Beyond Monitoring to Meaningful Student Safety Impact

Leo Academy is a multi-school organization serving students across 14 elementary campuses. Technology is embedded throughout teaching and learning, with a one-to-one device model supporting students across all schools.

With that level of digital access, increased student safety demand quickly became a new reality.

✔ Online activity continued to grow
✔ Monitoring captures increased significantly
✔ Online behaviours became more complex

From Alerts to Understanding

Filtering was in place. Monitoring was active.

But school leaders recognized that effective protection required more than simply receiving alerts. They needed to identify patterns, understand emotional signals, and recognize emerging risks across their schools.

As Emma Dallimore, Director of Safeguarding, explains; “It allows us to build that much bigger picture of what’s going on for a child and young person.”

The challenge wasn’t lack of data. The challenge was turning that information into timely insight and meaningful intervention without overwhelming student safety teams.

Why LEO Academy Trust Chose Senso

As digital student safety challenges grew more complex, the organization conducted a detailed review of monitoring providers while implementing its filtering and monitoring strategy. Leaders evaluated reporting clarity, how monitoring captures were contextualized, the level of safety expertise provided, responsiveness of support, and overall value.

Over time, Senso’s monitoring platform became an important part of the organization’s student safety approach. It helped school leaders identify behavioral patterns, recognize emotional signals, and adapt support strategies based on real online activity across their schools.

However, as device usage continued to grow, the volume of monitoring alerts increased as well. While monitoring was providing valuable insight, reviewing large volumes of alerts across multiple schools was becoming increasingly time-intensive for safety teams and administrators. To strengthen oversight while protecting staff capacity, the organization introduced Senso’ Managed Monitoring Service.

The impact was immediate. With professional triage in place, monitoring alerts were reviewed, prioritized, and contextualized before reaching school staff making it easier for leaders to focus on the issues that truly required attention.

Real Outcomes

Clearer Insights. Reduced Workload. Greater Confidence.

For LEO Academy Trust, introducing Senso Managed Monitoring strengthened safeguarding across the trust while protecting DSL capacity.

Clear Safeguarding Insights

Monitoring insights enabled leaders to move beyond isolated alerts and begin identifying broader patterns in student behavior and wellbeing across schools.

Emerging themes around student wellbeing and online behavior became easier to recognize, helping the organization respond earlier and adjust student safety strategies when needed.

Reduced Safeguarding Workload

With Assisted Monitoring in place, every capture is reviewed by trained student safety professionals. False positives are filtered out and genuine concerns are prioritized before alerts reach school teams.

This significantly reduced the time DSLs spend reviewing alerts and allowed safeguarding teams to focus more on supporting pupils.

LEO Academy Trust