Built specifically for Scottish childminders — SHANARRI, GIRFEC & Care Inspectorate ready
Est. Scotland · Registered SC872090

Where Safeguarding Expertise
Meets Technological Innovation.

ChildMinderPro was built in direct partnership with working Scottish childminders — shaped by the people who use it every day, and grounded in decades of frontline child protection experience.

25+ Years Frontline Service
30+ Years Safeguarding Experience
SC Scotland Registered · SC872090
ICO UK GDPR Registered · ZC059077
Our Mandate

Built from the inside out.

Childminders carry an extraordinary professional responsibility — the care and safety of children entrusted to them by families across Scotland. Yet for too long, the tools available to them have failed to reflect the seriousness of that responsibility.

ChildMinderPro was established to address that gap. Drawing on decades of senior-level operational experience in child protection, public protection, and multi-agency safeguarding, our founders recognised that effective childminding software must be built by professionals who understand what genuine child safety looks like in practice — not by software developers working from a brief.

ChildMinderPro was built in active collaboration with working Scottish childminders from the very beginning. Every feature, every workflow, and every compliance tool was tested, questioned, and refined by real childminders operating across Scotland — people who understood the Care Inspectorate, the paperwork burden, and what actually needed to change.

The result is a platform that is not merely functional, but is grounded in the same frameworks, legislative obligations, and professional standards that govern child protection across Scotland — and shaped by the voices of the childminders it serves.

Meet the Leadership

Two careers. Decades of frontline child protection. One platform built from the inside out.

Paul McDougall
Paul McDougall
Founder & CEO
  • 25+ Years in Child Protection & Safeguarding
  • Founder & CEO · We Build Logic Ltd
  • Child Protection Specialist
  • MAPPA Strategic Lead
  • Senior Investigating Officer
  • National Policy · Public Protection

Paul McDougall is the founder and Chief Executive of We Build Logic Ltd — the Scottish technology company behind ChildMinderPro, established to deliver professional-grade compliance software for the childcare sector. He brings more than 25 years of experience in specialist child protection, public protection, and safeguarding, across both operational and strategic levels.

Paul's background includes executive responsibility for the assessment and management of vulnerability across complex multi-agency environments — ensuring that concerns relating to children and vulnerable adults were identified, risk-assessed, and responded to with precision and accountability.

His professional background encompasses the leadership of serious and complex child protection investigations as a Senior Investigating Officer; strategic oversight of registered sex offender management as MAPPA lead; representation on Lanarkshire's Strategic Child Protection Committee; and active co-chairmanship of Contextual Safeguarding Panels. He has also contributed to national policy development in the fields of Public Protection and Human Trafficking.

Paul brings that depth of institutional knowledge directly to the architecture of ChildMinderPro — a platform designed not merely to satisfy regulatory requirements, but to reflect the professional standards that serious safeguarding demands. Crucially, every stage of development was carried out in close consultation with working Scottish childminders, ensuring that what was built was genuinely useful — not just technically compliant.

Gail McDougall
Gail McDougall
Childminder Relations Manager
  • Former Detective Constable, Police Scotland
  • 30+ Years in Public Protection & Safeguarding
  • Advanced Investigator · Child & Public Protection Specialist
  • Risk & Concern Hub

Gail McDougall is a retired Detective Constable and Advanced Investigator, having served more than 30 years with Scottish policing. Her career centred on specialist child protection and public protection roles, with a sustained focus on the investigation of complex cases involving vulnerable individuals and the management of associated risk.

Her service included a period within a Risk and Concern Hub, where she was engaged in the structured assessment of vulnerability and multi-agency coordination to ensure appropriate protective measures were applied consistently and proportionately. Throughout her career, Gail operated within demanding legislative and regulatory frameworks in which professional judgement, accurate information management, and strict accountability were paramount.

At ChildMinderPro, Gail leads client relations and works directly with Scottish childminders day to day — listening to how they use the platform, understanding their pressures, and feeding that insight back into how ChildMinderPro continues to develop. Her relationships with childminders across Scotland have been central to ensuring the platform reflects real-world needs, not just regulatory checklists.

The Company Behind ChildMinderPro

Registered in Scotland. GDPR compliant. UK infrastructure. Care Inspectorate ready.

ChildMinderPro is built by a Scottish-registered technology company directed by professionals with frontline child protection experience — developed in close partnership with working Scottish childminders, not from a software brief.

ICO ZC059077
Data UK GDPR Compliant
Servers UK-Based Infrastructure
Regulatory Care Inspectorate Ready

Scottish Frameworks

Every module is designed around the frameworks that matter most to Scottish childminders and the Care Inspectorate.

SHANARRI

ChildMinderPro is structured around Scotland's eight wellbeing indicators, enabling childminders to record, evidence, and demonstrate progress across all dimensions of child wellbeing in a format aligned with Care Inspectorate expectations.

GIRFEC

The platform's workflow architecture reflects the Getting it Right for Every Child national approach, supporting early intervention, proportionate risk assessment, and collaborative working with partner agencies where required.

Care Inspectorate

Every module within ChildMinderPro is designed to facilitate inspection readiness — from self-evaluation against the 2025 Quality Framework to one-click inspection pack generation, ensuring providers can demonstrate compliance with confidence.

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