The Student Voice is a multi-award-winning platform supporting Designated Safeguarding Leads to capture and understand young people’s experiences in real time. Supporting a contextual safeguarding approach, DSLs can capture and consolidate real-time pupil voice through hotspot mapping of their school, community, home and online, enabling earlier identification of emerging risks, deeper understanding of behaviour in context and more effective responses. By strengthening engagement between schools and students, we help children share concerns sooner. This enables DSLs to enhance their practice through informed insight, support earlier intervention and strengthen their role as strategic partners in multi-agency safeguarding, with greater oversight and stronger evidence for inspections.