Children: Social Services

(asked on 9th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support the Government is providing to local authorities to help improve the way that those bodies (a) collect and (b) store data on children's services.


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 22nd March 2022

Local authority children’s services are a devolved matter, and this information therefore only applies to England.

Local authorities record and store children’s services data in digital case management systems they procure from the market. Our Children’s Social Care Digital Programme has worked with local authorities and case management system suppliers to publish guidance that aims to support local authority planning, procurement, and implementation of case management systems. The guidance can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-social-care-improving-case-management-systems.

We are also working across government on how data and technology can be used to enable better multi-agency information sharing in safeguarding, including an investigation study on the feasibility of adopting a consistent child identifier.

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