FOR PARENTS

Stay in the loop — without ringing the nursery.

A live feed of your child’s day — diary updates, photos, messages, signing requests, and a rotating QR check-in, all in one phone-sized app that doesn’t track you and never tries to upsell you. Your nursery does the hard work; ParentLink shows you what they did, the moment they do it.

Free for parents at any ParentLink-using nursery. No app store download required — works in your browser, installs to your home screen if you want it to.

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YOUR CHILD'S DAILY FEED

Their whole day, in one live feed.

The daily diary, written by the people who were there
Naps, meals, nappies, milestones, observations — your child's key person types it as the day happens. You see the entry the moment they save it. No more 6pm rush at pickup to catch you up.
  • The staff member’s name on every entry
  • Today’s care log — meals, sleeps, nappies — alongside the diary
  • Entries stay in the app while your child is there — when they leave, you can download their photos, videos and diary
A photo gallery you'll actually scroll
Every photo from your child's day, captioned by the staff member who took it. Tap to save your favourites to your camera roll. We auto-thumbnail and never upscale, so albums stay quick to scroll on a phone. Short video clips join the diary too — watch them in the feed and download your own child's.
  • Multiple photos per entry, each individually captioned
  • Photos for each of your children, a tap apart
  • Save any photo to your phone
MESSAGES & REQUESTS

Talk to staff. Ask for things. No more Post-its.

Two-way messaging
Reply to a message from a staff member right from your phone. Staff see read receipts; you see send confirmations. Rather be told by text? Choose that, where your setting's plan includes texts.
Forms you can actually sign
Trip consents, medical forms, photo permissions, emergency contacts — the nursery sends it via the app and you sign with your finger. Auto-archived for your records, GDPR-compliant audit trail for theirs.
Tell them without phoning
Absence, holiday, a session change, a new emergency contact — send it from the app and it lands in the nursery's requests queue for staff to action. No phone call, no note in the bag.
Approved collectors
Granny picking up on Thursday? Ask for her to be added from the app. Once staff approve her, she is on your child’s collection list, and staff can give her her own door PIN, so she never needs your sign-in details. A neighbour collecting just for today? Where your setting offers it, make a one-off pass in the app: one named person, one day, used once.
Holiday notice
Going on holiday? Send the dates from the app. Staff approve them and the register shows your child as away. No emails, no phone tag.
Allergy + medical updates
New EpiPen prescription? Updated dietary requirements? Tell the nursery from the app, and staff update your child's record. You see the allergies and dietary needs the nursery holds on your child's profile.
SIGN-IN AT THE DOOR

Tap the app. Scan the kiosk. Done.

Open the parent app at the kiosk, hold up the rotating QR code, and your child is signed in. The code changes every 30 seconds using the same standard banks use for two-step verification, so an old screenshot stops working within a minute or two.

  • 4 seconds at the door — faster than typing a PIN, faster than fumbling for keys.
  • Or sign them in from Home in the app, where your setting allows it — staff confirm it at the door.
  • PIN fallback for grandparents who’d rather not have the app.
  • Approved-collector flow — staff can give an approved collector their own door PIN, so you never share your sign-in details.
  • A key for each parent and child — your code is yours alone, and a breach at one nursery can’t affect any other.
  • Short-lived — a code stops being accepted within a minute or two of being shown.
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SCHEDULE & ATTENDANCE

See the whole picture, not just today.

Schedule view
A week-by-week view of the sessions your child is booked for, with extra sessions, holidays and closures marked.
Live attendance
Arrival and collection times for the last two months, and the days marked absent. Useful for funded-hour evidence, useful when you forget which day was which.
Care log + medication
Today’s sleep times, nappy changes and meals in your feed as staff log them, and every dose of medicine given, with the time and who gave it.
Fees, bookings and payments
Your invoices, statement and bookings on the Fees page, and pay by card or Direct Debit where your setting takes payments online. Press Explain on a bill to see how it was worked out — the sessions, funded hours, anything taken off and what changed since the last one — and print a Yearly statement of what you were charged and paid over the tax year.
Parents’ evenings
Book a time with your key person for each child, and change it until booking closes. A time is never double-booked.
YOUR DATA, YOUR CONTROL

What we will never do.

No tracking pixels
No Google Analytics, no Facebook Pixel, no Hotjar, no session recording. We don't know which screens you spent time on and we don't want to.
No marketing from us
ParentLink never markets to you. Your nursery may email its own newsletter, and news of spare places — which you can switch off in the app.
One-click data export
Ask your nursery and they can export your child's record for you — profile, attendance, care records, medication, photos, your messages, documents and billing — as a single file, for a GDPR Article 15 request.
Erasure on request
When your child leaves, you can ask the nursery to delete what it doesn’t have to keep by law. It does that itself, from its data-retention settings, and every deletion is logged.
You control notifications
Turn notifications on or off for each device, and choose sound, vibrate or silent. Change it from the app, any time.
Optional two-step verification
Turn on TOTP-based two-step verification from the settings page. Works with any standard authenticator app.

Full detail on the technical controls at parentlinkeducation.co.uk/security and the legal commitments at parentlinkeducation.co.uk/privacy.

Tell your nursery about ParentLink.

You can’t sign up directly — ParentLink is bought by the nursery, not by individual parents. But if your nursery is curious, send them our way.

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