Most settings supporting young people outside mainstream education are holding their practice together with spreadsheets, shared folders and the memory of whoever has been there longest. The WILD Practice System replaces that with one way of working, one place to record it, and one route for developing the people doing it.
Wild Minds is a working provision before it is a software company. The Portal exists because the people running it were losing evenings to paperwork that should have taken minutes, and losing the hours that belong to their families and to the young people in front of them.
Every hour the Portal saves on registers, chasing, re-typing and assembling evidence is an hour that goes back where it belongs: to practice, to people, and to the things that do not fit in a spreadsheet.
Three parts, one practice
The methodology
The WILD Framework™
A practice framework for working with children and young people whose needs are not met by mainstream settings. Wellbeing, Interaction, Learning and Development give every plan, session and review the same language.
The day-to-day system your team actually works in: register and attendance, session records, learner plans, safeguarding, compliance and reporting, all written against the Framework.
How practitioners learn to apply the Framework properly, with written work assessed and signed off, and a record of levels and certifications that belongs to the person.
Small and growing AP settings that need one system for attendance, session records, plans, safeguarding and commissioner reporting instead of five spreadsheets.
SEND and specialist settings
Settings supporting learners with EHCPs, high anxiety, trauma or complex needs, where individual plans and regulation support matter as much as timetables.
Community groups and charities
Organisations delivering to referred young people who need credible safeguarding records and evidence of impact for funders.
Schools commissioning AP
Schools and local authorities who want live attendance and progress information about the learners they place, without chasing emails.
Where to start
Look around the Portal
A full working demonstration with fictional data. Nothing you click sends an email or affects anyone's records.
Plenty of settings start with training, and add the software once their team shares one way of working. Others need the records sorted first. Tell us where you are and we will be straight with you about what would help.