ARC - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

ARC is cloud-based care management software built exclusively for Ofsted-regulated children's residential homes in England operating under the Children's Homes Regulations 2015. Daily journals, incident tracking, safeguarding, and Regulation 40, 44, and 45 workflows are held in one connected record per young person, covering the full timeline of events and entries alongside care plans, goals, keywork, contact logs, and wishes and feelings. Shift handover is compiled automatically from activity logged during the shift rather than re-typed at the end of it. Incidents remain open until formally resolved and signed off. Regulation 40 notifications are raised at incident review, tracked per recipient with a 24-hour overdue clock, and exported as a compiled PDF for Ofsted submission. Regulation 44 independent visit records are tracked against monthly due dates, and Regulation 45 quality of care reports are compiled from data already entered in the record, with manager sign-off and a full audit trail. All data is hosted in the UK on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS. Role-restricted access, an append-only audit trail on every record, and a signed data processing agreement are included as standard. AI-generated advisory drafts are included in all plans at no extra charge; young person data is de-identified before inference, and processing is UK-only and audited.

Pricing is published per home, banded by number of registered beds (1-3, 4-6, 7+), with unlimited staff accounts at every tier. There is no setup fee, no migration fee, and no minimum contract. Onboarding, training, and record migration are included in the monthly price. Combined billing is available for groups of homes at published per-home rates, making ARC suited to both independent single-home providers and multi-home operators.