--- title: "Blog | Socialheads - Insights on Digital Care and Safeguarding" url: https://socialheads.co.uk/blog/ --- # Our Blog Insights on digital safeguarding, care communication, and building better outcomes for young people and the professionals who support them. Building in public Latest update ## [Four weeks to go](/blog/four-weeks-to-go) I called it the Safeguarding dashboard, and a conversation with a council showed me the same name can fit one service and not another. Plus push notifications, availability, per-service settings, a few important words, and a grant application for the fostering side. [Read the update](/blog/four-weeks-to-go) [Why are we doing this?](/blog/we-set-ourselves-a-challenge) Product Updates 26 Aug 2026 ### [Four weeks to go](/blog/four-weeks-to-go) I called it the Safeguarding dashboard, and a conversation with a council showed me the same name can fit one service and not another. Plus push notifications, availability, per-service settings, a few important words, and a grant application for the fostering side. ![Jeremy](/assets/img/team/jeremy-pitt.jpg) Jeremy 5 min read Product Updates 11 Aug 2026 ### [The quiet weeks](/blog/the-quiet-weeks) Attachments, message flagging, data requests, exports and compliance reports. Ten weeks in, and the stories behind the features. ![Jeremy](/assets/img/team/jeremy-pitt.jpg) Jeremy 5 min read Product Updates 27 Jul 2026 ### [Halfway](/blog/halfway) Group chats, reports with compliance and safeguarding dashboards, message flagging, re-assignment that keep the record. ![Jeremy](/assets/img/team/jeremy-pitt.jpg) Jeremy 5 min read Product Updates 15 Jul 2026 ### [The first real message](/blog/the-first-real-message) The two weeks that turned Socialheads into something you can actually use. Real messaging on phone and desktop, profiles and transparency, agreements and consent, and twice the pace of the last one. ![Jeremy](/assets/img/team/jeremy-pitt.jpg) Jeremy 5 min read Co-design 22 Jun 2026 ### [Shaped with young people](/blog/shaped-with-young-people) Before a single screen becomes real, the people who will actually use Socialheads get the first say. ![Jeremy](/assets/img/team/jeremy-pitt.jpg) Jeremy 5 min read Product Updates 21 Jun 2026 ### [The designs are here](/blog/the-designs-are-here) The part everyone keeps asking to see: the first full look at how Socialheads works, from joining to your first conversation. ![Jeremy](/assets/img/team/jeremy-pitt.jpg) Jeremy 5 min read Product Updates 15 Jun 2026 ### [We set ourselves a challenge](/blog/we-set-ourselves-a-challenge) Eight sprints, sixteen weeks, to build a messaging app that is genuinely safe. Sprint one is done, and the foundations are solid. ![Jeremy](/assets/img/team/jeremy-pitt.jpg) Jeremy 5 min read Industry Insights 25 Nov 2024 ### [Cathedral thinking and the slow work of building Socialheads](/blog/cathedral-thinking-slow-work-building-socialheads) Reflections on building something meaningful over time, inspired by cathedral builders who worked on projects they knew would outlive them. ![Jeremy](/assets/img/team/jeremy-pitt.jpg) Jeremy 5 min read Co-design 7 Nov 2024 ### [Our progress: Co-design in action](/blog/our-progress-codesign-in-action) Over the past year Socialheads has worked with four Experience Haus student groups to explore and challenge every aspect of the platform. Here's what external validation through co-design has taught us. ![Jeremy](/assets/img/team/jeremy-pitt.jpg) Jeremy 5 min read Industry Insights 1 Nov 2024 ### [Starting Socialheads: A founder's story](/blog/starting-socialheads-founders-story) Before starting Socialheads I worked on digital projects in the charity sector. This is how I moved from seeing the same patterns over and over again to building a solution. ![Jeremy](/assets/img/team/jeremy-pitt.jpg) Jeremy 5 min read Safeguarding 25 Oct 2024 ### [Why WhatsApp isn't suitable for social care work](/blog/whatsapp-not-suitable-social-care) WhatsApp is widely used in practice because it works and young people respond to it. But it was not designed for safeguarding, case recording or organisational oversight. ![Jeremy](/assets/img/team/jeremy-pitt.jpg) Jeremy 5 min read Co-design 18 Oct 2024 ### [Tech that listens: Designing for relationships, not just workflows](/blog/tech-that-listens-designing-relationships) A lot of technology in social care has been bought to manage data, not relationships. Yet research shows children engage better when workers have time and adapt to the child's way of communicating. ![Jeremy](/assets/img/team/jeremy-pitt.jpg) Jeremy 5 min read Industry Insights 12 Oct 2024 ### [The future of safe communication in social care](/blog/future-safe-communication-social-care) Social care is using technology that is not keeping up with practice. The future direction is not more apps, but better sector-specific tools that sit alongside existing systems. ![Jeremy](/assets/img/team/jeremy-pitt.jpg) Jeremy 5 min read No articles found in this category. ## Stay updated Want to stay informed about digital safeguarding and care innovation? Get in touch and we'll keep you updated. [Get in touch](/contact) ## Ready to get started? Socialheads is built and working today. See what it does and what it costs. [Get started ](/get-started)[Explore features](/features)