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Bevan Exemplar Cohort 8 Projects

Safeguarding Data Access and Searching in Community Software (WCCIS)

Andrew Green

Digital Health and Care Wales

Project Background:

Based on almost all current and past serious case reviews across health and social care, information sharing especially information on potential for risk and harm is not being accessed widely enough to allow balanced and correct interventions in many key service areas.

“Information is not sufficiently considered which may lead to a safeguarding risk.”

NSPCC Case reviews published in 2023 quote from single recommendation but repeating a common theme.

https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/case-reviews/recently-published-case-reviews/

​Project Aims:

Create a distributed on/off method for local organisations to leverage data access across WCCIS and wider databases to allow better visibility of critical client information for safeguarding.

Widen easy client safeguarding data access to be more inclusive for users to quickly search for issues when planning or considering information on intervention/cases.

Project Outcomes:

Within WCCIS we have created user access and searches that can be used to view safeguarding information easily.

Project Impact:

A WCCIS Security Team is created and can be deployed as required. Full Data Access Safeguarding Search view is available once role is shared. Selected users can search quickly and easily to view warnings and case details across all the WCCIS community database. All WCCIS workers that are allowed can quickly see where safeguarding concerns are shown on client records. Interventions where required can be better planned and more considered in the light of a complete information set.

“The New User Team and Search Function will be of tremendous use to EDT and other front desk workers”

Administration User

View the project poster and slides from the Cohort 8 Bevan Exemplar Showcase