Examzi for children in care
A tutor for every child in care, wherever they live.
Young people talk it through with Examzi, out loud, any evening, in children's homes and with foster carers. Their virtual school can fund it.
Fostering agency or virtual school? Choose your route
A painted children’s home with its front door open. Ace, the Examzi tutor, hops out holding a teacher’s pointer, and a young person waves.
- For children's homes, foster carers and virtual schools
Delivered with Kings Centre of Learning, an education provider and exam centre- Funded by the virtual school for looked-after young people, from Pupil Premium Plus
Choose your route.
Children's homes
Open nowStart at no cost, and we ask each young person's virtual school to fund it.
What's included for children's homes
- Set up in two working days, with each funding request drafted in your first week.
- Staff sit alongside any evening, on a phone.
- You pay nothing for a young person their virtual school funds.
Foster carers and fostering agencies
Open nowStart at no cost, through your independent or council fostering service.
What's included for foster carers and fostering agencies
- For carers: the children in your household on one screen, with one suggested step each evening.
- For agencies: an education summary across your households, and supervising social workers co-confirming if you choose.
- Safeguarding: flags will go to your agency's DSL and out-of-hours contact, who decide who is told. Nothing the household sees changes when one is raised.
Start at no costThe form asks for no child's name or details.
Virtual schools and social workers
Open nowPut Pupil Premium Plus to work for every looked-after young person you're responsible for.
What's included for virtual schools and social workers
- A standing approval: agree once, and young people can start without a separate request each time.
- Kings Centre of Learning, an education provider and exam centre, invoices you directly.
- A termly review by a qualified teacher, for each young person's PEP.
Ask about a standing approvalFor virtual school heads, PEP leads and social workers.
Education shouldn't stop when a placement changes.
Young people in care are often out of school or between placements. Staff want to help in the evenings, but they aren't tutors, and Regulation 8 expects measurable progress.
Examzi gives each young person a patient tutor they can talk to, and gives your team the evidence to show it's working.
- 3:30School's out. For some, there wasn't school today.
- 6:00Tea, then homework. Staff want to help, but they aren't maths tutors.
- 9:15Revision, finally. Ace is still here.
For young people: a tutor that listens.
- They talk it through, out loud. Ace listens and asks the next question, so they do the thinking. No typing, no forms, no judgement.
- It sketches on a live board as it explains, and tries a different way when something doesn't land.
Jay and Ace, talking it through
Jay is a made-up pupil, and both voices are AI.
Read the whole conversation
- Jay: Hey Ace, I don't get this one. Can you help?
- Ace: Of course. What's stopping x being on its own?
- Jay: The plus six?
- Ace: Yes! So what can we do to both sides?
- Jay: Take 6 away. So 3x is 15.
- Ace: Lovely. And x?
- Jay: 15 shared by 3. It's 5!
- Ace: You worked that out. Same thing to both sides, every time.
Snap & Mark, on paper
Question 4
Solve 3x + 6 = 21
3x = 21 + 6✗
3x = 27
x = 9
3x = 21 − 6
3x = 15
x = 5✓
You added the 6. Take it away from both sides, then divide by 3.
+2 marks recovered
- Snap & Mark: they photograph a handwritten answer and get feedback in seconds.
- A personal study plan, one manageable step a day, up to their exams.
- It moves with them: the same account and progress if their placement or school changes.
Engaging for young people. Simple for staff.
Tonight
Jay: 20 minutes of fractions with Ace
Mia: Lighter week: flashcards only
Sam: Snap his science homework
Handover note
Jay got 3/3 on his photo answer. Tell him well done! Priya, late shift
A preview of the key worker view. Names are made up.
Being built with our founding homes. The key worker dashboard, DSL alerts, consent tracking, handover notes and the Reg 44, Reg 45 and PEP reports are in development now. Join early and help shape how they work.
For key workers: tonight, made easy
- You will see every young person in the home on one screen, with one suggested step each for tonight.
- Examzi will recommend a weekly target from each young person's exam dates and progress, and you'll be able to adjust it when you know they need a lighter week.
- Sit alongside for a session today. With the dashboard, send encouragement or leave a handover note for the next shift.
- Works on a phone during evening rounds.
For registered managers and DSLs: oversight and assurance
- Coming: safeguarding flags straight to your named DSL.
- Coming: consent status for every young person, with reminders to the placing authority.
- Coming: termly evidence reports for Reg 44 visits, Reg 45 reviews and inspection.
For providers: consistency across every home
- One view of education outcomes across your homes, as the dashboard launches.
- One contract, one invoice and the same evidence format everywhere.
Still here at 9pm.
Young people talk to Examzi any evening, wherever they're placed, on a phone.
Designed for young people in care from the start.
Wherever it's used
- Lesson audio is never saved by Examzi. OpenAI, which powers the voice, may hold it for up to 30 days only to check for misuse, then deletes it. The written lesson is kept so Ace remembers where they got to, and only the young person can read it in full. None of it is used to train AI.
