eStart

Manage your Children’s Centres, develop a greater understanding of local needs and target resources more appropriately to deliver more sustainable services with One eStart.

Effective monitoring

Record and monitor the services provided to children and families by community based settings such as Children’s Centres.

Rigorous assessments

Practitioners are able to review and assess the quality and effectiveness of local services.

Greater insight

It’s easier to analyse the changing nature of community needs at a local and regional level and adapt services appropriately.

Access information securely anytime, anywhere

Practitioners are able to access all the information they need on children and their families in the community from any internet-enabled PC through a secure web-based system.

• See the whole picture
  • Careworkers, health visitors and other professionals can find up-to-date contact information and details of services being provided to children and families, giving a clearer picture of particular client circumstances
  • Practitioners can readily record the outcomes achieved by event attendees and either signpost individuals to more specialist services or work with parents, carers and children to define more targeted individual development plans to maximise the outcomes for the children
  • Enable the authority to monitor the adoption rates and feedback from services, spot trends in needs and evaluate the future sustainability of services to inform future budgetary and commissioning decisions
  • Combined with the Cost Effectiveness module, authorities can quickly and easily perform complex analytical tasks to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of services and where they are contributing to Every Child Matters outcomes
     
• Improved, timely communication for more efficient working
  • A reminder service for appointments provided via SMS text messaging minimises missed -appointments
  • Information on new or existing services can also be delivered in the same format to hard-to-reach families.
    Access and share core information with multi-agency teams to strengthen partnership working and minimise error and duplication

Data on children and families does not have to be re-entered or maintained by different agencies or teams. Instead, One eStart ensures that all professionals working with children and families across the community can access detailed information to ensure that the right services and support is provided.

Powerful reporting tools make it a simple and efficient task to see what level of services is being accessed and identify any gaps in provision. By identifying and targeting hard-to-reach and the most disadvantaged groups, One eStart enables Children’s Centres to more effectively tailor their services to meet the specific needs of their community.

One eStart facilitates more efficient information sharing, enabling more integrated multi-agency services to be delivered. Individual practitioners, childcare providers and the authority can more easily share data electronically enabling a more joined-up approach by practitioners from different disciplines to co-ordinate and deliver services that best support the needs of local children and families.

One eStart:

• Makes it easier to deliver tailored services reflecting the local priorities of the Every Child Matters agenda
• Enables the efficient monitoring of the attendance, satisfaction and outcome of activities
  Provides key evidence to support self-evaluation and the annual conversation
• Tracks compliance with National Indicators
• Improves the targeting and advertising of services to hard-to-reach groups through a variety of different media
• Provides authorities with evidence of the relevance, sufficiency and sustainability of services