How this is built

Each tool is a structured way of thinking something through, written down. It asks you questions one at a time and turns your answers into a sheet. It is an editorial format, not a clinical instrument, and nothing here has been trialed as an intervention.

That distinction matters more than it sounds. A guideline can support the principle behind a tool without saying anything at all about whether this particular worksheet helps. Where that is the case, the source list says so in the line under the reference.

Preference goes to primary sources: guidance from health authorities, standards bodies and international organizations, then peer-reviewed research, then everything else. Every reference on a tool page carries one line saying what it supports and, where it matters, what it does not.

A long bibliography is not evidence that a tool works. It is evidence that someone looked. The four things kept deliberately separate are an official recommendation, a study, an inference we made, and a design choice we made. Only the first two are anyone else's authority.

Emergency numbers, reporting routes, legal ages, school rules, water and air standards, data law and health services all change at a border. Carrying one country's answer into another is the fastest way to give someone dangerous advice with a confident face.

So the international core of a tool never names a service, a number or a legal threshold. Those belong in pages written for one country, which will say which territory they cover and when they were last checked. None exist yet.

Every tool and sheet carries one of three states in the project's own records. The states are how each one's reviews are tracked. They are not printed on the tools: a parent who opens one gets the tool, and this page is where the state of the reviews is set out.

Open means specialists have read it and a named person approved publishing it. Preview means it has not been through parent testing or the accessibility review and its wording is still a draft. In review means the specialists it needs have not read it yet.

Today nothing on this site is Open. That is not a soft launch, it is where the project actually is: nobody with the right training has read any of it yet, and no group of parents has tested it. The specialist readings, the tests with parents and teenagers, and an accessibility review with real assistive technology are all still to do. You can use every tool and sheet in the meantime, and each one says on its own page where it stops, what it does not do, and when to turn to a person.

Some subjects end a worksheet rather than being handled by one. Immediate danger, violence, someone being controlled, suspected abuse, exploitation, and risk of suicide are not handled by any worksheet. Each tool says where it stops, and the Calm and Repair Plan and the Parent AI Prompt Builder, the tools most likely to be opened in a hard moment, ask first and stop before anything is typed.

This is why a few tools open with a question before the first step, and why answering it a certain way closes the tool. It is doing exactly what it is supposed to do.

No field on this site asks what a child did. The four boxes that take more than a line ask about the adult or about a device at home, never about the child's behavior: what you take responsibility for, what you would let slide on a hard day, what your child said when you asked them, and what a connected device records. None of them wants the incident, and none of them is where an account of one belongs.

Each tool carries its own content version. A major change means the promise, the safety logic or the shape of the output changed. A minor one means something was added. A patch is wording, a source or an accessibility fix.

The version number is part of the project's records. No tool's or sheet's sources have been formally checked yet, and no page says they have. A date will appear under a tool's sources only once a real check has happened, with the date the next one is due.

A recommendation that becomes uncertain gets withdrawn or neutralized while it is looked at again, rather than left up until a scheduled review comes round. Law, emergencies, data and AI do not wait for an annual pass.

A tool that is removed leaves an explanation and a safe alternative in its place. A printed code from the book never lands on a dead page.