Speakr is web-based, so no software installation or special equipment is required – it works in any modern web browser (such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and recent versions of Internet Explorer), and perfectly on iPads.

Any school in the world can sign up for Speakr here: The sign-up process is as simple as possible, though we’re improving it all the time.

If you have any problems with setting up your school, or want to ask a question that isn’t listed here, tweet us at @_Speakr, or email us at support@speakr.co.uk.

Speakr's pricing model is set out on the Pricing page

Each school has a unique Speakr site. The website traffic between the school’s computers and the web servers on which Speakr is hosted is encrypted (meaning that it cannot be read in transit).

Access to a school’s Speakr site is controlled by a combination of user name and passwords for both teachers and pupils – the Speakr team (all of whom have passed disclosure checks) never sees passwords for either staff or pupils.

There is no sharing of information between pupils on Speakr – just between pupils and staff. At least two members of staff can see each interaction, and as a minimum the Head Teacher, Deputy Head, and SENCO can see every interaction in the system.

When we were designing the system, we consulted a computer security expert from Netcraft. (a specialist Internet security firm) to ensure that our system design was as secure as possible. We have also had Speakr thoroughly security tested by Security Alliance.

Usage of Speakr within each school is be subject to the school’s own ICT and safeguarding policies. The data entered by staff and pupils is owned by the school.

Schools are welcome to request a download of the data entered by their own staff and pupils during the pilot period, or at any time.

The Speakr team will use only anonymous data in our reporting, for example to show how children across a certain year group in a school felt on a certain day.

We promise never to reveal the names or entries of pupils, or the messages written between pupils and teachers (these are however, visible to the Head Teacher, Deputy Head and SENCO at a minimum as a safeguarding measure).

All members of the Speakr Technologies team with systems access have passed a Basic Disclosure check by Disclosure Scotland.

Speakr is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK as a Data Controller. This carries a legal responsibility to comply with the principles of the Data Protection Act 2018 in the United Kingdom under the pan-European General Data Protection Regulation 2018.

Our Privacy Policy provides further details on how we approach data security and privacy.

When we were doing our initial research, we found a lot of systems that gathered data about children, on behalf of children, but none that seemed to be built from the child’s perspective.

The idea for the name came from our wish to amplify the voices of children, as a speaker does, but we decided to spell it differently!