Children services

Our discovery highlighted that keeping Looked After Children (LAC) data accurate is time-consuming and difficult. Consequently, leadership often don’t have the reliable insights they need for key decisions. (See p.22 […]

Problem Statement At Newcastle City Council we have adopted an agile approach to developing digital services for our customers. We don’t, however, have a consistent process to receive, analyse and […]

The 12 North East Councils wish to progress their digital ambitions by doing the necessary preparatory work to ensure our digital system architecture is ready to plumb into the regional […]

Problem: All Councils struggle to understand and monitor how children move between statutory and non-statutory social services. This can make it much harder to make informed decisions on service delivery […]

Moving house is stressful and this is not helped by the complexity of the public sector front-end, as a new resident has to navigate individually a disjointed mass of bureaucratic processes in […]

The number of Children in Care (CiC), both in Suffolk and nationally, has been rising, whilst expenditure has been rising at an even faster rate. Conversations with practitioners, backed up […]

Problem Statement The Digital Economy Act 2017 enables greater powers to share Registration Services data for birth, deaths and marriages with other local public sector partners – the common ‘problem’ […]

Our project wishes to bring joined-up, best-practice digital thinking to the challenging problem of local service directories. Every local authority, health organisation, police force, together with other voluntary sector partners […]

Problem Statement Our problem is how we better automate communication & contribute to the reduction in missed appointments & request feedback. Our discovery looked at the problems & challenges for […]

Having ‘blueprinted’ the SEN Assessment process it is apparent that applying digital processes, analytics and AI that the production of Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP) can be greatly enhanced. […]

The problem: Every day, our Children’s Services Departments (CSDs) make key decisions deciding the future of vulnerable children without timely and relevant comparable data. Without this, they cannot accurately assess […]

The fundamental issue to address as part of the project is to produce a one-stop-shop of all services across the city. Currently there are multiple databases and multiple service providers, […]

Problem and objectives With 12 other councils, we identified that we all face a common problem with getting information about a child’s family (from basic details to understanding relationships and […]

Within Gloucestershire we have many silo’ed services that all have the joint aim of increasing independence, mobility and safety within the home and community.  We want to join these up to […]