About BounceMH

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BounceMH is part of the BounceTogether family of school-wellbeing tools. It's a UK-developed platform used by primary and secondary schools to monitor pupil mental health, wellbeing, and safeguarding signals. The platform is built around validated wellbeing scales, integrates with the data your school already collects, and fits the realities of a busy DSL workload.

Why BounceMH exists

UK schools are increasingly expected to monitor pupil mental health and wellbeing — not just react to crisis, but track trends and intervene early. The Department for Education's "Mental Health and Behaviour in Schools" guidance, the 2017 Children and Young People's Mental Health Green Paper, and successive Ofsted frameworks have all moved in the direction of expecting structured wellbeing monitoring as a normal part of school operation.

At the same time, the tools available to schools have not kept pace. Most schools historically relied on paper-based surveys (slow to collate, hard to track over time), generic survey tools (not designed for safeguarding contexts, no MIS integration), or expensive consultancy-led one-off measurement (point-in-time only, not continuous).

BounceMH was built to fill that gap — a continuous, school-owned wellbeing monitoring platform with the validated measurement tools, the integrations, and the workflows that fit how UK schools actually operate.

The BounceTogether family

BounceMH is part of a connected family of school-wellbeing tools developed by BounceTogether. The broader BounceTogether platform covers wellbeing measurement for adults (staff wellbeing, leadership wellbeing) alongside the pupil-focused BounceMH module described on this site. Schools that subscribe to the full BounceTogether platform get pupil and staff wellbeing monitoring in one integrated dashboard.

For schools that only want pupil-side monitoring, BounceMH stands alone — it shares infrastructure and data security standards with the broader BounceTogether platform but doesn't require subscribing to the staff modules.

How we work with researchers and policy

The validated scales we deploy (Stirling Children's Wellbeing Scale, Warwick–Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, and others) were developed by academic teams — primarily at the University of Strathclyde, NHS Scotland, and the Universities of Warwick and Edinburgh. We use them with appropriate licensing and methodological care; we don't modify the scales themselves.

Aggregated anonymised data from the BounceMH platform contributes to wider UK wellbeing research where schools have consented to that aggregation. This is opt-in at the school level; data is fully anonymised before any research use; the research outputs benefit the wider sector.

Trust, security, and compliance

BounceMH operates under strict UK educational-data standards. The headline points:

UK-hosted infrastructure (London + Manchester data centres for redundancy)
GDPR-compliant data processing — full data-processor agreement signed with every subscribing school
Cyber Essentials Plus certified
DfE Cloud Services framework compliant
ICO registered as a data processor for educational data
Annual penetration testing by an independent UK security consultancy
Per-role access control, full audit log, configurable data retention

School data belongs to the school. We process it under contract; we don't own it, don't sell it, and don't use it for any purpose outside of operating the platform and (with opt-in) contributing to anonymised wellbeing research.

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Who BounceMH serves

The platform is used by:

UK primary schools (typical pupil range: 30–600)
UK secondary schools (typical range: 600–2,000)
Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) covering 5–80+ schools
SEND-specialist and SEMH-specialist provisions, often using adapted scale configurations
Local authority federations and educational psychology services

The platform is UK-specific. Scales, integrations, regulatory references, and procurement workflows are all designed for UK education contexts. We don't currently offer non-UK deployments.

The team

BounceMH is built and supported by a small team based across the UK — split between developers, school-engagement leads (most of whom have prior education or safeguarding backgrounds), customer success, and an academic advisory group. Day-to-day, schools usually interact most with our school-engagement team during onboarding and our customer success team during ongoing use.

Get in touch

Email [email protected] for demos, procurement enquiries, partnership conversations, or any general question about the platform. We answer most enquiries within a working day.