TETHERX FOR NURSERIES // DAY NURSERY // PRE-SCHOOL // GROUP // MULTI-SETTING
Only the right grown-up walks out with the child.
A manager needs to know who was at the door at collection. A room lead needs the handover logged, not remembered. A group head needs the same standard across every setting without driving to each one. TetherX gives every role the view they need, scoped to their nursery, on one login - footage stays private, never streamed.
- Named-access audit trail - every view, every share, every download logged.
- Secure door entry on every entrance - authorised carers in, no tailgating.
- US data residency by default. Privacy-first - no public streaming to parents.
Quote routed direct to a TetherX-accredited local installer who knows early years settings. No central sales call.
A day on TetherX
Accreditations across the TetherX installer network
TetherX partners hold the accreditations security-procurement buyers and insurers filter on. Coverage varies by partner.
Counts reflect partners currently in the TetherX directory holding each accreditation.
When a parent raises a concern, the record is already there.
An allegation in a nursery is frightening for everyone - the family and the staff member named. A calm, named-access audit trail protects both: it shows exactly who was in the room, who collected the child, and who looked at the footage afterwards. TetherX is built around that record, so a worried parent gets answers and a good practitioner gets cleared.
Named-access audit log
Every view, share and download is recorded against the named user. When a parent or the local authority asks who looked at footage of their child, the manager has the standing answer Ofsted and the trustees both expect - not a memory or a maintenance log.
Signed evidence for the LADO
A signed link with a configurable expiry drops a handover or collection clip in the LADO officer's inbox - or the local authority designated officer, or the group safeguarding lead. No USB stick passed across reception, no chain-of-custody arguments.
SARs & DPA-2018 ready
When a Subject Access Request lands from a parent, your DPO has every view and share already logged. Answer in days, not weeks. Optional clip-redaction handles other children's faces in the same recording - exactly what a nursery SAR needs.
Manager, room lead & head office scope
A group head office sees every setting. A nursery manager sees only theirs. A room lead sees only the rooms they're named on. Same dashboard, three different scopes - configured once at onboarding, audited the same way across every site.
No cameras in nappy-change or toilet areas. Ever.
The most sensitive moments of a nursery day happen in the places a camera should never be. TetherX keeps cameras out of nappy-change rooms and toilets entirely - and covers those spaces with door access logs and discreet sensors instead, paired with the corridor camera that did see who went in and out.
Parent reassurance never means exposing footage. There is no public stream, no parent app showing live rooms. Footage stays inside a named-access platform - so reassurance comes from a clear, lawful record, not from a camera anyone can open.
No cameras in private spaces
Nappy-change rooms, toilets and quiet sleep areas have no camera, by design. The room access log and an occupancy sensor record who entered and when - the safeguarding evidence you can lawfully keep, without filming a child being changed.
Room occupancy & ratios
Sensors and access events give a live count per room, so a manager can review staff:child ratio at any point in the day. Helpful for the inspection; reassuring on the day a room lead is off sick and cover shuffles round.
No public streaming to parents
TetherX never streams nursery rooms to a parent app. Reassurance comes from a lawful, named-access record a manager can share deliberately - not from a live feed anyone could screenshot or leave open on a phone.
Propped-open & tailgating
A garden gate propped open, a fire door held, someone tailgating in behind a carer - all surface as named events on the same timeline as the entrance footage, so the manager sees it before pickup, not at the next audit.
Out-of-hours alerts
Glass-break, motion in a closed setting and tampered cameras alert the keyholder direct - so the manager doesn't learn about an overnight break-in from a cold room and a forced door at 7am.
Visitor & contractor sign-in
Sign-in integrations log who is on site - the agency cover, the soft-play engineer, the EYFS adviser - against the camera that saw them arrive at the entrance. Safer-recruitment evidence tied to a face, not just a name in a book.
Authorised carers in. The right collector out.
Drop-off and collection are the riskiest moments of the nursery day. TetherX brings secure door entry on every entrance and the authorised-collector list into the same timeline as the entrance camera - so reception sees the whole picture, not a clipboard and a half-remembered face.
Secure door entry & visitor checks
Fobs, codes or phones unlock the front door, the baby room and the garden gate - only authorised carers get in, a leaver is revoked in seconds and an entry audit exports straight to a safeguarding file. Each entrance camera pairs with a sign-in that logs every contractor and visitor, so footage and access event sit on one timeline, not a paper book beside a separate recorder.
Authorised-collector list at pickup
The collection whitelist - parents, named grandparents, the registered childminder - is cross-referenced against the reception camera at the moment of handover. An off-list collector is held at the door, and the manager sees the clip, not just a note that someone "looked unsure".
Handover evidence on one timeline
Each collection is logged against the entrance footage and the room sign-out, so a later parent query - "who collected my child on Tuesday?" - is answered from the record in seconds, not reconstructed from staff memory at the end of a long day.
From a single day nursery to a multi-setting group
TetherX is open by design: the cameras and door entry your last installer fitted keep working, and a group head office keeps one platform across every setting - not a spreadsheet of recorder and door logins per nursery.
