The Virtual School Toolkit, launched by the Cambridge Institute of Technology (Intec) last week, provides digital education resources and a tracking system to help councils chart the education of children in care. The toolkit also includes a facility that allows virtual school heads to listen and respond to children's views and share information with other professionals from partner services.
George Pearson, chief executive of Intec, said the toolkit is designed to give virtual schools access to the same degree of support that mainstream schools receive. He said confidentiality was a "maximum priority" and said the toolkit had passed rigorous security testing.
"You need a special set of tools to be a virtual head teacher. Looked-after children often don't have a voice so this technology is vital to them," he said.
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