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reports.

The Local Authority report drafts a calm narrative from what you have already logged. You read every word, edit anything, then download a real PDF when you are ready.

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Draft · Council Report 2025/26•••
Section 3 · Curriculum

Built around the ask

Shaped around the question a UK Local Authority actually asks.

Section 7 of the Education Act 1996 (England and Wales) says a parent must cause their child to receive an efficient, full-time education suitable to their age, ability, and aptitude, either by regular attendance at school or otherwise. Under Section 437, your council can ask whether that is happening, and a thoughtfully kept record is the friendliest possible answer.

The report is shaped around that ask. Your LA's name on the cover, a narrative for each curriculum area, an optional subject-hours table, and a draft, review, finalise workflow so nothing leaves your hands until you are ready.

Drafted from your logs

Drafted from what you have already logged.

Pick a child and a date range. The app reads your activity logs inside that range and drafts a paragraph for each curriculum area that has activity behind it. You see exactly what the LA will receive before you finalise.

Every section is editable. Rewrite a paragraph, add detail the app could not see, soften a tone, or expand on a milestone. The narrative is yours, the draft is just to save you the blank page.

Real PDF, real terms

Download as a real PDF, or send a tidy table.

When you finalise, the report downloads as a properly formatted PDF, with no Print to PDF workaround and no awkward font fallback. Pair it with a CSV export if your LA wants the underlying table as well.

Term dates and holidays you record on the schedule feed into the report, so a council report can cover your actual term rather than the calendar year. Useful when an LA officer (your local-authority home-education officer) asks for autumn term specifically.

In the app

How it sits inside Willowfolio.

Five surfaces, one report. Each one is a step in the draft, review, finalise loop, and you decide when to leave it.

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  • Reports · New Report button

    Create a report

    Pick Council, choose a child and a date range, let the app draft the narrative from your logs.

  • Reports · type Council

    Local Authority report

    Your LA's name on the cover, a narrative per curriculum area, optional subject-hours table, draft, review, finalise.

  • Inside any draft report

    Edit narrative before finalising

    Every section is editable. Rewrite a paragraph, add detail the app could not see, soften the tone before you finalise it.

  • Reports · [report id] · Download PDF

    Download as PDF

    Every finalised report downloads as a real PDF, formatted for sharing, printing, or sending to your LA.

  • Schedule · Terms and Holidays

    Terms and holidays

    Record your family's term dates so a council report can cover your actual term, not the calendar year.

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Common questions

The things families ask first.

Do I have to share the report with my Local Authority?
Not unless they ask. The report is for the moment a council officer makes contact under Section 437 of the Education Act. Many UK home-ed families never send one, and keeping records throughout the year means the report is ready if the moment comes.
Will the report look the same in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland?
The report is shaped around an England-and-Wales Local Authority because that is the legal framework we have built against. Scottish and Northern Irish families are welcome, and the activity log, reading log, and schedule work the same, but the report flow names the LA and references curriculum areas in a way that matches the Education Act 1996. We say this plainly rather than pretend the four nations are the same.
Will the draft read as boilerplate?
It reads as a calm letter. The draft uses your logs and notes verbatim where it can, and the rest is plain prose in the voice the app uses elsewhere, no marketing tone, no exclamation marks. You read every word and edit before you finalise. If a paragraph does not sound like you, rewrite it.

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A council-ready report, drafted for you.

The demo is a fully populated workspace you can poke around in. Real shapes, real flows, fictional family.

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