Head Office, The Manager, And The Room Lead
A nursery group does not run like a corporate chain - each manager runs their setting, and the group safeguarding lead audits across all of them. TetherX scopes per-setting, per-role, per-room. The room lead sees the rooms they're named on. The manager sees their nursery. Head office sees the group. The safeguarding lead sees what they audit.
- Per-setting scope - managers see their nursery, not the whole group
- Group-wide safeguarding role - audit every setting from head office
- Room-lead scope - only the rooms they're named on, no other settings
Keep The Cameras And Door Entry You Already Have
TetherX is open by design. The TetherBox bridge connects to 1,000+ integrations and any ONVIF device, so the cameras and door entry across the group keep working - no rip-and-replace, no capital write-off, no setting closed for a refit. Add cloud, a named-access audit trail and secure collection to the kit you already paid for.
- Works with the cameras and door entry already fitted - 1,000+ integrations and ONVIF
- TetherBox bridge installs in 5 min per setting - no need to close the nursery
- Per-camera and per-door health monitoring across every setting in the group
The questions after the safeguarding tour
Once the manager is happy, the group head and the EYFS lead want the rest: how do we find a collection on a busy day, what about updates, where does the data sit, who covers an out-of-hours alert, and can we tighten retention when policy changes.
Find a collection without scrubbing footage
Smart video search lets a manager or safeguarding lead filter every entrance and every setting by object, colour, zone and time - a person in green at the front door around 4pm - instead of scrubbing a day of recordings. The audit log captures the query and the named user.
No per-camera patch windows
Platform updates and security patches roll out from the cloud. No firmware-night booked round the nursery calendar, no spreadsheet of recorder versions per setting. A group IT lead gets one platform always up to date, without a maintenance window per nursery.
A record that protects staff, not just children
When an allegation is made, a good practitioner is as exposed as the child. The named-access audit trail and the entrance timeline show what actually happened and who was present - so a calm, lawful record clears a cleared-by-DBS room lead instead of leaving it to one person's word against another.
Cloud, on-prem or hybrid - your choice
Store on the TetherBox at the nursery, in UK-region cloud, or both for redundancy. The bridge keeps recording locally if the setting broadband drops, then syncs once it's back. AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit; cloud infrastructure is ISO 27001 / SOC 2 attested at the infra level via Wasabi.
Change retention & resolution when policy changes
A new safeguarding policy, a DPA review, an insurer asking for longer retention on the entrance camera - update retention windows, resolution and which sensors run per setting from the dashboard. No engineer visit, no per-recorder reconfigure.
Same view on phone, laptop, office screen
A manager on a phone at the door, a group head on the laptop at home, a deputy on the office monitor - same login, same scope, same audit log. Head office sees every setting on one screen without needing a VPN per nursery.
Quietly chosen by early years providers like LEYF and Little Badgers to keep settings secure without putting children on a screen.
Perimeter, playroom, garden, collection
Indoor common areas - no cameras at child level.
Garden, perimeter, collection gates.
Early years platform brief
Get the early years platform brief by email.
What TetherX is, how it handles EYFS welfare requirements and DPA-2018 / SAR workflows, what it replaces in a nursery group, and what a per-setting rollout looks like. PDF, in your inbox before you go.
No sales call; your email stays with us. We route serious enquiries through accredited local TetherX installers.
How TetherX stands out for nurseries
Safeguarding-grade video, door entry and alerts on one platform - across one setting or a group.
One platform, one bill
Video, access control and intruder alerts on one dashboard, one app, one bill - not three systems from three vendors.
Records through any outage
The TetherBox records full-rate on-site. A nursery-broadband drop never loses footage - it syncs when the link returns.
Your retention, full 4K
Set retention per camera at full 4K - long on entry and safeguarding-sensitive areas, short elsewhere. No pricing-band retention cap.
Keep your own ARC
Connect your existing monitoring station for out-of-hours response - Immix, Sentinel, CONXTD, MASterMind, Bold Patriot Manitou, Stages and others. Any ARC software can connect via a generic link - no special integration required. No forced SOC switch.
Built in the UK and Australia
Built in the UK and Australia. Local representatives in Canada and India. EU, North America and APAC supported. Your data stays in your region (UK, AU, CA, IN, EU, NA, APAC).
Ringfence legacy cameras
Existing cameras (including Hikvision and Dahua) stay reachable behind the TetherBox, off the public Internet - phase NDAA-compliant replacement on your budget cycle. NDAA-ready options include Hanwha Vision, Axis, Avigilon, Pelco, Bosch.
What nurseries and groups ask before they switch
Reception unsure who is at the door at collection, with only a clipboard to go on?
Off-list collector held at the door, handover logged, signed clip ready if a parent asks.
A TetherX-accredited local installer scopes your nursery or group and quotes a project price.
Ready to scope your nursery or group?
Tell us roughly how many settings, entrances and rooms you have. We route your enquiry direct to a TetherX-accredited installer who knows early years settings - no central sales call.
We reply by email, usually within one business day.
