CYP Now - System links council’s education and social care data

Visibility of children’s wider needs helps care and education staff make better decisions.

Synergy improves young people’s outcomes in ensuring that data is visible to practitioners, supporting their decision making. Picture: Servelec

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Interoperability between systems in different aspects of council children’s services has been something of a holy grail for years – often different systems don’t talk to each other, which can result in duplication of information or, worse, staff not having access to the fullest picture of a young person’s needs and circumstances.

Cheshire East Council has implemented a solution that overcomes this obstacle, increasing efficiency in the education and social work teams in the process.

For some time, the council had wanted to improve the interface of its education management system with its 155 local schools, as well as the multiple platforms it was already using to gather data.

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