Help shape SEND support for schools — a 2-minute readiness check.
7SevenLabs
You're doing one of the hardest jobs in education
We're a small team building tools specifically for SENCOs, and before we build anything else, we want to understand your world better.
This takes about 4 minutes. There are no right answers. Your responses will help shape what we make next.
The SevenLabs Team
What information do we collect? We collect your answers to the multiple-choice questions and any open-text responses you choose to write.
What we do not collect. We do not collect your name, your school name, or any other identifying information.
Optional communication. If you want to follow our progress, you can optionally leave a contact email.
Your responses are stored securely, used only to inform our product development, and never sold or shared with third parties. To have your responses deleted at any time, email dpo@sevenlabs.uk.
Question 1 of 17
About you
What type of school do you work in?
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About you
How many pupils are currently on your SEN register?
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About you
How long have you been a SENCO?
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Your reality
Outside of direct time with pupils, roughly how many hours a week do you spend on SEND-related admin?
Things like writing reports, emails to parents, coordinating with staff, preparing for meetings.
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Your reality
Which of these takes the most time?
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Your reality
When you're preparing for an annual review or tripartite meeting, what does that preparation actually look like for you?
Walk us through it. There's no wrong answer here.
Your reality
How confident are you that parents genuinely understand their child's SEND support plan?
Not whether you've explained it, but whether they truly understand it.
Not at all confidentVery confident
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Your reality
If a parent, colleague or Local Authority disputed something you'd agreed, how confident are you that you could prove what was said and decided?
This is the question most SENCOs pause on. You're not alone.
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Have you ever wished...
Have you ever written a report or explained something in one way for another professional, then had to rewrite it completely in simpler language for a parent?
We're not judging either way. This is genuinely one of the things we hear most.
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Have you ever wished...
When an inspector asks how you evidence parent and student involvement in the SEND process, how do you feel?
With the new Ofsted SEND thematic reviews underway in 2026, this is coming up a lot.
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Have you ever wished...
When you sit down with a parent for a review meeting, how often do you spend the first 15–20 minutes recapping their child's history before you can talk about what's happening now?
There's no right answer. We're trying to understand where the time actually goes.
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Have you ever wished...
Has a Local Authority or manager ever asked you to do something you weren't sure was legally required of you?
The Children and Families Act is clear on a lot, but SENCOs are often told otherwise.
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Have you ever wished...
How do you currently capture the student's own voice in your review process?
What works, what's difficult, what you wish you could do differently.
Have you ever wished...
If you could change one thing about how tripartite consultations work in your school, what would it be?
Before you go
We're building AI tools designed specifically for SENCOs, to help with exactly the kind of things you've described. Would you like to see what we're working on?
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Before you go
If a tool existed that handled the things you mentioned, what would make you trust it enough to actually use it in your school?
Things like: data privacy, ease of use, evidence base, cost, time to learn...
Almost done
Want one of the ten free pilot places?
We're opening Waypoint Essentials to ten SENCOs shortly, free of charge. Leave your details and we will send the brief, no obligation, no spam. Both fields are optional.
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Sending your responses...
Thank you, genuinely.
We'll be in touch with news of our progress. With your help, we aim to build something genuinely useful that keeps pupil data where it belongs, in school.
The Waypoint team
Thank you.
We'll drop you an invite when we're ready to share what we've built. No spam, just one email, when the time is right.
The Waypoint team
Completely understood, and thank you for your time.
Your feedback is valuable and will help us help the school community.
The Waypoint team
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