Parent
See the full picture, understand progress, manage the support plan and prepare for meetings.
Learning support, connected
Your child has support.
Now give their support a system.
Alongside brings parents, LSAs and school support teams together around one simple record of every school day — what happened, what worked and how things are changing over time.
$99/year available · Private by design · Cancel anytime
Alongside
Good afternoon, Sarah
Today
Tuesday, 15 September
Emotional regulation
4 / 5
Classroom participation
4 / 5
Independence
3 / 5
Independence
Improving over 30 days
What worked today
“Giving advance notice before the transition to PE helped.”
TransitionsHelpful
Built around the people who know your child best.
ParentsLSAsTeachersSENCOs
The missing picture
So much happens between drop-off and pick-up.
When a child receives additional support at school, small moments matter — how they managed transitions, joined the group, regulated, participated and worked independently.
These observations happen every day. But too often they are scattered across:
WhatsAppnotebooksemailsconversationsmemory
Alongside keeps the story together.
Every school day becomes part of one continuous record that parents and their child's support team can understand together.
The daily report
Five minutes a day. A picture that builds for months.
Alongside gives LSAs a simple, structured way to capture the things that matter — without turning their day into paperwork.
Daily report
Step 2 of 8Daily overview
Choose the level that best reflects today.
Emotional regulation
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Classroom participation
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Following instructions
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Social interaction
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Transitions
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Independence
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Level 4 — Mostly independent. Participated consistently with occasional prompts or reassurance.
LessonsRegulationExercisesToiletingSocialSummary
Clear guidance helps different adults record observations more consistently over time.
Progress
One day tells you what happened. Months show you what changed.
Alongside brings daily observations together so you can see patterns and changes across weeks, terms and school years.
Progress
School yearIndependence
3.8 / 5
2.8Sep
3.1Oct
3.5Nov
3.8Dec
Participation
4.0
Transitions
3.6
Regulation
3.9
Independence
Classroom participation
Emotional regulation
Transitions
Regulation breaks
Social participation
Alongside identifies observational patterns. It does not diagnose conditions or determine why changes occurred.
What works
Stop losing good strategies to memory.
When something helps your child, capture it. Over time, Alongside builds a personalised playbook of the approaches that appear to help most often.
Before difficult transitions
5-minute advance warning
Helpful on14 of 17 occasions
During noisy activities
Quiet regulation break
Helpful on11 of 13 occasions
Joining group activities
Start alongside a familiar peer
Helpful on9 of 12 occasions
Following instructions
Break instructions into individual steps
Helpful on18 of 21 occasions
What works shouldn't disappear when an LSA, teacher or school changes.
The support team
Everyone supporting your child. One shared picture.
LSA
Quickly record school days, observations, strategies, exercises and notable moments.
Teacher / SENCO
Review progress, understand patterns and contribute to support planning.
Administrator
Manage people, permissions and access when required.
You control your child's Alongside space and who has access.
The full picture
Your child's support journey. Organised.
Daily Reports
A consistent picture of every school day.
Progress
Understand how observations change over weeks, terms and years.
What Works
Build a living library of strategies that appear to help.
Support Plan
Keep goals, strategies and reviews together.
Timetable
Give each observation the context of the child's school day.
Exercises & Strategies
Keep agreed activities and instructions accessible to the support team.
Timeline
Capture milestones and important moments.
Meeting Reports
Turn months of observations into useful meeting summaries.
History
Return to any previous school day whenever you need context.
Timeline
Year 2Sep
Joined morning group independently
Milestone recorded by the support team
Oct
Used visual schedule across a full day
Milestone recorded by the support team
Nov
Asked for a regulation break
Milestone recorded by the support team
Dec
Took part in the class assembly
Milestone recorded by the support team
Support plan
CurrentPriority goal
Build confidence during classroom transitions
Approach
Use a clear visual cue and five-minute warning
Success looks like
Moves to the next activity with one prompt
Review
End of Autumn term
Meeting reports
Walk into the next school meeting with months of observations — not months of memories.
Alongside turns everyday observations into a clear picture you can bring into parent-teacher, SENCO and support-plan conversations.
Term progress summary
62 school daysClassroom participation
3.1 → 4.0
Independence
2.8 → 3.7
Strategies most often recorded as helpful
- Advance transition warning
- Visual instructions
- Quiet regulation break
Areas continuing to require support
- Group activities
- Unstructured periods
A clearer starting point for better conversations.
Review recorded changes, commonly helpful strategies and areas that continue to need support. Reports summarise observations; they are not clinical evidence or medical assessments.
Join the waitlistThe goal isn't more support. It's the right support.
Alongside doesn't simply record how much help a child receives. It helps families and support teams see where a child is becoming more confident and independent — and where support is still useful.
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High support
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Guided support
03
Prompting
04
Increasing independence
See where support can evolve as your child does.
Their support team may change. Their story shouldn't disappear.
Children change teachers. LSAs move on. Schools and therapists change. But the knowledge built around a child shouldn't start from zero every time.
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
New School
New Support Team
One continuous picture of the child throughout.
How it works
Useful from day one. More valuable every day after.
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Create your child's space
Set up their private Alongside profile.
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Add their support
Add their timetable, support plan and strategies.
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Invite their team
Invite their LSA, teacher or SENCO.
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Capture each day
Their LSA completes a simple structured report.
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See the picture build
Understand progress, patterns and what appears to work.
Who it's for
For children who need a little — or a lot — of extra support.
Alongside can help families whose children receive additional support with learning, communication, regulation, transitions, participation, social interaction, physical development or independence.
LSA / 1:1 classroom supportSEN / SEND supportAutismADHDSpeech and language needsDevelopmental differencesRegulation challengesMotor or physical supportAdditional classroom support
No diagnosis required.
Alongside is about understanding the individual child — not defining them by a label.
Privacy
Their story isn't anyone else's data.
Alongside is designed around one essential principle: your child's information should remain private.
Private by design
A child's records are not public-facing.
Role-based access
Different members only see what their role allows.
You control access
Parents manage who can access their child's space.
Secure authentication
Accounts are protected through secure sign-in.
Export your history
Families can retain a copy of relevant records.
Delete your data
Families have clear controls over their information.
Simple pricing
Everything your child's support team needs.
Alongside
One child. Their whole support journey.
$9.99per child / month
or $99 per child / year
- Daily reports
- Progress tracking
- Unlimited history
- What Works playbook
- Support plans
- Timetable
- Exercise & strategy library
- Timeline
- Meeting reports
- Parent summaries
- Invite your support team
Join the waitlist today. No payment is taken. Cancel anytime once subscribed.
A continuous picture of your child's school support for about $0.33 a day.
Questions
A few things parents often ask.
Every day of support should build a clearer picture of your child.
Bring their school days, progress, strategies and support team together in one private place.
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