April 30, 2010

Care professionals at Bury Council can seamlessly query and update the ContactPoint database using CareWorks’ social care software

We are pleased to announce that CareWorks has achieved ContactPoint Instance Accreditation for its social care case management system in partnership with Bury Council.

This accreditation means that care professionals can access ContactPoint seamlessly through their social care case management system. They can search for details of children they are working with and find out instantly who else is working with the same child or young person. Changes to critical basic children data on the CareWorks system are updated automatically on ContactPoint, removing the need to enter data twice.

Bury Council is an early adopter of ContactPoint and has sponsored the program to make our social care software link up effectively. The Council is now beginning a pilot rollout to a small number of children’s social care practitioners. A wider 18-month/two-year rollout programme will then see ContactPoint delivered to workers in schools, youth support services, health organisations and voluntary services.

ContactPoint is a secure computer-based resource set up by the Department for Children, School and Families (DCSF). It provides a quick way for those working with children and young people to find out who else is working with the same child or young person. This makes it easier to deliver more co-ordinated support and, through reducing the amount of time required for practitioners to establish who else is working with a child, provides workers with more time to deliver valuable services and improve children’s outcomes.