The app, designed by Mind Of My Own, in partnership with the Access Group software company, will give children in care the ability to insert their own notes into care records through digital voice recordings in a bid to make the records "more authentic to the young people they represent".
Developers say the new initiative is designed to put young people’s own voices at the front and centre of their social are records, after children who had viewed their case records reported they were unable to recognise the person being portrayed in the text.
Jill Thorburn, co-founder of Mind Of My Own, said: “I was told about a young person who, having viewed their case records, they felt like they were ‘a ghost in their own files’.
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