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EDClass is proud to be accredited by the Department for Education as an alternative provider of online education.

This accreditation signifies our commitment to providing high-quality, nationally recognised online education for your child.

Recognised Quality

EDClass courses meet rigorous national standards. Learners receive a valuable education that aligns with curriculum guidelines, ensuring they are well-prepared for their academic journey.

Proven Effectiveness

The DfE accreditation process is comprehensive. You can trust that EDClass has been thoroughly assessed and continuously improves to provide the best learning experience.

Trusted Education

DfE accreditation is a mark of credibility. Your pupil's learning journey with EDClass helps elevate their knowledge and understanding, engagement, confidence and supports successful reintegration in a safeguarded manner.

What is EDClass?

EDClass is a DfE-accredited provider of online education, alternative provision, and whole-school inclusion solutions.

The EDClass platform offers a virtual learning classroom, management portal, and human-led support network equipped with powerful resources to improve outcomes in learning, assessment, behaviour repair, and catch-up.

Rebuilt over the last two years to serve as a live extension of your setting, EDClass delivers real-time live teaching, live support, and live safeguarding for a diverse range of learner needs and cohorts.

Our ecosystem directly addresses the statutory demands of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026, fulfils all safeguarding obligations under Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), aligns with the SEND Reform and Improvement Plan, and provides the unalterable evidence required by Ofsted’s Inclusion Framework.

Whether deployed in physical Inclusion Bases and nurture rooms, or used to provide immediate live-streamed instruction and welfare monitoring during school suspensions and permanent exclusions, EDClass breaks down barriers to learning while multiplying your internal capacity without adding to staff workload.

Meeting Your Statutory Duties in a Changing Landscape

The UK education landscape has shifted. Schools and Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) face unprecedented responsibility under evolving statutory mandates.

EDClass provides the infrastructure, data, real-time engagement, live teaching, live support, and live safeguarding needed to ensure 100% compliance across all key frameworks:

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026
  • Statutory Focus: Universal tracking, preventing children from falling out of education, and maintaining total visibility of vulnerable cohorts.
  • How EDClass Delivers: Automates daily attendance metrics, tracks active study time, and provides seamless virtual classroom connectivity with live teaching and safeguarding support for off-site, dual-registered, or medically absent learners.
Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
  • Statutory Focus: Continuous safeguarding oversight, web filtering, active monitoring of AP/off-site learners, and early DSL alert escalation.
  • How EDClass Delivers: EDSafe functions as a defensive perimeter with real-time web filtering, active search tracking, and instant live welfare alert routing directly to your Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) team.
SEND Reform and Improvement Plan
  • Statutory Focus: Early identification of needs, high aspirations, adaptive teaching, and stigma-free targeted interventions.
  • How EDClass Delivers: EDTeach and EDInclude+ deliver gap-driven, small-group catch-up, live support, and specialist human scaffolding in low-arousal, private virtual spaces designed specifically for SEND and neurodivergent pupils.
Ofsted’s Inclusion Framework
  • Statutory Focus: Quality assurance of alternative provision, high academic ambitions for disadvantaged pupils, and clear evidence of progress and attendance.
  • How EDClass Delivers: Produces unalterable, audit-proof digital archives of attendance, marked work, diagnostic growth metrics, and minuted termly review.
Inclusion Bases and Internal Isolation (IAP)
  • Statutory Focus: Structured, meaningful learning during internal inclusions, detentions, or nurture room placements.
  • How EDClass Delivers: EDInclude replaces dead-time paper worksheets with diagnostic, curriculum-aligned tasks that mark automatically, backed by live support to allow internal staff to focus on reflection while core learning continues
DfE Suspension and Permanent Exclusion Guidance
  • Statutory Focus: High-quality, live-streamed education from Day 6 (or Day 1 for Looked After Children) and structured support to prevent permanent exclusion.
  • How EDClass Delivers: EDLive deploys live timetabled lessons in core subjects alongside live safeguarding from hour one, maintaining academic momentum and providing a calm, structured bridge for successful reintegration.

