EYFS & safeguarding evidence for nurseries and pre-schools

When Ofsted walks in, your staff file is ready.

DBS checks, training, first aid and references, chased before they lapse, evidenced when someone asks. Nothing quietly expires on your watch.

Built by someone who thinks a nursery manager's evening belongs to her, not to the staff file.

Start free, no card

Free for 30 days, no card. £39/month after your free month.

or see where you stand first: five questions, two minutes

Staff file

DBS, safeguarding training, first aid and references: one record per person, chased before anything lapses.

Statutory diary

Accidents, medication, safeguarding concerns and fire drills: timestamped and exportable in one click.

Allergen matrix

Upload your menu and we draft the 14-allergen grid dish by dish. We never guess the allergens; your cook confirms every row against the actual recipes.

The DBS nobody remembered is the one the inspector finds.

Of the inspections between November 2025 and March 2026 that led to formal actions, 540 (71%) related to safeguarding and welfare requirements: record failures, not teaching failures. Ofsted, 2026 →

See it in 15 seconds

The staff file, from one member and one date.

No import, no spreadsheet. One member, one date, and it is already working.

Staff file flow on mobile: sample data Team Add a staff member Name Amira Khan Role Room leader Start date 1 Sep 2026 Add to team → 1. Add a member Amira Khan Room leader PFA certificate on 24 Oct 2023 Renews every 3 years DBS check recorded Add when you have it Save PFA due in 41 days 24 Oct 2026. On the chase list. Saved 10:42am 2. Add one real date Next 90 days 3 staff · 2 renewals coming up Amira Khan PFA · due in 41 days Ben Osei Safeguarding · due in 81 days Chloe Reid All current Monday note sent to you PFA, Amira: 41 days. Nothing else. Chased again before it lapses. Due within 90 days Current 3. The next 90 days, and the chase

Add one staff member and one real date. It shows the next 90 days and starts the chase.

Product illustration with sample data. DBS checks carry no official expiry, so they are recorded, not counted down. See the full feature list →

What we take off your plate

The four things that trip settings up.

The memory tax

Renewals a human brain was carrying

Paediatric first aid every three years, safeguarding every two, a reference before day one. It only takes one to slip out of a spreadsheet nobody remembered to open.

What we do

Every certificate and check on one record per staff member, chased before it lapses, the prompt goes to the right person, not to a spreadsheet waiting to be opened.

Ratio anxiety

"Were we in ratio at 10:40?"

A parent asks about a moment on Tuesday morning. Today, no record exists either way, so you're defending a moment you can't reconstruct.

What we do

A 15-second Room Check gives a timestamped answer per room, per day: met the ratio calculation, or short by one with the fix, written down at the time.

The inspection scramble

The staff file, pulled together at 11pm

The staff file, the checks, the signed policies, the diary, assembled in a panic the night before, or the morning an inspector is already asking for it.

What we do

One consistent, dated story exported in a press: staff suitability records, DBS and first-aid cover, signed policies, the statutory diary, already there.

Policy theatre

A folder no one read or signed

A drawer of policies nobody has read, nobody has signed, and nobody is quite sure is current. It's paper compliance that falls apart the moment it's tested.

What we do

A grounded policy pack, ready to adopt on day one, that your DSL and staff actually e-sign, with an audit trail of who signed what, and when.

The moments this is for

You'll know the moment when it comes.

A new starter begins Monday

Add them tonight and name the referee; the requests go out in the EYFS 3.20 order and are chased for you.

A parent asks about Tuesday, 10:40

The room check from that morning answers in one line, timestamped, written at the time, not remembered afterwards.

The inspector is in the building

The staff file, the signed policies, the diary, exported in a press, because the evidence already exists.

A child with allergies joins

Your menu becomes a confirmed, dated 14-allergen matrix your cook signed off: download the PDF, hand it over.

"Have you all done safeguarding training?"

Send the course to your team by text; take yours on your phone tonight. Records and certificates, kept.

Works alongside Famly, Blossom, Tapestry and the rest: we don't replace your nursery app, we hold the compliance evidence it was never built to keep.

What founding settings say

“Placeholder: one sentence from a founding setting about the day the inspector asked for the staff file.”

Nothing quietly lapses on your watch.

Free for 30 days, no card. £39/month after, about an hour of agency cover.

Why it's this price

No consultant, no binder, no setup call. NurseryGuard does one job: it keeps the staff file live and chases dates before they lapse. That's a solved technical problem that costs little to run, so you pay what the job costs and keep the rest.

Start free, no card

or see where you stand first: five questions, two minutes

Why this exists

Every day I see good businesses buried under rules that keep multiplying, when all they want to do is serve their customers. Most of those rules are fair. The cost of meeting them isn't. Somewhere between the regulator and a small setting sits an industry charging what the market will bear for what a solved problem actually costs to run.

So I built tools that do one job each, at the price the job costs, with no contract. You keep the rest. Let's go and do good work.

Paul Morton, founder