On-demand stories and guides for children, families and staff.
Empathia is a digital learning tool for inclusive schools: a ready-made library of short, avatar-led Stories for pupils and Guides for families and staff, used one-to-one, in small groups or with the whole class — with the same content in every language your classroom speaks. Customise what's there; ask for new topics on demand.
The library is organised into three sections — each written in the voice, tone and register that works for that audience, and each available in every language your school needs. Stories for children, Guides for grown-ups.
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™.
Watch a storyClear, jargon-free explainers for parents who are worried, new to the system, or whose children have additional needs. Topics including the graduated response, school readiness and the school day.
Watch a guidePractical, evidence-informed development guides on trauma-informed practice, emotional regulation and whole-school behaviour systems. For every adult in the building — not just teachers.
Watch a guideEmpathia is built for the classroom you actually have: children at different stages, families who read different languages, and staff who need one consistent message. Play a Story to the whole class, sit with one child and go through it together, or send the Guide home — it's the same content each time, in the language each person needs.
A teaching assistant and one child, a Story about a big feeling, paused where it matters. Targeted support that starts before any diagnosis.
The same Story on the board for everyone — new rules, a change of routine, coming back after time away — so no child is singled out for needing it.
Every Story and Guide is available in the languages your families speak, so a child hears it in English at school and a parent reads the same message at home in their own language.
Stories and Guides across feelings and regulation, rules and routines, school readiness, the graduated response, trauma-informed practice, EBSNA, SEMH and the EYFS — written by specialists, approved by SENCOs.
Your school's name, your routines, your places and your words — the library is a starting point, not a script you're stuck with.
A new arrival, a bereavement, a building move, a change in the behaviour policy — ask for a Story or Guide on it and it's written, checked and in your library, in every language you need.
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. 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.
Empathia is evidenced provision for five; the other two are yours to lead — and we say so.
Stories that start early support before any diagnosis and build regulation and belonging. CPD and consistent content for staff. Family communication in the languages your families speak. Avatar-delivered visual supports. Start before half-term and the strategy you publish in December carries real outcome numbers.
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' 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.
Empathia content is mapped to Ofsted's renewed framework — giving schools clear, evidenceable support across all six evaluation areas.
Fifteen minutes with a real person. Tell us about your school — we'll show you the library and answer all your questions.
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.
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.
The free five-minute family check is coming later this term (Phase 2).
No account. No pupil data. Content written for families, not about them.