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What’s new

New platform coming soon

A rebuilt library, faster downloads to the headset and year-group assignment moved into the portal. Your practitioners will not need to relearn anything, and every existing lesson plan still applies.

We will email portal administrators two weeks before the change, with a short run-through for staff.

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Schools & MATs

Access our dedicated Schools & MATs hub for practical resources, guidance and support. Explore programme information, download risk assessments and consent forms, and discover how our immersive training can support staff and pupils through greater awareness, early intervention and trauma-informed practice.

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Further education

In our dedicated Further Education hub, you\u2019ll find practical resources, guidance and support. Explore programme information, download essential documents, and discover how our immersive training can help staff raise awareness of serious violence, knife crime and exploitation, empowering them to create safer learning environments and better support their students.

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Adopt South – the regional adoption agency made up of Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth and Southampton City Councils – is using a VR experience…more

Helen Costa is the founder of Cornerstone, a social enterprise focused on improving the lives of children and families touched by the care system. She talks to Jenna Lomax about how virtual reality can improve vulnerable lives…more

Technology in Children’s Services: Policy Context: At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends…more

We don’t prepare people for the huge challenge of adoption: Shocked at how ill-equipped she felt as an adoptive parent, the social entrepreneur started to make VR films from the child’s perspective…more

VR technology which allows social workers to experience abuse through a child’s eyes to be used to cut gang crime: Virtual reality technology which allows social workers to experience abuse through a child’s eyes…more

Virtual reality used to help adoptive parents: BBC experiences virtual reality first hand to see how it is being used to help adoptive parents to understand the traumatic past of their child…more

Virtual Reality And Immersive Tech: The Great Health And Social Policy Revolution?: Social care is, by definition, how society supports the welfare of others – the young, old and vulnerable in our society who rely on this support to keep them safe…more

NHS Trust pioneers use of Virtual Reality for safeguarding training: An NHS Trust Hospital in Dartford, Darent Valley Hospital, is pioneering the use of Virtual Reality for their Safeguarding Training…more

NHS Trust pioneers use of Virtual Reality for safeguarding training: The VR training programme fits well within the aims and objective of the Think Family model and complements the training for the workforce….more

Antser calls for more awareness about child sexual exploitation: Social care solution provider Antser has called for more to be done to tackle the issue of child sexual exploitation throughout the year…..more

Council trials virtual reality project to prevent domestic abuse: The results of a trial using virtual reality storytelling to prevent domestic abuse has seen nine out of ten participants not re-offend more than a year later…more

Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford uses virtual reality for child abuse safeguarding training: Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford has started using the immersive tech to aid learning in the workplace…more