Decision details

Permission to bid and accept bid (if successful) to the Department for Education DDSF Fund. Reimagining Data for Children’s Services Project.

Permission to apply for grant funding and to accept if successful

There report contains no exempt information

That the Authority submit a bid for funding from the Department for Education to use existing advanced technology to develop a proof of concept and pilot a reimagining of recording, retrieval, sharing and information analysis information from CMS.

The application of the product will be cost effective for use by other LAs (using any technology provider) and will demonstrate an enhancement in the quality of children’s records, the progression of interventions and plans. The social workers workstream will be more efficient.

None.