Multi Agency Safeguarding Tracker

"We looked at one particular postcode over 12 months and found 136 people known to services in that year. That’s exactly the power of being able to give insight from the hundreds of thousands of records that sit within MAST."

Kelli Richards Principal Officer of Early Help services in Swansea

The annual report found that too often, different safeguarding agencies are holding different pieces of the same puzzle through their interactions with families, adults, and children, but are unable to piece those parts of the puzzle together effectively in certain cases. The lack of information sharing between these partners is, therefore, unfortunately, regularly cited as a contributing or key factor in those situations.

Abigail Everett Policy in Practice

This quote from a social worker really sums up MAST: Ultimately for me and my colleagues, this will be a game changer. So often we do not know about things that have happened with our families. Sometimes schools are told, sometimes schools then tell us, sometimes no one knows for weeks. Not only would this save us time and effort, but it would allow us to make much better decisions for our priorities and interact better across the system.

Sam Fathers Policy in Practice