Our Vision

No child should be invisible in the system designed to support them.

Bloom exists to fundamentally change how education understands, supports and evidences learners — especially those who don’t fit the standard model.

We are building the UK’s leading Learner Support Platform (LSP) — the infrastructure schools, MATs and local authorities need to deliver truly inclusive, evidence-led support through dynamic digital Individual Support Plans.

Because today, too many children are still unseen.

Not because they aren’t trying.
Not because schools don’t care.
But because the system isn’t designed to capture the full picture.

A broken visibility gap

When a learner struggles to access school — due to EBSA, medical needs, neurodivergence or crisis — what gets recorded is incomplete.

Attendance marks them absent.
Progress data shows gaps.
Reports tell part of the story.

But the reality of the child — their effort, their barriers, their moments of engagement — is often lost.

And when visibility is lost, support becomes inconsistent.
Decisions become delayed.
And children begin to fall through the cracks.

A new model for inclusion

We envision an education system where:

• Every learner is fully visible — not just academically, but emotionally and behaviourally
• Individual Support Plans are live, digital and connected — not static documents
• Data flows across schools, families and local authorities — creating one shared understanding
• Interventions are measurable and responsive — not reactive or assumed
• Support happens earlier — before crisis point

This is the shift from reactive inclusion to proactive, evidence-led support.

What we are building

Our vision is simple, but ambitious:

To become the operational backbone of inclusive education.

A system where:

• Data connects instead of sitting in silos
• Support is structured, visible and accountable
• Parents are empowered partners, not persistent advocates
• Schools can evidence impact with clarity and confidence
• Local authorities can see provision in real time
• And every learner’s journey is understood — as it happens

Why Bloom exists

Bloom started with a very ordinary school morning.

It was raining.
The walk to school felt heavy.
And despite everyone’s best intentions, it just wasn’t going to happen that day.

Kate, Bloom’s founder and CEO of Gaia Learning, is also the parent of a child with SEND.

That morning, she knew her daughter Poppy wanted to learn.
She cared. She was trying.

But the environment, the pressure, and what was being asked of her simply didn’t match where she was emotionally.

What stayed with Kate wasn’t just that her daughter couldn’t go in —
it was how little of that context would ever be visible to the system.

A child shows as absent.
Learning shows as missed.
Progress appears to stall.

But the why —
the anxiety, the effort, the small moments of engagement, the readiness — disappears.

From insight to infrastructure

Bloom was built to capture what the system misses.

To turn invisible experiences into visible data.
To connect support plans to real learning.
To ensure that no child’s story is reduced to a mark on a register.

The future we are working toward

A system where no child falls through the cracks because:

• information was lost
• insight was delayed
• or support wasn’t connected

A system where inclusion is not aspirational — but operational.

Bloom brings clarity to complexity — so every learner can be seen, supported and able to succeed.