliance. Foresight is built around all three.
Governance
Collaboration, consistency, and structured decision-making. Cross-authority visibility of every vulnerable pupil, case, and intervention. Dashboards for senior leaders. Evidence packs for elected members. Audit trails that stand up to scrutiny.
Risk Management
Prevention, early identification, and mitigation. Automated risk scoring and real-time alerts surface problems before they escalate to crisis. Move from reactive firefighting to proactive, evidence-based intervention.
Compliance
Legislation-ready, inspection-ready, audit-ready. AP provider register aligned to incoming legislation. SEND graduated response tracking. Ofsted-ready evidence generation. Full GDPR compliance with ISO 27001.
One View of Every Vulnerable Pupil Across Your Authority
Multiple schools, multi-agency panels, and multi-disciplinary teams all need accurate information to make decisions for vulnerable pupils. Today, that information sits in email threads, spreadsheets, and individual memory. No one has a single view of which pupils are at risk, which cases are overdue, or which interventions are working.
Foresight replaces fragmented processes with a multi-stage structured case flow. Schools initiate cases and escalate to multi-agency panels. LA teams see the full picture. Dynamic filters give quick insight into attendance patterns, past cases, interventions, and provisions. Teams can identify Ever CIN status and vulnerability in seconds, surfacing pupils who would otherwise fall through the gaps between services.
- Schools initiate the case flow and escalate to multi-agency panels
- Virtual School integration for CLA, Ever CIN, and CWSW cohorts
- Proven methodology built in: Assess, Plan, Do, Review
- Role-based permissions with full audit trail for every action
- Dynamic filters: attendance patterns, past cases, interventions, provisions
- Evidence packs for panel discussions, elected members, and scrutiny bodies
- Exportable chronological case history for serious case reviews and tribunals
Identify Concerns Early Enough to Act on Them
Attendance dropping to zero over six weeks with no alert. Behaviour spikes for a previously settled pupil going unnoticed. A looked-after pupil moving schools with no history transfer. These are the failures that make headlines.
Foresight pulls data from school MIS systems daily and alerts the right professional automatically when thresholds are crossed.
- Virtual School oversight of CLA, Ever CIN, and CWSW cohorts, the pupils most at risk of exclusion
- Three-week rolling attendance view for looked-after pupils, sorted worst-first with session-level detail
- Year 7 transition watch list tracking attendance patterns term by term from primary through secondary entry
- Attendance drops flagged before they become persistent absence
- Behaviour escalation patterns identified and alerted
- Exclusion threshold warnings triggered before suspension
- Looked-after pupils moves tracked across authorities
- Proactive intervention recommended before formal exclusion
Ready for Legislation Before It Lands
Section 19 duties, 12-week reintegration timelines, SEND Code of Practice graduated response, Ofsted area inspections. The list of statutory obligations is growing, and most authorities are tracking none of it in one place.
Foresight has been managing compliance in a live authority for over three years. When legislation lands, authorities using Foresight will have established workflows and years of auditable evidence. Authorities without it will be building from scratch.
| Government Requirement | How Foresight Delivers |
|---|---|
| Section 19 duty for pupils unable to attend mainstream school | Structured case workflow with provision tracking and reintegration oversight |
| Quality assurance of AP settings | Compliance tracking across 5 key areas |
| Attendance tracked at placement settings | Daily MIS integration with placement attendance recording |
| Reintegration outcomes monitored | Multi-stage case workflow with outcome tracking |
| Ofsted evidence for SEND inspections | Structured evidence reporting across attendance, exclusions, and interventions |
| LA oversight of vulnerable cohorts | Cross-authority dashboards with role-based access |
| 12-week reintegration requirement | Six-week review cycle enforcement with overdue alerts |
What Foresight Covers for Local Authorities
Foresight is built around the statutory duties that carry the greatest risk for local authorities: keeping vulnerable pupils in education, managing pupils at risk of exclusion, overseeing alternative provision, and meeting the reintegration timelines that legislation and inspectors now expect.
Attendance and Absence Oversight
Track daily attendance across every connected school. Identify persistent absence patterns before they become a statutory concern, with automated alerts when thresholds are crossed.
Suspensions and Permanent Exclusions
Structured decision workflows with automated parent letters and governor notifications. Every suspension and exclusion is documented with a complete audit trail, ready for independent review panel challenge or judicial review.
Alternative Provision and Reintegration
Manage AP placements from referral through to reintegration. The 8-stage case workflow enforces the 12-week reintegration requirement with six-week review cycles and overdue alerts, so no pupil is left in AP without active oversight.
Safeguarding Oversight
Continuous visibility of safeguarding flags and DSL actions across the authority. Every inclusion decision is evidenced against safeguarding requirements, with a complete chronological record available for serious case reviews.
Foresight also supports local authorities managing growing demand around elective home education, with structured oversight built into the same platform.
Barking and Dagenham: Three Years Live
In 2023, the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham partnered with PupilPathways to deploy Foresight across 60 schools. Three regional Education Inclusion Professionals now manage structured caseloads.
The Virtual School Head monitors over 2,500 vulnerable pupils through a single platform. Panel decisions are evidence-based, auditable, and consistent.
Tracking only current CIN or CP pupils is really flawed. It does not give the long-term care our young people need when they have had a period of crisis.
Adela Kay, Virtual School Head, Barking and Dagenham
What Your Teams Will Actually Use Every Day
Foresight is the digital structure behind your inclusion workflow. Every case, every decision, every review, captured in one place and owned by your authority.
Case management
Structured workflow from initial concern through to resolution and reintegration
Suspension and exclusion letters
Automated and pre-populated with pupil data, dates, and incident details
Section 19 case oversight
Structured tracking of pupils unable to attend mainstream school, with provision, placement attendance, and reintegration outcomes
Daily attendance and behaviour
Frequent data feeds pulled directly from school MIS systems across the authority
Automated alerts
Triggered when attendance, behaviour, or safeguarding thresholds are crossed
Audit-ready reporting
Every decision, placement, and review logged and exportable for Ofsted inspections, elected member scrutiny, and serious case reviews
Your Processes, Digitised and Made Audit-Ready
We start with Discovery. Our team maps your authority's existing inclusion processes, decisions, and data sources, then shapes Foresight around them. The result is a digital structure for the workflow your teams already run, not another system they have to learn from scratch.
Discovery and Scoping
We map your authority's current workflows, data sources, and reporting requirements. You tell us what matters most and we design the rollout around it.
Configuration and Training
We connect your school MIS systems, configure dashboards for each team, and deliver hands-on training so your staff are confident from day one.
Go Live and Ongoing Support
Your authority goes live with full platform access. Our team provides continuous support, regular check-ins, and platform updates at no extra cost.
Exclusion rates are rising. Reintegration requirements are tightening.
Is Your Authority Ready?
Barking and Dagenham deployed Foresight across 60 schools in 2023 and achieved a 95% reintegration rate within 12 weeks. Implementation is shaped around your authority’s existing processes, with no heavy IT lift required.
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