- Assessments.
- Achievements.
- Learning evidence.
- Strengths.
- Support strategies.
- Projects.
- Qualifications.
- Reflections.
Years of information that may still matter long after school.
EdiWay is designed so an eligible learner can move from their child or student account into an Adult Learner Record from age 18, keeping appropriate parts of their education journey connected.
- Continue learning.
- Protect useful evidence.
- Manage who has access.
- Prepare for future assessments.
- Take your learning history into adulthood.
And later, if you become a parent or carer, keep your own learner journey while supporting the next generation.
Protect Your Learner Journey
- From 18
- Learner-Controlled Access
- Continuing Evidence
- Age-24 Reminder
- A learner joins.
- The school creates their record.
- The learner leaves.
- The school relationship closes.
- EdiWay is designed around a wider idea:
Attending School
The learner is actively connected to their current school.
Moved to Another School
The previous school can record that the learner no longer attends. The previous school relationship becomes historical rather than deleting the learner’s wider identity.
Home Educated
The learner can move into a family-led Home Education pathway.
Adult Learner
From age 18, an eligible learner can move into an Adult Learner Record.
Parent or Carer
Later in life, that same adult may also hold a parent or carer relationship to another learner. The person’s EdiWay journey can therefore evolve without creating a completely unrelated identity at every stage.
No Longer Attends
The learner has left the school.
Moved to Another School
The learner is continuing elsewhere.
Home Educated
The learner has moved into a family-led education pathway.
This protects continuity while keeping the former school’s responsibilities and access boundaries clear.
- Old School → Historical Relationship
- Learner → Continues
- New School → New Authorised Relationship
The learner does not need to become an entirely different person simply because the school changed.
Learning Plans
Plan around the learner and family.
Routines
Create flexible weekly structures.
Resources
Access appropriate EdiWay learning material.
Activities
Organise learning at home or in the community.
Evidence
Continue building the learner portfolio.What matters for the learner’s future?
Reflections
Record what has been learned.
Progress
Review the journey over time.
Professional Support
Invite authorised tutors or professionals where appropriate.
EdiWay Resources
Learning material made available through the wider EdiWay environment.
Public School Resources
Where participating schools choose to make suitable learning resources publicly available, home-educated learners can access those resources through the appropriate platform experience.
Learner Resources
Use material suitable for the learner’s education pathway.
Continuing Evidence
Connect appropriate activities and evidence back to the learner’s own journey. A school’s private teaching material remains controlled. Making one resource public does not open the school’s internal resource library or learner records.
- Learning plans
- Home routines
- Resources
- Projects
- Evidence
- Learning journals
- Parent observations
- Learner reflections
- Future transition
A home education routine remains different from a statutory school attendance register.
Home Educated is an education pathway – not an absence status.
Review
What learner history is important?
Export
Is there information available for export that the family wants to retain?
Evidence
Are there projects, assessments or learning records that may be useful later?
Transition
Could the learner need this information for school, college or another pathway?
Confirm
Only complete removal once the family understands what continuity may be lost. The aim is not to prevent a family leaving. It is to prevent useful education history being lost accidentally.
Qualifications
Keep achievements and results easier to find.
Educational Assessments
Preserve useful historical assessment context.
Learning Evidence
Keep selected work and portfolio material.
Achievements
Maintain a longer view of progress.
Strengths
Remember where the learner has succeeded.
Aspirations
Continue developing future goals.
Learner Voice
Keep the learner’s own reflections connected.
Support Strategies
Remember approaches that have previously helped.
Transition Information
Keep useful context from earlier moves.
Learner Voice
Maintain appropriate learner-accessible documents.
Future Learning
Continue adding new educational evidence during adulthood. The goal is not simply to archive school. It is to create continuity for what comes next.
Keep
What should remain part of the adult learner journey?
Organise
Are qualifications, assessments and evidence easy to find?
Export
Does the learner want a personal copy of information available for export?
Update
Are old relationships or permissions still appropriate?
Continue
What evidence will remain useful for education or professional development?
Share
Does the learner need selected information for a future assessment, college or training provider? The reminder provides time to act before, rather than years after, important historic school information may no longer be available from the original school.
Age 18
Move from the child/student account into the Adult Learner Record.
Ages 18–23
Continue adding appropriate achievements, evidence and learning.
Age 24
Receive the learner-record reminder.
Before 25
Review, organise and where available export important education information.
Age 25+
Continue using the Adult Learner Record according to EdiWay’s applicable adult-account privacy and retention arrangements. The school retention period can end. The adult learner journey can continue.
- College
- Further education
- Training
- Apprenticeship pathways
- Higher education
- Professional learning
- Independent study
- New qualifications
- Career development
- Personal development
Adult learning can create new evidence and achievements while preserving appropriate context from earlier education.
Learning Resources
Access suitable educational material.
Public Resources
Use appropriate resources made available for wider learner access.
Continuing Education Material
Support new learning and development.
Evidence Tools
Continue building a learning portfolio.
