"School leaders are pragmatic. They don’t want wishy-washy. Motional fits with that - it gives you steps to take, data, and progress."
Thomas Oates, Virtual School Head, Barnsley MBC
KEEPING VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN VIEW
Virtual School Head
Understand vulnerability. Coordinate support. Evidence impact.
Motional helps Virtual School Heads build a shared understanding of Emotional Wellbeing across pupils, schools and placements, bringing education, care and safeguarding professionals together around the same picture of need.
More than measuring Emotional Wellbeing, Motional supports earlier conversations, more coordinated responses and clearer evidence of impact over time.
Build a shared picture across schools and settings
Virtual School Heads work across schools, placements and services, bringing together information from education, care and safeguarding. Motional creates a shared understanding of Emotional Wellbeing, helping everyone build the same picture of need while recognising each child’s individual experiences and context.
Rather than relying on separate reports or differing professional perspectives, Motional provides a consistent framework for understanding Emotional Wellbeing. It helps professionals have clearer conversations, make better informed decisions and coordinate support around the child.
- A shared framework for understanding Emotional Wellbeing
- Consistent insight across schools, placements and services
- Stronger evidence for PEPs, reviews and professional conversations
Children experience more consistent support when adults share the same understanding.
Turn understanding into coordinated support
Understanding Emotional Wellbeing only makes a difference when it shapes what happens next. Motional helps schools, carers and professionals move from understanding need to taking practical, coordinated action that supports the child.
By working from the same understanding of Emotional Wellbeing, education, care and safeguarding professionals can have clearer conversations, make more informed decisions and provide more consistent support, even when children move between schools, placements or services.
- Practical guidance linked directly to identified need
- Shared understanding across education, care and safeguarding
- More consistent support across schools, placements and professionals
Understanding becomes meaningful when it leads to coordinated action.
Review support. Demonstrate impact.
Supporting vulnerable children means understanding not only where support is needed, but whether it’s making a difference. Motional helps you review Emotional Wellbeing over time, identify meaningful change and build a clearer picture of the impact of support across your cohort.
Whether you’re preparing for a PEP review, discussing progress with schools or evaluating provision across the wider system, Motional provides the evidence to support confident conversations and informed decision-making.
- Review changes in Emotional Wellbeing over time
- Demonstrate the impact of support across schools and settings
- Strengthen PEP reviews and strategic decision-making with meaningful evidence
Better decisions come from understanding what has changed.
Designed for the realities of system leadership
Virtual School Heads work across multiple schools, services and professional networks. Motional is designed to fit alongside existing practice, making it easier to build understanding, coordinate support and review progress without creating unnecessary workload.
Whether you’re supporting a single child, preparing for a PEP review or identifying trends across your cohort, Motional provides practical insight that is easy to access, share and act upon.
- Fits naturally into existing Virtual School practice
- Clear, shareable insight for meetings and multi-agency discussions
- Supports strategic oversight without adding unnecessary complexity
Supporting vulnerable children starts with giving professionals the right understanding.
Ready to see Motional in practice?
See how Virtual School Heads use Motional to build a shared understanding of Emotional Wellbeing, coordinate support across schools and demonstrate impact with confidence.
From understanding vulnerability to evidencing impact – in under five minutes.
Understand children earlier. Support them confidently. Help them thrive.
Shared understanding. Earlier intervention. Better outcomes.
Clearer understanding. Consistent support. Meaningful progress.
Shared understanding. Local ownership. Trust-wide impact.
Early insight. Coordinated action. System-wide impact.
One approach. Any setting. Clear impact.
"How lucky to have had the opportunity to work alongside a company which is open to, in fact embraces, the lived professional experiences of teachers to explore and modify a wellbeing assessment tool to meet the needs of neurodiverse young people." "How lucky to have had the opportunity to work alongside a company which is open to, in fact embraces, the lived professional experiences of teachers to explore and modify a wellbeing assessment tool to meet the needs of neurodiverse young people. 'Equity' is a word much quoted but not always acted on. Having spent time with the Motional Team and array of teachers from special schools engaging in professional discussions regarding our diverse learners I truly feel we have created a system where we can truly identify our pupils to meet their unique needs to build strategies that nurture and support their emotional and social development and wellbeing."
Lisa James-Smith, Deputy Headteacher – Heronsbridge School
""We have been delighted to be able to fund a Motional licence for schools across Pembrokeshire for the past four years, and feel that it has been a very worthwhile investment. School feedback on Motional has been very positive." ""We have been delighted to be able to fund a Motional licence for schools across Pembrokeshire for the past four years, and feel that it has been a very worthwhile investment. School feedback on Motional has been very positive. It has been a pleasure working with Rich, who is always available to offer advice and guidance to schools. We look forward to our continued work with Motional.""
Dr Emma Emanuel, Pembrokeshire County Council
Supporting schools, trusts and local authorities
to improve emotional wellbeing, inclusion, attendance, behaviour and engagement.
