LEO Academy Trust
Protecting students in a one-to-one digital environment goes far beyond filtering harmful content. Effective digital safety requires understanding what students are experiencing online and responding early when concerns begin to emerge. See how Leo Academy strengthened student safety at scale with Senso.
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.
“Despite the cost, it’s something we would always fight to keep.”
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.
“Moving to the managed service has saved us hours every single week.”
Reliable Safeguarding Alerts
With Assisted Monitoring in place, leaders gained greater confidence that alerts reaching school teams represented genuine concerns.
Rather than reviewing large volumes of low-level alerts, administrators could focus on situations that required meaningful intervention.
“We’re only alerted to the things that are of real concern from a student safety perspective.”
The Real Impact
Early Intervention Is Now Embedded Across the Organization.
For Leo Academy, the benefits extend far beyond operational efficiency. Senso’s Assisted Monitoring has helped enable:
- ✔ Earlier emotional and wellbeing intervention
- ✔ Stronger engagement with families
- ✔ Responsive updates to digital citizenship and safety education
- ✔ Increased student awareness of digital footprints
- ✔ Greater confidence across safety teams
This combination of intelligent monitoring technology and specialist review provides an additional layer of oversight that supports schools in identifying risks earlier and responding more effectively. Student safety is no longer defined by the number of alerts a school receives.
It’s defined by clarity, confidence, and the ability to intervene early when students need support most.
Interested in Assisted Monitoring?
Whether you are an exsisiting Senso customer reviewing alerts internally or are just exploring monitoring solutions for the first time, our managed service demonstrates the difference between simply recieving alerts to building a structured, scalable safeguarding model. It highlights what an added layer of specialist triage and linguistic insights can deliver.
Reach out to our team to learn more about what our Assisted Monitoring Service can offer.
GET IN TOUCH
