Setting managers
Run day-to-day operations with confidence — attendance, staff, and records without spreadsheet chaos.
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Focus on the children. We will look after the records.
Blackbird EYMS is an Early Years Management System built for UK nurseries, preschools, and childcare groups — designed with setting managers and committees in mind, with security and governance at its core.
Blackbird Central — your management hub
Run your setting from one secure place: children and families, staff and schedules, attendance, medical records, and governance tools committees can rely on.
- Built for UK early years provision, nationwide
- Designed with end users in mind — less frustration, clearer workflows
- Data security, audit trails, and compliance you can stand behind
Built for the people who keep settings running
Committees & trustees
Governance, policies, and compliance visibility designed for oversight, not just administration.
Everything you need to run provision well
We only list capabilities that are ready today. As new features ship, we will add them here.
Children & families
Keep enrolment, contacts, and key-person relationships in one secure place.
Staff
Manage your team across settings with schedules, qualifications, training, absence, and verification.
Sessions, schedules & attendance
Know who is expected, who attended, and who was absent — day by day.
Settings & structure
Organise provision from a single nursery to a multi-site group.
See it in action
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Attendance register
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Governance dashboard
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Child profile
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Security you can trust
Early years settings hold some of the most sensitive data there is. Blackbird is built so you can focus on the children in your care — with confidence that we take data protection seriously.
UK hosting
Your data stays in the United Kingdom, aligned with expectations for early years providers.
Encryption in transit and at rest
Sensitive records are protected with industry-standard encryption.
Isolated audit database
A separate audit store helps you demonstrate who changed what, and when.
Safeguarding-ready architecture
We are building toward isolated storage for safeguarding information as the product grows.
What settings are saying
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Ready to simplify early years management?
Join the waitlist for early access to Blackbird Central. We are onboarding settings ahead of public launch.