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Cornerstone VR

Transform your perspective with the power of Virtual Reality Technology.

Empower your team to be more trauma responsive and empathetic with Cornerstone VR. Discover how our unique virtual reality (VR) approach is crafted to help users understand the impact of trauma on children's lives through adolescence and into adulthood.

Virtual Reality Experience

Virtual Reality Experience

Our innovative VR training programme enables learners to experience trauma through the eyes of children and young people from diverse and adverse backgrounds.

Guided by Expertise

Guided by Expertise

We are a subject matter led organisation, bringing together a wealth of experience to support children, adults, families, communities and professionals.

Behaviour Change

Behaviour Change

VR is a powerful training tool that accelerates the transformation of behaviours and addresses a broad spectrum of social issues affecting children in diverse care settings.

Emotional Understanding

Emotional Understanding

Our VR programme is designed to enhance empathy and understanding of early-life trauma and its continued influence throughout childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood.

A side view photo of the Pico VR Headset that Cornerstone VR uses.

Cutting-edge application of immersive VR Technology.

Our virtual reality programme was created from a firsthand experience in social care. It's a clinically led, technology-driven tool designed to deepen adults' understanding.

Using immersive films and VR headsets, this pioneering approach in children's social care offers a fresh perspective on the effects of attachment and trauma directly from a child's viewpoint.

Our programme is used as both a training and an intervention tool across the United Kingdom by local authorities including family support, early intervention services, youth justice services and virtual schools; regional and independent fostering and adoption agencies, children's homes. It's also embedded by NHS trusts, police services, and internationally within Fostering Services.

By using VR, we create fully immersive environments that replicate real-world scenarios and offer learners opportunities to interact in ways that traditional training methods cannot match.

Our scenarios closely follow the lives of children and young people from pre-birth to adolescence as they experience trauma, abuse and neglect…scenarios that are difficult to understand and replicate in real life.

Thanks to VR we’re able to expand the scope of our learners, and the immersive nature of VR captivates learners' attention and increases motivation to participate actively. Because we place users at the heart of experiences of children and young people, they’re more engaged, empathetic, and retain their knowledge and understanding towards vulnerable individuals.

This heightened engagement contributes to better learning outcomes, empowering professionals to deliver enhanced care and support.

A front view photo of the Pico VR Headset that Cornerstone VR uses.

What Cornerstone VR users say.

“The VR sessions that the children have taken part in have provided Outstanding practise for our recent OFSTED inspection. They were very impressed with the videos completed and how this has supported our children's understanding on different topics to support them, their knowledge and wellbeing.”
Inspirations Children's Residential Homes
“Yesterday was an incredible learning curve for me. I have been working with young people for 15 years and yesterday made it all real for me why we do, what we do, and the importance of working together to support young people and families. The videos are very powerful, incredibly knowledgeable, and real to life events and situations.”
NHS TrustPediatric Adolescent/Transition Specialist Nurse
"The ability to enable foster parents to virtually ‘stand in the shoes’ of a traumatised child is invaluable in promoting empathy and understanding of the meaning behind the behaviour of their foster child. During our recent Ofsted inspection, the VR was also used by the three visiting inspectors, who were all very impressed by its capabilities."
Flourish FosteringManaging Director
"The opportunity for staff to experience the ‘lived experience’ has changed staffs experience of safeguarding training in a positive way, the feedback has been amazing and our internal systems have shown that the amount of and quality of information provided on referrals has significantly improved. We are delighted with the results."
Dartford and Gravesham NHS TrustSenior Sister for Safeguarding
“It's been a catalyst. If I had to sum it up, VR has been a catalyst to make practitioners and carers think and see the bigger picture.”
Northamptonshire Children's TrustPractice Manager
“We use Cornerstone VR because it offers an immersive experience that equips staff with the knowledge and skillset to deliver best practice.”
West Sussex Virtual SchoolLearning and Development Manager
I have to say that the VR was a brilliant new way of learning and understanding the life of an abused child. It felt like you were in the child’s head and seeing things from their point of view. As a training method, I would give it 11 out of 10.”
One Adoption West Yorkshire
“The VR is a useful example of how our reaction affects whether a situation can either escalate issues or build positive relationships with children.”
Southend-on-Sea City Council
“Cornerstone VR have recognised that people are more receptive to an immersive VR experience than reading papers and utilised this to create a course which will be highly effective in training teachers and carers on how to support children who have fallen victim to such trauma.”
Trailblazers Mentoring
“It's not trying to reinforce what people already know, but it's about getting them to really see it and live it, through the child's experience, that is the difference. Until you have done the VR yourself and experienced it, you cannot compare to a normal trauma training.”
Greenwich Virtual SchoolAssistant Head
A woman wearing a pico VR headset during a Cornerstone VR programme training day.

Cornerstone VR Awards And Nominations.

National Technology Awards Cornerstone VR
Health Tech Digital Awards 2022 - Cornerstone VR
Health Tech Digital Awards 2021 - Cornerstone VR
Health Tech Awards 2023 Cornerstone VR Highly Commended
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Learning Excellence Awards 2025 Finalist Cornerstone VR
National Children and Young People Awards Finalists Cornerstone VR
UK Business Tech Awards - Tech For Good - Cornerstone VR
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Two bubbles have photos showing two users of the VR headsets, watching Cornerstone VR films.

Frequently Asked Questions.

We’re proud to have partnered with many statutory and independent providers. Our content has been experienced by social workers in children's and adult services, foster carers, police officers, paramedics, frontline clinical staff in emergency services, teachers from primary to university levels of education, nursery staff, youth justice workers, trainee social workers, trainee nurses, prospective adoptive and foster parents, parents/carers, family court judges, trainee barristers, senior managers, Elected Members, politicians, children's residential staff, and young people to talk about the impact of trauma, risks of exploitation and the digital world. Our innovative VR service is versatile, discover how our virtual reality tool can benefit your service.

Viewers can get a first hand insight into children's lives, by watching realistic films that closely follow and are in the footsteps of children from pre-birth to adolescence as they experience trauma. The experiential and immersive nature of the films, evokes emotions, which paired with space for reflection and discussion is invaluable. People often change their own behaviours, actions and decisions to be more trauma responsive, due to having more empathy and a deeper understanding of how others experience life.

We understand that integrating new technology can come with challenges, which is why we are committed to ensuring a smooth and successful experience.

Your dedicated VR Service Manager is available to assist with any questions you may have. On top of that, our VR portal offers a ton of valuable resources including headset guides, session plans, podcasts, webinars and more.

Our customer support team is just a call or email away. Whether you have a quick question or need in-depth assistance, we're here to provide timely and effective support.

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