Too many children go unseen until problems escalate.
Children experiencing isolation, distress, fear, or disengagement often do not openly ask for help. In busy learning environments, early warning signs can easily be missed until wellbeing concerns become serious.
Schools and early learning providers are under growing pressure to strengthen child safety, wellbeing, and proactive reporting practices while also supporting overwhelmed educators.
Kinnections was created to help educators notice earlier, respond sooner, and strengthen protective environments around children.
The Solution
A practical platform for hearing from every child and identifying concerns earlier.
Kinnections gives schools and early learning services a simple, structured way to check in with children regularly, understand how they are connecting, feeling, and experiencing safety, and identify where support may be needed.
Through the web-based platform and mobile app, educators can conduct regular wellbeing conversations that capture key indicators including peer connection, positive future focus, feelings of safety, and general wellbeing. Responses are collated into clear reports, dashboards, and individual profiles, helping teams respond earlier and ensure children are less likely to fall through the cracks.
A simple weekly conversation can change everything.
Kinnections enables educators to conduct quick, structured wellbeing conversations with children through a secure digital platform available on web, iOS, and Android.
Each check-in focuses on four evidence-informed indicators:
- ConnectionWho does the child feel connected to?
- HopeIs there something they are looking forward to?
- SafetyHave they felt unsafe recently?
- WellbeingHow are they feeling emotionally?
Responses are securely recorded and transformed into real-time insights that help educators identify children who may otherwise go unseen.
See what is happening now, and what is changing over time.
Kinnections dashboards bring responses together in one clear view, helping educators and wellbeing teams identify children who may need support, understand cohort-wide patterns, and track changes over time.
Educator resources and support pathways
Educators and schools already play a vital role in supporting children’s wellbeing. Kinnections is developing a resource and support area to help teams respond with greater clarity and confidence when a child may need additional support.
This future feature will include practical guidance, templates, decision-making tools, and links to useful support pathways, helping schools and services turn early insight into thoughtful action.
Create tailored surveys for your learning community.
Kinnections includes a flexible survey builder, allowing schools and services to ask targeted questions when new issues, concerns, or opportunities arise. Educators can create custom surveys for children, families, or staff using formats such as yes/no, multiple choice, emoticons, and short or long text responses.
Responses are automatically collated into clear, usable data that remains accessible to your school or service over time, helping teams keep wellbeing information in one place and decide what to do next.
Get the Kinnections mobile app
Allowing teachers access to the platform, surveys and reports on their Android or iOS devices.
