Making trips safer for students & easier for teachers
The school trip safeguarding app for UK schools
TripAid is the school trip safeguarding app for UK schools. It gives teachers real‑time visibility of pupil locations, secure messaging groups and clear emergency contact details on every visit, so every school trip is safer and easier to manage.
With TripAid, staff can quickly check who is safe, who needs help and who is off‑schedule, without sharing personal phone numbers or contact details. Trips stay under control, communication is logged, and safeguarding responsibilities are easier to evidence.
WHAT IS TRIPAID ?
An app that makes safeguarding every school trip easier
TripAid is the school trip safeguarding app that gives teachers greater control and clearer oversight on every educational visit. With real‑time pupil location, trip‑specific messaging and instant access to key contacts, staff can see who is safe, who needs help and who is off‑schedule at a glance.
Students can contact the right teacher when they need support, without ever sharing personal phone numbers or social profiles. All communication stays within TripAid, helping your school stay GDPR compliant and preventing pupils from messaging each other, so trips feel safer for everyone.
Ready to see how TripAid could support safeguarding on your next school trip? Use the “Get in touch” form below and a member of our team will arrange a short demo for your school.
Locate Students
TripAid gives teachers a live view of where pupils are on school trips, improving control, safeguarding and confidence on the move.
Communicate
Teachers and students can message each other one‑to‑one in text only, while teachers can also send group messages when plans change on the trip.
Data Security
TripAid keeps personal phone numbers out of the app and removes user access at the end of the trip, supporting GDPR compliance and protecting everyone’s privacy.
" Because the Safety of your students matters to us "
How It Works?
A Step by Step Guide
- Create your trip!
- Review your trip!
- Start your trip!
For your pupils’ security, every group in TripAid is created by your school’s Educational Visits Coordinator. Once they log in to the website, they can set up a new trip in just a few clicks.
They simply select the start time, end time and trip name, and TripAid generates two unique join codes: one for teachers and one for students to use in the app before the visit.
Before the visit begins, teachers can log in and review the trip details, including the list of pupils who have joined with their code. This gives staff a clear picture of who should be on the trip and who they’re responsible for.
Any last‑minute changes to times, staff or pupils can be made here, so everything is correct before you start the live trip in the app.
When you’re ready to leave, teachers simply tap to start the trip in the app. TripAid then shows live pupil locations and keeps all trip messages in one secure place for the duration of the visit.
At the end of the trip, staff can end the session and return everyone to their usual school routines, with no phone numbers shared and no ongoing group chats.
TripAid for Schools, Teachers, Students and Parents
For Schools
TripAid is designed to be easy to administer for schools. In under a minute, an EVC can create a new trip, receive unique teacher and student codes by email, and share them securely before the visit.
For Teachers
TripAid gives teachers greater control of their school trips. You can see where pupils are, send one‑to‑one or group messages and deal with issues quickly, without sharing personal contact details.
For Students
TripAid helps students feel safer and more independent on school trips. They can see where nearby teachers are on a map and send a quick text message if they need help, get lost or have a question.
For Parents
TripAid reassures parents that teachers can locate and message their child during an educational visit, just as they can at home. Any issues on the trip can be handled quickly, helping keep children as safe as possible.
" I used TripAid on our school trip to Nice last October.
I found it very reassuring to have the students' locations at my fingertips. Students pick up messages from the app with no trouble and used it to reply, for example when they couldn't find the precise meeting point.
Highly recommended and a good component to an overall safety plan! "
Bob Westerdale, TEACHER