How EDClass Works in Partnership With You

Personalised Learning

EDClass is a powerful toolbox with a variety of tools that can assist your school or Multi-Academy Trust. This is achieved through personalised learning to match your curriculum, scheduled pathways of study and timetabled support for pupils.

Secure Platform

EDClass works in partnership with schools and Multi-Academy Trusts to constantly monitor pupils learning, attainment, interactions, engagement, and behaviour in a safe and secure learning environment.

Vulnerable Pupils

EDClass offers students the opportunity to catch up on missed work, develop essential skills, and address any underlying issues that may be contributing to their vulnerability. By providing a safe space for students to learn and grow, EDClass can help to prevent them from becoming further marginalised and at risk of harm.

Why Choose EDClass? Recognised Quality and Proven Trust

DfE and OEAS Accreditation

EDClass has successfully been accredited under the Department for Education’s Online Education Accreditation Scheme (OEAS), adhering to rigorous national standards regarding live safeguarding, live teaching quality, leadership, and alternative provision.

EDClass DfE accredited
Recognised Quality

Learners receive a high-value education delivered through live teaching and interactive support that aligns directly with national curriculum guidelines, ensuring they remain well-prepared for their academic journey.

Proven Effectiveness

Thoroughly assessed and continuously evaluated by inspectors, EDClass gives trust leaders complete confidence in our delivery, live support structures, and impact.

Trusted Education

DfE accreditation is a badge of credibility. Your pupils' learning journey with EDClass elevates knowledge, boosts engagement, builds confidence, and supports safe, sustainable reintegration through continuous live safeguarding.

EDClass Modules

The EDArcade module is a dedicated area within EDClass designed to enhance student engagement and reinforce learning through fun and interactive games and puzzles.

EDInclude has been developed to reduce exclusions and suspensions and to increase your teaching capacity within these crucial rooms and units.

EDLive is a central component of the EDClass platform, providing live, timetabled lessons between 9 am and 4 pm UK time.

EDNurture is our dedicated area for fostering the social, emotional, and mental health of your students, particularly those with significant barriers to academic success.

EDSafe ensures that our experienced Safeguarding team are actively monitoring, in real-time, every student’s stream within the EDClass platform.

EDSupport is a powerful blend of scheduled learning, live teaching and on-demand assistance, designed to provide your students with comprehensive and flexible educational support.

EDTeach provides live, subject-specific and topic-specific breakout classrooms linked directly to the learners’ EDClass pathway, making each learner’s pathway unique and personalised to their needs.

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EDClass for Local Authorities

EDClass understands the complexities of fulfilling Section 19 duties and ensuring the safety and well-being of children in need. Our comprehensive online learning platform provides a valuable tool for local authorities to support vulnerable children and young people.

Section 19 Compliance

Provide suitable education for children unable to attend school due to exclusion, illness, or other circumstances

Engagement & Re-engagement

Re-engage disengaged pupils and prevent them from becoming NEET

Virtual School Support

Provide a virtual school head (VSH) with a comprehensive platform to monitor and track the educational progress of looked-after children

Explore EDClass Solutions for Local Authorities

EDClass for MATs & Schools

EDClass understands the unique challenges and opportunities faced by Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs). Our comprehensive educational solutions are designed to empower MATs to achieve their vision, improve educational performance, and foster a positive culture across their schools.

Educational Performance

Improve pupil outcomes through personalised learning, targeted interventions, and data-driven insights

Governance

Streamline reporting, data collection, and compliance processes for efficient governance

Data Analytics & Reporting

Gain insights into pupil performance, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions

Optimise your MAT with EDClass

EDClass for Parents

EDClass empowers parents to actively support their child’s education. Track progress, engage with teachers, and access a secure online platform designed to improve outcomes and inspire learning.

Prioritise safety

All activity is monitored and recorded for your child’s well-being

Personalise learning

Track progress, identify strengths and weaknesses, and tailor lessons to your child’s individual needs

Improve engagement

Increase motivation, reduce exclusions, and offer alternative ways to learn

Choose a DfE-accredited provider for your children