Ryogens, launched last week, allows agencies such as social services, youth offending teams and the police to flag up concerns on an electronic database.
The system was set up to help agencies work together to reduce crime and protect vulnerable children, but pilot councils say it can be used for child-protection work too. It was piloted in Warwickshire, Lewisham and Tower Hamlets following 2.9m of start-up funding from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
But although it is part of a drive to promote local e-government, authorities will have to pay 25,000 to Esprit, the company that built the technology.
Ryogens is similar to Information, Sharing and Assessment (formerly called Identification, Referral and Tracking), the system championed by the DfES for child protection.
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