HelpMe Digital · For leaving care teams
A recording and listening station for care leaver hubs. A young person records something they want to share. A member of staff listens to it, checks it, and puts it in the collection. From then on, anyone in the room can sit down with headphones and hear it.
Every recording is a leaf. The collection visibly grows as more people take part.
01 / What it is for
When you have to show that young people had a say, a recording in their own words carries weight that a paragraph in a report does not. With consent, services use these for corporate parenting boards, funding bids and inspections.
A term of spoken word, music and performance usually ends the day the project ends. Here it stays, and the young people who made it can go back and hear themselves in it.
A foster carer can record a welcome message ahead of time, so there is a friendly voice waiting when a child arrives. Some services play it in the car on the way.
Advice from the person who moved into their first flat two months ago lands differently from the same advice in a leaflet. Most of the listening is exactly this.
02 / How it works
From their own phone at home, where nobody is watching, or on the device in your space.
A member of staff hears every recording, checks consent, and decides whether it is suitable to share.
Staff add it on the device itself, usually in about a minute. The collection grows visibly as more people take part.
It sits in the collection for other young people to find, until the person who made it asks for it back.
It runs on a tablet in your space, usually in a locked stand with headphones attached. There is no login for the young person, no menu, no settings and no way out of the app. Just the tree and a play button.
03 / What lives in it
The first weeks in a flat of your own. The move that went well, and the one that did not.
Things written and never shown to anyone, sent in from home.
The five things nobody told you, from someone who found out the hard way.
Recorded before a child arrives, so the house has a voice waiting for them.
From group sessions and open mic nights, published so everyone who took part can hear it.
Written and recorded for whoever needs one that week.
04 / Safeguarding
No website, no public address, no cloud service. There is no link that could be found, shared or leaked.
Recordings arrive with staff, not with the station. There is no route from a young person's phone to the screen in the room.
Staff delete and both the entry and the audio file go. Nothing is retained in a bin or an archive.
The tablet is locked to the one screen. No browser, no file access, no upload button. The staff area is hidden and needs a passcode.
We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ZC149336) and are happy to complete your organisation's own security and safeguarding paperwork. If your data protection lead needs written answers to the technical sections of a DPIA, ask and we will send them.
05 / Accessibility
We bring a working station to your service, or walk through it online. No obligation, nothing to install at your end. We are happy to speak to your data protection lead beforehand.
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