The BounceMH platform
BounceMH is a wellbeing monitoring and safeguarding platform built specifically for UK primary and secondary schools. The platform is structured around three connected modules — wellbeing surveys, the safeguarding dashboard, and reporting/intervention tracking — designed to fit into the workflow your designated safeguarding lead (DSL) and pastoral team already use.
Wellbeing surveys
The platform's foundation is a library of validated wellbeing scales, age-appropriate for pupils from Reception through Year 13. Surveys are short (5–10 minutes), can be deployed on any internet-connected device, and aggregate automatically into the safeguarding dashboard.
Stirling Children's Wellbeing Scale (SCWBS)
The most-deployed scale on BounceMH. Developed at the University of Strathclyde, the SCWBS is a 12-item positive wellbeing measure validated for use with children aged 8–15. It covers two sub-scales: positive emotional state and positive outlook. The full assessment takes most pupils 5–7 minutes.
Warwick–Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS)
For secondary-school cohorts. WEMWBS is widely used across UK health and education settings and gives a continuous measure of mental wellbeing. Suitable for whole-school annual surveys and individual-pupil tracking.
Primary wellbeing scale (visual)
For early-years and KS1 pupils where text-based scales are too cognitively demanding. Uses a visual five-point scale with stylised facial expressions and child-friendly prompts. Designed to capture broad wellbeing trends rather than fine-grained data.
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
Optional add-on for schools wanting a more clinically-aligned scale. SDQ is widely used by educational psychologists and CAMHS services. We can configure it for whole-cohort or targeted use.
Custom and pulse surveys
Beyond the validated scales, the platform lets schools deploy custom short-form pulse surveys (1–5 questions, quick to deploy after a transition or significant event). Custom pulse data is held separately from validated-scale data so reporting remains methodologically clean.
Safeguarding dashboard
The dashboard is where the DSL and pastoral team spend most of their time on BounceMH. It surfaces:
- Whole-school trends — wellbeing across the school over time, broken down by year group, gender, or any flag the school has set up.
- Year-group and class-level patterns — early warning when a specific class shows declining trends.
- Individual concern flags — pupils whose individual scores cross threshold values, prompting follow-up consideration by the DSL.
- Existing concern integration — links to your school's safeguarding case management (CPOMS, MyConcern, etc.) so wellbeing trends sit alongside the case history.
- Cohort comparisons — anonymised national-average comparisons drawn from aggregated platform data, useful for understanding whether a trend is school-specific or part of a wider pattern.
Reporting and intervention tracking
The reporting module produces three categories of output:
- Termly safeguarding reports — formatted for SLT and governor review. Cover whole-school trends, action taken, and any flagged areas for the term ahead.
- Annual wellbeing reports — used in DfE inspections, Ofsted preparation, and as part of school improvement planning.
- Pupil-level intervention tracking, for pupils receiving targeted support, tracks wellbeing trajectory before, during, and after intervention. Used by SENCOs and pastoral leads to evaluate what's working.
Data, privacy, and security
School data lives within the UK, on UK-hosted infrastructure. We're GDPR-compliant by design, with explicit data-processor agreements available to all subscribing schools.
- Data residency: all pupil data stored in UK datacentres (London + Manchester redundancy).
- Encryption: at-rest and in-transit. TLS 1.3 for all client connections.
- Access control: per-role access for DSLs, SLT, teachers, and (where configured) parents.
- Audit log: every administrator action is logged and accessible for school audit.
- Cyber Essentials Plus certified.
- DfE Cloud Services framework compliant — schools using DfE-aligned procurement can reference our framework registration.
Integrations
BounceMH integrates with the systems UK schools already use:
- SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom — MIS sync for pupil rosters and class structure
- CPOMS, MyConcern, Edukey Provision Map — safeguarding case-management linkage
- Google Workspace for Education, Microsoft 365 Education — single sign-on for pupils and staff
- Smartlog, Educare — staff training tracking integration where required
Roadmap
Visible upcoming work for the next 12 months:
- Expanded library of validated scales, particularly trauma-informed measures for SEMH (social, emotional and mental health) settings
- Parent-facing wellbeing reports (with school permission) to support home-school continuity
- Multi-language support for survey delivery (EAL pupils) starting with the most-needed languages in UK schools
- Wider DfE / NHS framework alignments as those frameworks evolve