Helping young people reducing youth crime

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Helping young people - reducing youth crime
RYOGENS National Project
Denbigh Cowley Programme Director Socitm Spring
2004 29th April 2004 Savill Court Hotel, Egham,
Surrey
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Agenda
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Background why share concerns

• The fact that different practitioners each have a
  partial view of a child means it is hard for any
  to have a holistic view. A lack of such a view
  can lead to tragic consequences

RYOGENS attempts to overcome this challenge
through the simple use of technology to share
concerns about children.
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Which concerns go into RYOGENS

• There are three levels of causes for concern
  about children

RYOGENS is about capturing the concerns that
taken together will help to identify vulnerable
children.
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Background - why arent we better at sharing
concerns?

• Organisational silos (both in Whitehall and
  locally)?
• Legislative barriers?
• Cultural barriers?
• Systems not communicating with each other?

The assumption RYOGENS has made is that all these
issues need to be addressed together.
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Background - the vision
RYOGENS Management Function
Processing triggers alert
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Background meeting Government challenges
Positioning of RYOGENS National Project
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Background contributing to ODPM priorities
100 capability in electronic delivery of services
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Background - relationships with other agendas
Information Sharing and Assessment (formerly IRT)
Children at risk of being victims
YISP
Children offending
Children at risk of offending
Childrens Trusts
Integrated Childrens System
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Structure of presentation
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Our products

• Web-based system that is externally hosted,
  supported and maintained.
• Web-site/toolkit offering guidance to Local
  Authorities seeking to implement RYOGENS or
  similar solutions.

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Web-based system overview of the business
process
Contributing Agency
CONCERN
RYOGENS Management Function
RYOGENS Solution
ALERT
PRELIMINARY REVIEW
CLOSE/SUSPEND
FEEDBACK
FULL REVIEW
REFERRAL
ACTION
Intervention Agency(ies)
OUTCOME
FEEDBACK
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Technology Addressing systems integration
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Web-based system information sharing capability
For each action within RYOGENS access is based on
the Users role Action 1 Example Action 2
Example
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Web-based system information sharing capability
text.
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Web-based system overview of technology
providers and technology support
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Web-based system overview of security

• Security has to be carefully considered when
  sharing information over the
• internet. To this end a substantial investment
  has been made in this area
• including
• External hosting at secure facilities
• Access is restricted to authorised users who have
  to have been trained and have Criminal Records
  Bureau clearance
• Use of security software for user management and
  authentication, session management, and
  role-based access controls
• Only exposing the web server in the top tier of
  the architecture and this server is behind
  firewalls. The application servers are hidden
  behind a further firewall in the next tier. In
  the final tier behind another firewall, is the
  database. With this design, the data is most
  difficult to access.
• Thorough and regular penetration testing at the
  network and application levels to identify
  vulnerabilities and then resolve them.

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Web-site/toolkit an overview
This is for Local Authorities wanting to
implement RYOGENS or to learn lessons from the
project. The toolkit is structured into five
areas

• Overview of RYOGENS introduction and business
  case
• Project implementation guide the stages, work
  packages and deliverables that may be required to
  implement RYOGENS.
• User forum support users following an initial
  implementation of RYOGENS.
• Technology overview insight into the technical
  deliverables and processes followed during the
  pilot when designing and building the technical
  solution.
• Flash demonstration step by step walkthrough of
  the solution

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Structure of presentation
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Benefits

• Pragmatic generic, web based and configurable.
• Web-based quick to deploy, scalable, easy to
  implement.
• Identifies, assesses and refers vulnerable
  children captures concerns below statutory
  threshold which would not otherwise be recorded.
• Delivers on both the crime prevention and
  childrens agendas.
• UK wide a generic solution easily to implement
  in any local authority.
• Time efficient available now, practitioners can
  be trained quickly (1-2hrs) so benefits quickly
  visible.
• Cost effective no limit on user numbers, costs
  split between agencies involved.
• Enables multi-agency information sharing secure
  platform, configurable permissions model, clear
  lines of accountability.

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Costs and timescales
Note Implementing RYOGENS changes the way lots
of people work which means there are additional
set-up, change management, project management and
training costs. The nature and level of these
will depend on how Local Authorities choose to
implement RYOGENS.
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Structure of presentation
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Next steps

• Contacts Denbigh Cowley/Melissa Insley/Laura
  Rutland
• Email programmeoffice_at_ryogens.org.uk
• Visit website/toolkit www.ryogens.org.uk
• Other options
• Join the reference group to keep in touch you
  will receive a monthly newsletter
• Become an Early Adopting Authority see over.

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Next steps becoming an Early Adopter

• In addition to the benefits of using RYOGENS
  being an Early Adopter
• should give you
• Significant influence over the development of the
  product through a seat on the RYOGENS Board for
  the next phase of the project and a role in the
  user group.
• Possibility of small element of matched funding.

If your Local Authority is interested in becoming
an Early Adopter contact the Programme Office,
the Programme Director or the Programme Chair.