Stories and guides for children, families and staff — warm, evidence-informed, in the languages families actually speak. Choose your path and we'll take you straight there.
Every mainstream school must publish one on its website. It's a condition of the Inclusive Mainstream Fund, governors scrutinise it, and Ofsted reads it — inclusion is now a standalone grade on the report card. It must be organised under the DfE's seven principles, in the DfE template. Only your cohort can make it yours.
Tap through the questions on your phone. Aimee writes a first draft in the DfE template shape from your own numbers, with an evidence appendix. Nothing is invented; anything you don't know is marked.
Your strategy must organise the activity you fund under these. Empathia is evidenced provision for five; the other two are yours to lead — and we say so.
""" + seven() + """Stories for pupils that start early support before any diagnosis and build regulation and belonging. CPD and consistent, quality-assured content for staff. Family communication in 72 languages. Avatar-delivered visual supports and communication aids. Start before half-term and the strategy you publish in December carries real outcome numbers, not intentions.
A free, five-minute check for parents. A warm report at the end, a story to watch together — and nothing to sign up for.
No account. No pupil data stored. The report is written for you, not about you.
"Alex learns best by doing. Here's a story to watch together — and here's what to share with Alex's teacher."
Schools spend hours explaining the same things — to children who are anxious, parents who are confused, and staff who need a consistent message. Empathia does that work for you.
Every piece of content is written by specialists, reviewed for plain language and emotional safety, and designed to feel like a conversation — not a policy document.
Empathia is built for the whole school community — every child, every family, and every member of staff — with inclusion as the lens, and clear communication as the standard.
Rooted in trauma-informed practice and Carol Gray's Social Stories™ methodology, its warm, multilingual content is evidenced against Ofsted's renewed framework (November 2025), which grades inclusion as a standalone area — so no child, parent or practitioner is left behind.
Twenty minutes, on your own cohort. Tell us about your school — we'll show you the library and answer the safeguarding questions first.
Your library goes live, staff get a 20-minute walkthrough, and your SENCO gets the safeguarding pack for governors.
A ready-made parent launch pack — multilingual invites included. Then we review together every term, with your evidence report ready for inspection.
Empathia content is organised into three sections — each written in the voice, tone and register that works for that audience.
Guided stories that help children understand big feelings, school rules, kind behaviour, and what makes a safe place. Informed by Carol Gray's Social Stories™ methodology. Available in Full and Visual versions.
Clear, jargon-free explainers covering the graduated response, school readiness and the school day — for parents who are worried, new to the system, or whose children have additional needs.
Practical, evidence-informed development guides on trauma-informed practice, emotional regulation and whole-school behaviour systems. For every adult in the building — not just teachers.
Every piece of Empathia content is grounded in established frameworks and research — and we're transparent about where that evidence comes from.
Children's stories informed by Gray's principles of patient tone, first-person perspective, and describing before directing.
Staff content draws on Bruce Perry, Bessel van der Kolk, Dan Hughes, and Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory.
Informed by Leah Kuypers' Zones of Regulation framework for emotional literacy and self-regulation.
Parent content is grounded in the SEND Code of Practice (2015) and the graduated approach to identifying and supporting children.
Because every family in your school community deserves to understand — not just the ones who find written English easy. Empathia content is available in multiple languages, with more being added.
Empathia content is mapped to Ofsted's Education Inspection Framework — giving schools clear, evidenceable support across all six judgement areas.
We're transparent about where our evidence comes from. Every Empathia story and guide names the framework it draws on — so SENCOs, heads and inspectors can trace every claim.
Children's stories follow Gray's principles: patient and reassuring tone, first-person perspective, and describing before directing. Stories answer the questions children actually ask — where, when, who, what and why — before asking anything of them.
Children's StoriesStaff development content draws on the work of Bruce Perry, Bessel van der Kolk, Dan Hughes and Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory — regulation before reasoning, connection before correction.
Staff GuidesEmotional-literacy content is informed by Leah Kuypers' Zones of Regulation framework, giving children and staff a shared, shame-free language for feelings and self-regulation.
Children's StoriesStaff GuidesParent guides are grounded in the SEND Code of Practice and the graduated approach — assess, plan, do, review — explained in plain language for families meeting it for the first time.
Parent GuidesContent mapped across the renewed framework in force since November 2025
Positioned against current DfE expectations for SEND provision and safe use of technology in schools.
Estyn (Wales), Education Scotland and ETI (NI) alignment — Welsh-language content live at launch.
Empathia was built with a group of practising SENCOs. They review content, challenge language, and tell us what schools actually need — before anything reaches a child. Their fingerprints are on every story and guide.
Empathia was designed with safeguarding as the starting point, not a feature. Here is exactly what we do — and what we will never do.
Empathia never reads emotion from a child's face or voice. Ever.
No emotion recognition, no biometric analysis, no profiling. This is written into our product and our contracts — and it is also the law in EU education settings, which we support ahead of time.
The approved review pipeline, shown the way we'd explain it to a governor.
A full safeguarding pack is available on request: our safeguarding SOP, DfE Generative-AI and ICO Children's Code mapping, and our published EU AI Act position (August 2026).
Book a safeguarding walkthrough with your SENCO and DSL in the room.
Book a walkthroughOne annual licence for your whole school community: every child, every family, every member of staff.
Multi-school licences with central reporting. Priced per trust/authority — talk to us.
The free family learning-styles check (see Platform preview) gives parents and schools a real taste of Empathia before any licence conversation.
Everything: the full library for all three audiences, multilingual versions, staff onboarding, the parent launch pack and termly evidence reports. No per-seat charges, no modules to unlock.
Schools typically fund Empathia from SEND, inclusion, CPD or parental-engagement budgets. The Pricing & Funding Report sets out the funding routes in detail.
Days, not terms. There's nothing to install and no pupil data to migrate — because we don't hold any.
We'll give your DSL and governors the full safeguarding pack up front, and we'll sit the review meeting with you. See the Safeguarding page for our five commitments.
Every family can take the free learning-styles check, and every school gets a live walkthrough with real content before any decision.
A free, five-minute check for parents. A warm report at the end, a story to watch together — and nothing to sign up for.
Free, no account needed. Warm, shame-free report.
A real Empathia film matched to the profile — the product sells itself.
"Share with your school" → warm inbound demand for the licence conversation.
We'll show you the stories, the staff guides, a family letter in three languages and the avatar — and answer the safeguarding questions first. Bring your SENCO or DSL; we like the hard questions.
On-demand stories and guides for children, families and staff — warm, evidence-informed, and made to be understood, revisited and trusted.
We're opening school by school. Join the waiting list and you'll be first through the door — parents, SENCOs, teachers, everyone welcome.
Two fields. No spam — one email when your school can join, that's it.