UNDERSTANDING NEED ACROSS COMMUNITIES
Early insight. Coordinated action. System-wide impact.
Emotional wellbeing needs rarely emerge evenly across a local area. Understanding where need is growing helps local authorities target support, allocate resources effectively and strengthen outcomes across schools and communities.
Motional helps local authorities build a clearer picture of emotional wellbeing across settings, identify emerging patterns and evidence the impact of investment and support over time.
For directors of children’s services, inclusion leads, educational psychologists, virtual school heads and multi-agency partners who need a more coherent understanding of emotional wellbeing across their area.
Many local authorities face a familiar challenge: schools may be using different approaches, different language and different systems to understand wellbeing. This can make it harder to identify emerging priorities, share effective practice and coordinate support across services.
Motional provides a common framework for understanding Emotional Wellbeing, helping schools and services work from a shared language while retaining local ownership of data, governance and decision-making.
This supports more informed conversations across education, SEND, safeguarding and early help services, enabling earlier identification of priorities, more coordinated responses and stronger partnership working.
Shared understanding supports better decisions.
Local authorities often need to balance strategic priorities with the realities facing individual schools and communities. Understanding need is only valuable if it leads to practical action.
Motional helps schools translate insight into Advice, Activities and review cycles that support early intervention, strengthen professional judgement and create more consistent responses across settings.
By working from a shared framework, schools and services can coordinate support more effectively while retaining local ownership and flexibility.
Shared understanding then becomes coordinated action.
Services feel joined up to families - not siloed by logo.
You need to demonstrate how investment in wellbeing is being implemented and the difference it is making for children.
Motional helps you bring together evidence of intent, implementation and impact across your local area.
Bring together evidence of progress, implementation and outcomes to support strategic decision-making – helping explain what changed, why it changed, and where support is needed next.
Explain what changed, why it mattered, and what comes next.
Local authorities need approaches that fit existing school and service structures – not additional reporting requirements.
Motional provides a shared framework for understanding Emotional Wellbeing that works alongside existing systems, helping schools and services participate without creating unnecessary workload.
With straightforward rollout pathways, support from experienced education professionals, and around an hour per teacher each term, implementation remains manageable across a local area.
Implementation should feel manageable, not overwhelming.
See how schools, services and local authorities use a shared framework to support Emotional Wellbeing and evidence outcomes over time.
See how shared understanding becomes coordinated action – in under five minutes.
How Barnsley Virtual School, education services and schools are using Motional to improve attendance, reduce exclusions and strengthen support across the authority.
"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
"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.
