The rising cost of childcare means parents are relying on their extended support networks more than ever. While this is a practical solution for families, it creates a significant challenge for primary schools.

Daily streams of calls and emails come into the school office about changes to people picking up children. Messages are send via various mediums - sometimes there is a password - but, more often than not, teachers are being asked to confidently release children to people they don’t recognise, relying mostly on trust.

This manual system is both time consuming and vulnerable to human error, which can put children's safety at risk.

We believe that the weight of this responsibility should not fall on teachers - they have enough to deal with.

Fetching exists to solve the challenge of collection time for both schools and parents, with a secure system that connects schools, parents and a family's support network.

With Fetching, teachers can see who is collecting each child at a glance, without having to check emails or messaging apps, and office teams can get back to supporting both staff and children.

But that's not all...

By making it easy for parents to share the school run, we hope you will see a reduction in late collections. Some of our schools have reported a reduction in cars at the school gate, as parents use the app to collect extra children when they can.

Fetching can also feed data into your safeguarding platform, if there is any pick-up time behaviour that is causing a safeguarding concern.

Finally, for those children that are allowed to travel home by themselves, our 'left alone' button lets parents know that the child is on their way.

ID verified

With safeguarding at its heart, our platform ensures you have complete visibility over everyone approved to collect each child. Parents invite their support network to connect with them on the app and all app users must verify their identity so that no-one can create a fake profile.

TL;DR

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Why choose Fetching?

• Reduce admin with no more calls and emails about who is picking up.
• Eliminate risk.
• Support parents and the environment by encouraging shared school runs.

To find out more about how Fetching can help your school. Get in touch, today.