Learner Opportunities
Discover appropriate learning and development opportunities within the wider EdiWay ecosystem. Some resources remain restricted according to age, learner type, organisation or publisher settings.
Ask Questions
Discuss appropriate learning topics.
Share Experience
Learn from other adult learners.
Explore Resources
Discover useful learning material and ideas.
Discuss Pathways
Talk about education, training and future development.
Continue Learning
Remain part of an education-focused community after school. Adult spaces should remain appropriately separated from restricted child/student spaces. Account type, age and permissions continue to shape access.
- past education + present learning + future development
- school finished = account finished
- Previous learning difficulties
- Previous assessments
- What support they received
- What strategies worked
- School experiences
- Earlier observations
- Qualifications
- How needs changed over time
Assessment Context
What was explored?
Findings
What did the previous assessment record?
Evidence
What information supported it?
Strengths
What positive areas were recognised?
Strategies
What support was recommended or found useful?
Review History
What changed over time? Historical assessment information provides valuable context. It does not automatically establish that the same conclusion remains current today.
- Educational assessment
- Dyslexia assessment
- Learning-support review
- Professional consultation
- College support assessment
- Workplace learning discussion
Where appropriately available, their existing learner history can help them prepare. Instead of relying entirely on memory, the adult can return to relevant evidence from earlier education. EdiWay organises the history. The appropriately qualified person makes any new professional or diagnostic conclusion.
Adult Learner
Their own learning history, assessments, evidence and continuing education.
Parent or Carer
An authorised family relationship to their child’s learner journey.
- Their own record remains separate.
- The child's record remains separate.
- The relationship connects them without merging their information.
- Dyslexia
- Literacy difficulties
- Numeracy difficulties
- Communication needs
- Attention-related learning needs
- Sensory differences
- Previous educational screening
- Learning strategies
- Other learner-support history
Where the adult chooses to share appropriate information, EdiWay can help highlight that relevant family learning history exists. That can give parents, SENCOs or authorised professionals another piece of context when understanding a child’s learning.
- Has dyslexia because a parent does
- Has ADHD because a parent has relevant history
- Is autistic because a parent is autistic
- Requires SEND provision because of family history
- Needs a particular intervention
- Should receive a referral
- Has inherited a particular educational need
Identify
The adult chooses to make relevant family history available.
Attribute
Keep clear that the information belongs to the parent’s own history.
Highlight
Show authorised users that potentially relevant family context exists.
Review
Consider it alongside the child’s own evidence.What support was recommended or found useful?
Decide Humanly
Allow teachers, SENCOs, families and appropriately qualified professionals to determine whether further assessment or support is appropriate.
Parent
Keeps their own Adult Learner Record.
Child
Has their own learner record.
Relationship
EdiWay records the appropriate parent/carer connection.
Parent History
Remains attached to the adult.
Shared Family Context
Can be contributed where the adult chooses and the workflow permits.
Child Assessment
Continues to be based on the individual child’s own evidence and human review. This is an important distinction. The platform can connect context without turning family history into an automated conclusion.
A person may begin as:
A Child Learner
Supported by school and family.
Then become:
A Home-Educated Learner
Learning through a family-led pathway.
or:
A Learner at Another School
Continuing under a new school relationship.Discover useful learning material and ideas.
Then become:
An Adult Learner
Taking greater control of their own education journey.
And later:
A Parent or Carer
Supporting another learner.
While still remaining:
An Adult Learner
Continuing their own learning, qualifications or development.
Learner Evidence
Remains attributable to the learner.
Family Evidence
Remains attributable to the family.
School Assessments
Remain attributable to the school and authorised staff.
Qualifications
Remain attributable to their education or awarding source.
Professional Reports
Retain professional authorship.
Safeguarding Information
Remains separately governed.
Medical Information
Retains its appropriate source and access restrictions. EdiWay protects continuity without rewriting history.
Parents and Carers
Should their access continue?
Previous School
What historical relationship remains?
Professionals
Is their involvement still active?Remain attributable to the school and authorised staff.
New Providers
Does a college, tutor or training provider need selected information?
Information Scope
What can each relationship access?
Expiry
How long should access last?
Revocation
Should access now end? Becoming an adult should create the opportunity for greater control -, not permanent childhood permissions.
- Education evidence
- Selected assessments
- Qualifications
- Achievements
- Learner-created work
- Appropriate documents
- Transition information
Export rights remain separate from ordinary viewing rights. Sensitive, third-party, safeguarding or organisation-owned information may have additional restrictions.
School → College
Adult Learner Record
Used to continue the person’s own EdiWay learner journey beyond childhood.
For example:
School Learner → Adult Learner → Continuing Learner → Parent
A transition pack helps information travel. The Adult Learner Record helps the learner journey continue.
Education Summaries
Prepare a working overview of selected history.
Evidence Organisation
Help organise learner evidence.
Assessment Preparation
Summarise relevant previous educational information for human review.
Strengths
Bring together documented strengths and achievements.
Transition Preparation
Help prepare information for another education setting.
Goal Planning
Help the learner structure future learning goals.
