Demo · Surrey County Council
Local Authority Portal 🏛️

The statutory duties you run on spreadsheets — in one consent-based place.

Surrey County Council · Children's Services. Elective home education, EOTAS, children missing education and the virtual school — with consent built in, not bolted on. Families opt in and see exactly what the LA sees.

EHE children known
342
▲ 96% register-ready
Commissioned placements
28
EOTAS · AP · medical
Avg cost per placement
£5,550
▲ £13.4k under AP average
Monitoring returns filed
100%
▲ automatic, zero chasing

£The cost case, per placement

A commissioned PawSteps placement against the average cost of a traditional alternative-provision placement in the region. Same statutory outcomes tracked — a fraction of the spend.

Typical AP placement
£19,000
regional average, per child, per year
PawSteps commissioned place
£5,550
average, per child, per year · outcomes tracked weekly
£13,450 saved per placement, per year — roughly £376,000 across the current 28 placements, with attendance-equivalent engagement, tutor hours and wellbeing tracked in the same view.
EHE engagement register · consent-based

Families choose to share a light-touch evidence summary instead of hosting visits. Green = sharing; amber = invited; grey = known, not on platform.

🟢Family R. · 2 children, KS2Sharing termly summary · portfolio evidence rich · no actionlast shared
this week
🟢Family O. · 1 child, GCSESharing + Exam Passport visible · entries confirmed for summerlast shared
Monday
🟡Family T. · 3 children, mixedInvited via home-ed group · free family tier offeredinvited
3 wks ago
Family H. · 1 child, KS3Known to EHE team · not on platform · standard process appliesannual
contact due

Sharing is opt-in, revocable, and shows the family exactly what the LA sees. Register-duty ready.

Commissioned placements · live outcomes
Theo, 13 · EBSNA · reintegration ladderstep 5/9
Ava, 15 · medical · GCSE track (3 subjects)on track
Kai, 12 · permanent exclusion · engagementrebuilding · wk 3

Attendance-equivalent engagement, tutor hours delivered, therapy sessions and wellbeing trend — per placement, per week, without a single phone call to a provider.

Children missing education · signals
CME cross-check — 2 platform families moved into the areaSchool-roll check suggests not yet known to your EHE team · details shared with consent
Resolved — placement breakdown risk (Kai) flagged in week 1Extra tutor hours + mentor added before disengagement · now trending up✓ closed

Early-warning flags surface a wobbling placement in week one — while it can still be turned around.

Virtual school · looked-after children

PEP targets tracked against live learning data; Pupil Premium Plus spend mapped to the interventions it bought — and whether they worked.

PEP targets on track (12 children)9 of 12
Virtual school · PP+ accountability

✔️One portal, four statutory duties

The wedge: everything an EHE, AP or Virtual School lead already has to evidence — without the spreadsheet sprawl, and with consent recorded at the point of sharing.

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Elective home education

A consent-based engagement register that families opt into — light-touch evidence in place of doorstep visits, ready for your register duty.

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EOTAS & alternative provision

Commissioned placements with weekly outcomes, tutor hours and cost — RAG-rated and report-ready for commissioning panels.

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Children missing education

Cross-checks flag families new to the area or slipping off-roll, with details shared only where consent allows.

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Virtual school

PEP targets against live learning data and Pupil Premium Plus spend mapped to the interventions it actually bought.

📅See it with your own duties in mind

A 30-minute walkthrough for EHE, AP and Virtual School leads. We map the portal to your team's current process and show what a consent-based register looks like in practice.

PawSteps LA Portal

Priced per authority by cohort size. Pilot on a single duty first, then widen — no long tie-in.