Follow your child’s school, and know who can reach them
Read the school’s news and events, get told when something needs your attention, and decide which schools and businesses your child may write to.
You’re told when your child
- blocks someone, or reports a person or a message
- applies for a job, and when it ends in an offer or a no
- writes to a school or a business, or gets a reply
- deletes their account
At most one alert a week for each kind, except replies from a school: you always see those in full.
You decide
- which schools your child may write to, and which businesses
- whether an employer gets your child’s phone and email, one application at a time
- everything on the account of a child under 13, which you open and hold for them
You don’t see your child’s messages with other people, only a short summary: how many connections they have, and how many reports about their messages were reviewed.
What your child never meets here
- An adult who can message them or add them as a connection
- An advert or a promoted post
- A search result with their name in it
How to link to your child
Parent accounts are made in the EduPress app. If your child doesn’t have an account yet, you create one for them when you sign up.
- Ask to linkSay whether you’re their mother, father, guardian or another relative. You can have up to 10 requests waiting.
- The school approvesYour request goes to your child’s school first.
- Your child says yesThey can also take it back later.
- The school checksOnce it does, you see your child’s summary in Family safety.
Worried about a child right now?
Call Sauti 116, Uganda’s free child helpline. It’s open 24 hours and you can talk in English or your own language. If a child is being abused, report it to the police.
Is your school not on EduPress yet?
Send this page to the head teacher, or to the school’s WhatsApp group.