Built by People Who Understand Your World
LearnTrek was created by people with first-hand experience of Alternative Provision. Having seen the day-to-day challenges education providers face, we built a platform that makes safeguarding, compliance and reporting easier to manage, giving teams more time to focus on supporting children and young people.
Every feature has been shaped by the realities of specialist education. Automated reminders prompt staff to complete attendance marks, record engagement scores, log safeguarding information and confirm they've read key policies, such as Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE). This reduces the need for leaders to chase missing information, helping maintain setting-wide compliance while reducing administration across the team.
Our Story
LearnTrek began with a simple problem: most management and reporting systems were never designed around the realities of Alternative Provision and specialist education.
Teams were duplicating information, building reports by hand and trying to evidence progress through systems made for mainstream settings. Our founders had experienced those pressures first-hand and knew there was a better way.
They created LearnTrek to reduce administration, improve visibility and make meaningful progress easier to evidence. The platform now supports AP, specialist education, independent schools and SEND services, and continues to evolve alongside the sector.
The People Behind LearnTrek
LearnTrek was built by people who have worked inside alternative provision and specialist education, not by a product team looking in from outside. That experience still shapes the platform today, and it's the same experience the team brings to every setting they work with.
Dr Alexandra Gray
Founder
Dr Alexandra Gray
Founder
Alex has spent her career in senior leadership across non-school alternative provision and independent special schools. Frustrated by the lack of systems built for AP, she created LearnTrek to help settings properly recognise their pupils' achievements. She continues to write and consult on alternative curriculum design, and chairs the ALIGN National Executive Board, the UK's representative body for non-school AP.
Dr Catherine Brennan
Customer Account Manager
Dr Catherine Brennan
Customer Account Manager
Catherine is a safeguarding specialist who has worked at a senior level across alternative provision and with young people experiencing homelessness, including as Head of School for an independent special school. She now consults on complex safeguarding investigations, including for the Ministry of Defence, and has authored and delivered training on safeguarding and behaviour management across specialist and mainstream settings.
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Fran Short
Customer Account Lead
Fran Short
Customer Account Lead
Fran has worked across maintained and non-maintained alternative provision for over twenty years, specialising in 1:1 support for children and young people at risk of exclusion. Her most recent role as a senior leader in an unregistered AP setting gives her a close understanding of the adaptations our customers often need, and she leads on system implementation at LearnTrek.
Mia Brown
Customer Account Lead
Mia Brown
Customer Account Lead
Mia's background is in 1:1 tutoring, supporting hundreds of children and young people who need extra help, and embedding literacy and numeracy into creative and practical learning. At LearnTrek, she works alongside Fran to help customers get set up and adapt the system to their needs.
Sam Kane
Helpdesk Lead
Sam Kane
Helpdesk Lead
Sam studied Digital and Cyber Security at the University of Winchester and leads the helpdesk team, the first point of contact for customer enquiries. He also manages the flow of bespoke development work, helping shape new features as the needs of the sector change.
What Guides LearnTrek
More time for what matters.
To reduce administrative burden so education professionals can spend more time supporting pupils.
Make progress visible.
Give providers the tools to evidence meaningful progress and strengthen safeguarding.
Trusted across the sector.
Support confident decisions for every learner across AP, SEND and specialist education.
What We Stand For
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Built Around Practitioners
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Always Improving
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Safeguarding First
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Making Progress Visible
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Trusted Partnerships
More Than Software.
A Team That Understands Education.
Technology works better when the people behind it understand your setting.
Many of our account managers have worked in Alternative Provision, bringing first-hand experience of safeguarding, inspections and reporting.
You’ll speak with people who understand the pressures you face and can help you get more from LearnTrek.
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Built With the Sector. Built for the Sector.
Every improvement is shaped by feedback from schools, providers and organisations — helping teams spend less time managing systems and more time making a difference.
SHAPED BY REAL SETTINGS