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CareLoop vs YourHippo

CareLoop has all the training YourHippo offers — and runs the rest of your operation too.

Switch to one platform that covers the Care Certificate, statutory mandatory training, AND your compliance, scheduling, comms and CQC reporting.

Where YourHippo is strong

YourHippo is a well-known training provider with a library of CPD courses for adult social care. It does training well — but everything else (compliance dashboards, visits, comms, incidents, shifts) lives in different tools.

Three reasons groups switch from YourHippo

1

31 real-world UK courses, EN/PL/RO/TL/ES

Every Care Certificate standard, statutory training (Fire/Manual Handling/COSHH/RIDDOR/DoLS-MCA), clinical (eMAR/dementia/EOL/dysphagia) and awareness (Prevent/MS/MH/LD), all multi-language — for staff who learn better in their first language.

2

Compliance + training in one dashboard

YourHippo tells you who completed a course. CareLoop tells you who completed it, whose DBS expires next month, whose moving-and-handling refresh is due, and which residents that affects. One traffic-light view.

3

Replace 4 tools with one bill

Stop paying for an LMS, a rota, a visits scheduler and a comms tool separately. £150–£200/home/month covers everything, with one audit log inspectors can read.

Side by side

FeatureCareLoopYourHippo
Training

Care Certificate (15 standards)

Statutory mandatory training

Multi-language courses (PL/RO/TL/ES)

Five built-in locales for non-EN speakers

Face-to-face attendance registers

Limited

PDF certificates auto-generated

Group training sessions calendar

Compliance

Certifications dashboard with traffic lights

60/30/14-day expiry reminders

CQC KLOE / SAF mapping

Mock inspection self-assessment

Skills matrix heatmap

Operations

Resident records (eMAR, body map, falls, care plan)

Visit scheduling with magic-link confirms

Open shifts & rota

Incidents & RIDDOR-ready exports

Comms

SMS / WhatsApp / email from one inbox

Family portal with read-only view

Reception kiosk for visitor sign-in

AI

In-app AI assistant (Mae)

Proactive morning briefings

Pricing

Per-home, all features included

Per-seat
Replacing a standalone training platform on day one is the goal — broader catalogue, language support so Filipino and Polish carers actually retain it, and one place where course completions reconcile against compliance.

From the CareLoop pilot brief · What multi-home groups tell us they need

Common questions

Will our existing course completions and certificates carry over?

Yes. We import a CSV of every staff-by-course completion (with dates and pass marks) on day one. Existing PDF certificates are linked to the new record. No staff has to redo any training.

Can we keep using YourHippo for the LMS and just use CareLoop for compliance?

You can — we ingest YourHippo completion exports nightly. But the buyers we talk to say the cleanest experience is one platform: training completion automatically updates the cert traffic-light, and learners see their full development path in one app.

What about bespoke courses we've already authored?

Clone our course catalogue into your org and edit anything you need. Or upload your own course content as plain text or PDFs — we'll convert to the form-based format used by the LMS.

Ready to see it side-by-side?

Book a 30-minute walkthrough — we’ll show CareLoop with your data and answer how it stacks up against YourHippo for your specific group.