Make every training hour count.
Lantern is the compliance ledger for UK counselling trainees and their supervisors. Hours logged as you go, every month checked against BACP or NCPS rules, and a digital sign-off that stands for both of you, so no hour is ever in doubt.
Trainees: free for your first 3 months, then £3.49 a month during the pilot. Supervisor accounts are not charged at present. No card to start, no client names ever, export everything whenever you like.
9.2 client hrs · 11 sessions
Supervision minimum met (2 of 1.5 hours).
Signed by Priya Sharma · locked · fingerprint 3f9c…a41d
The gap never shows up until the paperwork is due.
Every summer, trainees discover a hole in their record when the course asks for the paperwork, and supervisors field the panicked calls. Hours that were never signed off can't be evidenced retrospectively, and by then the months in question are long gone.
The gaps are easy to make. Supervision minimums run per calendar month, not every four to five weeks: supervision on 30 May and 1 July leaves June uncovered, and a month that misses its minimum can cost a trainee every client hour worked in it. A spreadsheet won't warn either of you.
And the questions don't stop at qualification. Professional bodies can audit practising members years later. Lantern keeps a tamper-evident record of the hours and the sign-off, ready to hand over in one click, for as long as either side needs it.
Two sides of the same record
Pick your side; everything below switches.
You log your hours, the rules engine keeps score, your supervisor signs each month, and the evidence is yours forever.
How it works
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Log as you go
Client sessions and supervision, two keystrokes each. Repeat clients prefill themselves.
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Every month gets a verdict
Your body's requirements, applied automatically, with warnings while there is still time to act.
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Your supervisor signs
They review the month and sign it digitally. It locks, permanently.
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Export the evidence
An audit-ready pack whenever a course provider or professional body asks.
Have a look inside
Straight from the app, with example data.
Compliance
A verdict for every month, in time to act
Supervision minimums run per calendar month, and Lantern checks yours the moment you log. When July is heading for trouble, you hear about it in July, while there is still time to book a session, not in an end-of-course audit.
Progress
Watch the hours add up, and see the finish
Signed hours and logged-but-unsigned hours are never blurred into one number, because only signed hours are safe in an audit. Your recent pace projects when you reach 100 and 450 hours, so the goal stays concrete.
Evidence
Evidence that proves itself
When your supervisor signs a month it locks permanently, sealed with a cryptographic fingerprint. Anyone holding your evidence pack can scan the QR and confirm the record is genuine and unchanged, years later, no account needed.
Speed
Logging that takes seconds, not Sunday evenings
Repeat clients prefill from their last session, group supervision maths is computed as you type, and your existing spreadsheet history imports in one checked, all-or-nothing pass.
Built for the way training actually goes
A rules engine, not a spreadsheet
Every calendar month is checked against your professional body's published requirements (BACP and NCPS today). Group supervision maths, calendar-month boundaries and forward-looking warnings are handled for you.
Evidence and accreditation packs
One click for the full evidence pack with sign-off attestations and QR verification; another for the accreditation summaries membership applications ask for. CSVs for your own spreadsheets.
Warnings while you can still act
A monthly summary lands on the 1st, lingering unsigned months get a nudge, and your milestone bars project when you reach 100 and 450 hours at your current pace.
Documents and renewals
Keep supervision contracts and insurance certificates in a private vault with expiry reminders, so renewals never lapse quietly.
Your history comes with you
Already keeping a spreadsheet? Import client and supervision history from CSV in one checked, all-or-nothing pass.
Client confidentiality by construction
Sessions are logged against short pseudonymous codes; the ledger has no free-text fields, so client-identifying details cannot be stored even by accident.
Questions, answered
Is client confidentiality protected?
By construction. Sessions are logged against short pseudonymous codes (like CL-01); the ledger has no free-text fields, so client-identifying details cannot be stored even by accident.
Which professional bodies are supported?
BACP and NCPS rule packs are built in, including BACP's published group supervision maths and both bodies' hour milestones. Choose yours in Settings; more bodies follow.
What does “signed off” actually mean here?
Your supervisor reviews the month's entries and the engine's verdict, then signs with their typed name. The month locks: nothing can be edited or deleted, only amended visibly. A cryptographic fingerprint of the signed content is stored, and anyone holding your evidence pack can confirm at Lantern's public verification page that the record is genuine and unchanged.
Can I get my data out?
Always. Evidence pack PDF, accreditation support pack, CSV exports, and a full account export in JSON. You can delete your account yourself, and your data goes with it.
I already have months of hours in a spreadsheet. Do I start over?
No. Download the CSV template, paste your history in, and import it: client sessions and supervision sessions both. Every row is checked first and nothing half-imports, so your record stays clean.
What if my hours were disrupted by illness or a placement break?
Record a circumstances note and your supervisor countersigns it. It becomes a permanent part of your evidence pack, so an auditor sees the explanation next to the numbers.
What does it cost?
Nothing for your first three months, so you see a full sign-off cycle work before paying a penny. After that it is £3.49 a month for trainees during the pilot, and we are not charging for supervisor accounts at present. Whatever happens, your record stays yours: you will always be able to view and export everything you have logged.
Start your ledger before the next month closes.
Set up takes two minutes. Trainees: create an account, pick your professional body, log your first session. Supervisors: create an account and invite your supervisees, and their months arrive ready to sign.
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