Data Accelerator Fund News Today

The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care described the IT systems used by children’s services as “poorly configured”. These, it said, create barriers to data collection, delay information sharing and add extra bureaucracy for social workers to navigate, which takes them away from frontline practice.

Troubled Families programme succeeded in helping people, although opinion is split on whether lives were ‘turned around’. Experts say new scheme must focus on tackling causes of poverty, domestic abuse and mental ill health.