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Trailblazer Project


A number of trailblazer local authorities have been piloting a range of local 'index' approaches. 

These pilots have the common element of holding basic information on every child in at least part of their local area. 

The trailblazers' experience has demonstrated that this type of tool produces some key benefits:

  • Improved service experience for children, young people and families.
  • Faster and more effective intervention before problems become serious, because practitioners have a fuller picture of children and young people's needs.
  • Reduction in the unproductive time spent by practitioners trying to find out which other services are involved with a child and trying to contact the right person.
  • Quicker assessment of whether a child is receiving universal services (education, primary health care).

It was also found that training is best set within the wider context of integrated working.

In December 2005, Beverley Hughes, Minister for Children, Young People and Families, announced the government's plans to implement a national system that will enable practitioners delivering services to children to identify and contact one another easily and quickly, so they can share relevant information about children who need services, or about whose welfare they are concerned.

Documents

Learning from Information and Assessment Trailblazers
Explains how the trailblazer local authorities have influenced the development of ContactPoint.

Trailblazer case studies

Examples from the trailblazer local authorities, demonstrating the benefits of locally developed index systems:


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East Sussex




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Gateshead




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Knowsley




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Lewisham


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