Family Context
Help organise selected family-provided information for review. AI output remains a draft.
EdiWay AI does not:
- Diagnose the adult
- Diagnose their child
- Determine inherited learning needs
- Decide SEND status
- Determine assessment outcomes
- Determine legal data ownership
- Decide what information must be disclosed
- Replace qualified professional judgement
1. Create the Learner
The school or family establishes the learner in EdiWay.
2. Connect the Family
An appropriate parent or carer relationship becomes linked.
3. Learn
Build education, evidence, achievements and learner history.
4. Change School
The previous school marks that the learner no longer attends. The learner continues.
5. Move Into Home Education
Where applicable, change the learner pathway rather than deleting the learner.
6. Continue Learning
Use appropriate EdiWay and publicly available school resources.
7. Reach 18
Move into the Adult Learner Record.
8. Review Access
Reconsider family, school and professional relationships.
9. Continue as an Adult Learner
Use resources, evidence tools, learning opportunities and the EdiWay Forum.
10. Reach 24
Receive the education-record review reminder.
11. Prepare Before 25
Review, organise and where available export important information.
12. Continue Learning
Keep adding evidence, achievements and future education.Review, organise and where available export important information.
13. Become a Parent or Carer
Create an appropriate family relationship to another learner without losing the adult’s own learner history.
14. Share Relevant Family Context
Where chosen and appropriate, allow previous education history to inform – but never determine – the child’s learning-support conversation.
An eligible learner can move from their child/student account into an Adult Learner Record, keeping appropriate education history and gaining greater control over their continuing learner relationships.
Once an appropriate parent or carer relationship has been established, the school manages its relationship with the learner rather than simply deleting the learner from the wider EdiWay ecosystem.
The school can instead record that the learner has left, moved school or become home educated.
The previous school can mark that you no longer attend.
Your wider learner journey can continue while a new school establishes its own authorised relationship where appropriate.
Your learner pathway can change to Home Education.
You and your family can continue appropriate planning, resources, learning and evidence through EdiWay.
Where a participating school has specifically made an appropriate learning resource available for public learner use, home-educated learners can access that resource through the relevant EdiWay experience.
Private school resources remain private.
Where the applicable family-led account controls allow it, the parent or carer can choose to end the learner’s continuing EdiWay account.
We recommend reviewing and exporting important available learner information first.
Because qualifications, assessments, learning evidence, achievements and support history can remain useful throughout adulthood.
Current DfE guidance in England says secondary-school pupil records are generally kept until the pupil’s 25th birthday and then securely disposed of.
Other categories of records can have different retention requirements.
Yes.
The Adult Learner journey is designed to provide a reminder at age 24 so you can review important education information before the 25th-birthday milestone.
Yes.
Adult Learner accounts are designed for continuing education, learning evidence and future development
Yes.
Adult learners can access appropriate resources and learning opportunities made available for their account and learner type.
Yes.
Adult Learner accounts can access the EdiWay Forum and appropriate community features available to adult learners.
Adult and child/student spaces remain appropriately separated.
Appropriate historic educational assessment information can provide useful future context where available through the continuing learner record.
They may provide useful historical evidence.
The qualified professional conducting the new assessment remains responsible for their own conclusions.
Yes.
The same EdiWay person can retain an Adult Learner Record while also gaining an appropriate parent or carer relationship to their child.
No.
Your own learner record and your relationship with your child remain separate.
Potentially.
Where you choose to provide relevant family history through an appropriate workflow, it can be highlighted as useful context for human review.
No.
A parent’s education or assessment history never automatically determines a child’s diagnosis, SEND status, provision or intervention.
No.
Your assessment remains part of your history.
Any relevant family context remains attributable to you and must be considered separately alongside the child’s own evidence.
No.
School, professional, safeguarding and medical records retain their own ownership, retention and access rules.
The Adult Learner Record preserves appropriate learner continuity rather than removing those boundaries.
Transition Packs & Learner Continuity
Move selected information between education settings without starting again.
Home Education
Continue the learner journey when education moves from school to family-led learning.
Qualifications, Results and Destinations
Keep appropriate achievements and future pathways connected.
Educational Screening and Learner Support Profiles
Use current evidence and appropriate history to support human-led learner understanding.
Professional Collaboration
Bring authorised professionals into a defined learner relationship.
Permissions, Consent and Information Sharing
Review who can access information as relationships change through adulthood.
- A school can manage whether the learner currently attends.
- A family can continue through Home Education.
- A learner can become an Adult Learner from 18.
- An adult can continue learning and using appropriate EdiWay resources.
- At 24, the adult learner can be reminded to review their education information before the secondary-school pupil-record retention milestone at 25.
- And later, the adult learner can become a parent or carer without losing their own education history.
As EdiWay remains in beta testing, individual lifecycle, notification, export, adult-community and cross-generation workflows continue to be tested and refined.
The principle remains consistent:
Keep the learner at the centre.
- Learner-Centred
- Permission-Aware
- Education Continuity
- Family and Professional Collaboration
- Human-Reviewed AI