Kirby Children's Centre Group, Knowsley, Merseyside, Children's
centre inspection, February 2014
Kirby Children's Centre Group is "relentless" when it comes to information sharing.
So says Ofsted, and the proof of the Knowsley group's determination to find out more about its users is its dogged efforts to gain access to live birth data from the NHS.
The process took years, says Gerry Allen, who as manager of the Merseyside borough's Huyton and Halewood children's centre groups works closely with the Kirby centres.
"Around August, September last year, we finally made the breakthrough in accessing live birth data," he says.
"We always understood the difference access could make to how we roll out services to families because, instead of door knocking campaigns to find out where very young children might reside, we could target our support.
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