Software for children's homes
Software for children's residential care, built by people who have run it.
Nest makes software for children's homes. Nest Learn is live today, with over 30 CareCPD-accredited courses and the tools to assign, track and evidence staff training across every Home. Nest Portal is next. It will bring care records, staffing, safeguarding, compliance and day-to-day operations together.
Built by people with 30+ years' combined experience running children's homes.
Two products
Start where the pressure is
Training records are usually the quickest pressure to relieve. Nest Learn gets them under control first; Nest Portal brings the rest of the operation together.
Available now
Training and evidence for children's homes
Over 30 CareCPD-accredited online courses ready to assign, plus Learning Paths, a Training Matrix, face-to-face session tracking and evidence across every Home.
- 30+ accredited courses, added to regularly
- Training Matrix across every Home
- Certificates and audit history retained
Nest Portal
Coming 2026
Care records, staffing and operations in one secure place
Portal brings care records, staffing, safeguarding, compliance and day-to-day operations together. Teams can see what needs attention without piecing it together across separate systems.
- Records, care planning and safeguarding
- Staffing, recruitment, leave and training
- Compliance, quality assurance and finance
Why Nest
Children's home software solutions that fit the way homes actually run
Most residential childcare software is adapted from adult social care or generic HR tools. Nest is built specifically for children's residential care: multiple Homes, Home-scoped access, evidence that has to hold up under inspection, and staff who need a clear next action rather than another system to learn.
Everything is designed around the reality of the work. Managers see the operational picture across every Home. Staff see what to start, continue, renew or attend. Records stay organised, separate and ready to show an inspector.
Multi-Home from the start
One Home or fifteen. Each manager sees the Homes they look after; you see the whole organisation.
Evidence that holds up
Completion history, certificates, revisions, corrections and audit logs stay attached to the record.
A clear next action
Staff never have to understand the manager workflow behind a task to know what to do next.
Accredited content
Every Nest Learn course is independently accredited by CareCPD, and certificates can be verified directly.
For providers
Who Nest is for
One picture, every Home
See where training and compliance stand across the organisation without asking four managers for spreadsheets.
Less chasing
Know who is overdue, who needs assignment, and who needs a face-to-face booking, in one view.
Know what's next
Courses to start or continue, sessions to attend, certificates to download. Nothing else to work out.
Ready for inspection
Evidence, revisions and audit trails preserved with the record, ready when you are asked for them.
Get started
See how Nest fits your Homes
A 30-minute call is usually enough to know whether Nest Learn is right for you, and to tell us what Portal needs to handle in your homes.