Every Child Matters: Information Sharing and Assessment

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Every Child Matters Information Sharing and
Assessment
Presented by Jasmine AliChildrens Workforce
Unit 13 October 2004
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Fragmented funding, multiple assessments and
gatekeepers
3billion
LEA special educational needs
EWS
CAMHS
YOT
PCT
Childrens Fund
Youth Service
Childpsycho-logist
Edwelfareofficer
Youthworkers
Healthvisitor
Statement of SEN
Children in need
At risk register
Conductdisorder
Risks to parents
ASSET

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Current barriers

• Services delivered in silos
• Multiple assessments
• Legal framework for sharing information
  misunderstood
• Information shared too late or not at all
• Weaknesses in delivering services to children
  with additional needs

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Childrens trusts involve
Inter-Agency Governance strategic direction,
partnership and accountability
Integrated Strategy planning, commissioning,
pooled resources
Integrated Processes information sharing, common
assessment
Integrated Working common core,
multi- disciplinary teams co-location
Children Young People
Families Community
Leadership at every level
Involvement of children young people
Shared Vision
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What were doing

• Improving common processes and working, through
• Better information sharing
• A common front-end assessment framework
• A lead professional for each case to coordinate
  action if more than one service is needed
• Multi-disciplinary teams and multi-agency
  working
• Common core of training, and new qualification
  pathways

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Common Assessment Framework

• Basic initial assessment, can lead to specialist
  assessment
• Builds up over time, shared with consent
• Consultation document deadline November

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Information sharing databases

• Tool to enable information sharing
• Records for all children
• Basic identifying details
• Contact details for practitioners
• Facility to signal concern

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Databases and legislation

• Children Bill about to enter Committee stage of
  Commons
• Royal Assent expected in November
• Public consultation this autumn on sensitive
  services and indicating a concern
• Details of how databases will operate to be set
  out in regulations, guidance and directions

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As Is For all practitioners working within
the LA
Practitioner to Practitioner
Practitioner to Computer
Computer to Computer
Nationally
Other sources of data
Education staff Childcare service staff Early
years staff Sure Start staff
Education Systems
PCT staff Health staff
PCT / NHS Systems
Other LAs Education Systems
Police staffPrison staff Probation staff
Secure training centres Youth Offending Teams
Youth Offending Institutions
Other LAs PCT/Health Systems
Youth Justice Systems
Social care staffConnexions staff Housing
service staff
Social Care Systems
LA Geographic Area
Other LAs Youth Justice Systems
Other LAs Social Care Systems
Voluntary community
service staff
VCSOs
National VCSO Systems
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Proposed To Be For all practitioners
working within the LA
Practitioner to Practitioner
Practitioner to Computer
Computer to Computer
(Dotted proposed new action)
Nationally
Other sources of the minimum dataset
Education staff Childcare service staff Early
years staff Sure Start staff
Education Systems
PCT staff Health staff
LA1
PCT / NHS Systems
151st System
LA ISA Index
LA2
LA3
Police staffPrison staff Probation staff
Secure training centres Youth Offending Teams
Youth Offending Institutions
LA4
LA5
LA6
Youth Justice Systems
LAn
Social care staffConnexions staff Housing
service staff
Social Care Systems
LA Geographic Area
All Other LA ISA Index databases
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Voluntary community
service staff
VCSOs
National VCSO Systems
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Databases next steps

• Royal Assent on Children Bill
• Ministerial decisions informed by technical
  advice
• Funding decisions

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Local Authority action underway

• Audit and improve practice
• Information sharing protocols
• Privacy statement
• Guidance on consent
• Service directory
• Audit IT systems
• Children missing education
• Evaluation of progress published August

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Trailblazers

• 15 LAs in 10 groupings
• Developing new IT systems
• Mentoring other LAs
• Evaluation published this autumn

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Your views?

• What are your views on the work of ISA?
• Who do you think should access database?
• How can RIG best feed in to the consultation
  process?