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Information for Social Care policy archive
The Information for Social Care project is part of the Social Care Quality Programme. It sets the Government's strategy for improving the information systems used by social services departments.
Policy information
Electronic Social Care Record presentation
To view and hear a PowerPoint presentation with sound by Alan Miles of Gloucestershire County Council explaining the Electronic Social Care Record (the powerpoint documents and sound files are zipped to minimise file size and download time). You will need to download all the files for the presentation into one folder in order for them to synchronise:
- Download Gloucestershire County Council's PowerPoint presentation with sound explaining the Electronic Social Care Record (ZIP, 5141K)
- Download ESCR presentation sound files - part 1 (ZIP, 15729K)
- Download ESCR presentation sound files - part 2 (ZIP, 17801K)
Presentations from the Demonstrator Projects Feedback Conferences
17 November and 10 December 2003.
- Presentations on Electronic Social Care Record, information sharing, connectivity and related topics
The Children's Social Services Core Information Requirements
from the DH Quality Protects Management Information Project Team: update to version 3.1 (14 November 2003) now encompasses the Integrated Children's System and new changes in adoption law.
Process mapping: Hackney Consortium
Training materials for a process mapping system including descriptive and normative sample process maps from a wide range of London local authorities using Visio v.5 project management system.
Process mapping: Stockton Consortium
Use of an electronic record to support and enhance the process of care within mental health using Prince 2 project management system.
Briefing Paper 2 : Data set developments and data standards
This briefing by Mike Barker and Roger Staton of the Information Policy Unit - Social Care explains how dataset developments support National Service Frameworks (NSFs), enable information standardisation independent of provenance , embrace both health and social services and are particularly important for children's services, older people, mental health and long term conditions.
Framework document
The Information for Social Care framework document, published in May 2001, set out the Government's overall strategy for enhancing information systems in social care. It outlined the responsibilities of councils and their partners to work together with the Department and other central agencies to draw up local action plans. Many of the issues covered are relevant today, but for an update on individual issues, see the relevant web pages in this section of the site.
Local Information Plans
As part of the Information for Health programme, councils with social care responsibilities were required to produce a Local Information Plan (LIP) for 2001-5. The plans identify ways to improve the security, usability and performance of councils' social care information systems.
Demonstrator projects
Innovative projects aimed at identifying transferable lessons in information management and IT.
Core information required
The central IT requirements of local councils with social care responsibilities. Information for system users and system providers.
Reports and publications
Documents about the Information for Social Care project.
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