Data Sharing in Scotland

1. Data Sharing in Scotland Arlene A Stuart Transformational Technologies Division

2. Robots in Disguise? • Supporting Data Sharing Partnerships • National Governance • National standards for technology development and organisational change • Not just an IT project! • Policy Driven – Service User Centric – Practitioner Led – Technology Enabled

3. What Data Sharing is not • Replacement for what people are doing already • A replacement for professional judgement and good practice • A national database • Big brother

4. Current priorities • No longer a ‘pilot’ or ‘project’ • Building all Scotland coverage • Phase One: • Single Shared Assessment • Child Protection Messages • Phase Two: • Getting it Right for Every Child

5. The technical bit …

6. Practitioner access • Access to shared information through existing systems • Log on to system as usual • Able to view shared data • Where systems do not exist a new development will be available

7. Social Care GP Pharmacy Acute Education Housing Police The plan… …one of 14

8. The plan… Citizen Access National Organisations – With National Systems …one of 14 Private & Voluntary Care Providers

9. “one way to avoid the risks of a central, state-run monolithic database of the entire population would be to have some sort of federated system” Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner, 3 February 2004

10. Child Protection Messaging

11. Child Protection Messaging • A means of sending a flag on child protection activity out to professionals working with children; • Single national approach to the sharing of child protection information; • Should lead to timely intervention and help stop children from falling through the net. • First step of Getting It Right For Every Child

12. Child Protection Messaging • Should never be seen as an alternative to current child protection procedures: • An aid to understanding the fuller picture for a child; • An aid to diagnosis perhaps and; • At all times an alert to act further and follow agreed processes and procedures.

13. A child protection investigation has commenced for a child and they are not on the register A child protection investigation has commenced for a child and they are on the register • A child has been placed • on the child protection register • There has been past child • protection activity for a child Current Child Protection Activity (either a Registration and/or Investigation) on a child who is linked to the child who is the subject of the activity. Previous Child Protection Activity (either a Registration and/or Investigation) on a child who is linked to the child who is the subject of the activity. • Standards for the messages have recently been consulted upon • Final standards will be published in due course

14. An example of how a child protection message may look Anytown Team Big House Straight street Anytown Tel 123 4536 Out of hours Little House Curve street Anytown Tel 123 8888

15. Trigger is enacted Information sent to Multi-Agency Store Store houses the information Store creates a notification that a message is available Recipient system identifies that a message is waiting Recipient system Pulls down the Message Practitioners open child’s record in their system and view message Practitioners can View further Information in Store Practitioners follow Usual child protection procedures Information entered to IT system in usual way

16. To recap… • Supporting Data Sharing Partnerships • National Governance • National standards for technology development and organisational change • Not just an IT project! • Policy Driven – Service User Centric – Practitioner Led – Technology Enabled • CPM, Getting It Right, eSSA

17. Robots in Disguise? • Maybe… • …but helpful ones… • Think K-9…not the Daleks

18. Further Information at: • www.scotland.gov.uk\dss • eCare@scotland.gsi.gov.uk