- Accounts and progress are stored in Europe. Voice and marking are processed by OpenAI in the US, under the safeguards in our privacy policy. Data is never sold.
- Young people are told it's an AI, not a person. There is no chat with other people, no public profile and no adverts.
- A complete pack before you start: a DPIA pre-filled for you to review and complete, our safeguarding statement, and how Examzi maps against the DfE's Generative AI: product safety expectations.
- Flags will go to your home's or agency's named DSL and deputy.In development Your DSL will see what raised it and decide who is told. Key workers will see only that a flag exists; in foster care, nothing the household sees changes.
- Until then, Ace responds with care and points the young person to the adult looking after them. It doesn't alert anyone and isn't a filtering or monitoring system, so keep your own in place. In an emergency, call 999.
- Consent comes first. Today we arrange it with the placing authority for you. With the dashboard: the home or carer confirms delegated authority covers online learning and the young person agrees; we tell their social worker, and voice tutoring starts once their 7 days to object are up, or sooner if they agree. Drills and flashcards can start straight away. For a young person under 13, the person with parental responsibility consents. The FAQ has the detail.
- First names only across the dashboard and reports, as they launch.
- Every sensitive action will be logged:In development who viewed a flag, who changed a target, who exported a report.
- No adverts or upselling, ever, to young people in care or to your staff.
Get the safeguarding packShow progress, not just activity.
Every term, Examzi will give you a clear picture for each young person:
Termly progress report, autumn term
Jay, Year 10
Page 1 of 2
Progress against a baseline
Sessions this term
18
about 30 minutes each
Engagement
9.5 hours
Sessions rated easy 6, OK 14, hard 4
Topics secured this term
- Linear equations
- Fractions
- Cell structure
- Persuasive writing
- Progress against a baseline
- Accuracy by subject now, compared with their starting assessment.
- Topics secured
- What they've mastered this term.
- Engagement
- Hours of tutoring, and how each young person rated their sessions.
Reports: a one-page monthly summary for Reg 44 visits, a termly report for your Reg 45 review, and a PEP progress report for each young person. They arrive with the key worker dashboard.
Examzi supports the evidence you provide to inspectors. It is not endorsed by Ofsted.
Funded by the virtual school.
Looked-after young people in Years 7 to 11 are eligible for Pupil Premium Plus, which the virtual school agrees through their Personal Education Plan. Each virtual school decides, and once a young person is funded, you pay nothing for them.
We draft the PEP request with the young person's progress so far, for you to approve by email.
Each young person gets voice tutoring all year and unlimited drills, flashcards and photo marking. Funded places add a termly review by a qualified Kings Centre of Learning teacher. Provider groups and fostering agencies can put every home or household on one contract.
Funding request
Jay's progress so far
Funding request, drafted by Examzi
Jay, Year 10
Looked after, Pupil Premium Plus
- To
- The virtual school
- Asks for
- Examzi, plus a termly review by a Kings Centre of Learning teacher
- Invoiced to
- The virtual school
- Decided
- At Jay's next PEP
Start at no cost
No upfront cost. We ask your virtual school to fund it from day one.
- 1
Tell us about your home. We set your home up within two working days, and arrange consent with the placing authority for you.
- 2
In your first week, we draft a funding request to each young person's virtual school for Examzi with a termly review by a qualified Kings Centre of Learning teacher, paid from Pupil Premium Plus. You approve it by email. Each virtual school decides for itself.
- 3
When it's approved, the virtual school pays, and you pay nothing for that young person.
- 4
If it's declined, or there's no decision within 6 weeks of the request, you choose: carry on from your own budget, or pause. We'll tell you the price before you decide, and never charge without your agreement.
Who it's for: looked-after young people in Years 7 to 11.
Virtual school budgets run to 31 March, so a request in before then can often be decided from this year's Pupil Premium Plus.
Start at no costWho it's for
Children's homes: Registered managers, key workers and DSLs
Provider groups: Responsible individuals, operations directors and education leads
Post-16 and supported accommodation: GCSE resits and routes back into education, paid from your own budget
Virtual schools: A way to put Pupil Premium Plus to work, with the progress so far in every PEP request
Fostering agencies and foster carers: Start at no cost, and the virtual school can fund each young person
Adopters and special guardians: if a child left care through adoption, a special guardianship order or a child arrangements order, their school can receive Pupil Premium Plus once you tell it. Start with our page for parents and carers
Kinship foster carers: the child is still looked after, so their virtual school can fund it, through the foster care route
Built by people who know children's services.
“The young people who most need a patient tutor are the least likely to have one.”
Examzi was co-founded by Stephen Watson and his son Zac Watson, Examzi's CTO. Stephen has spent years running children's services, alternative provision and SEND education, and publishes The Regulatory Edge for managers in the sector.
Delivered with Kings Centre of Learning, an education provider and exam centre.
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