Boost safeguarding through multi agency data sharing
17 March
The responsibility to safeguard vulnerable residents lies with councils and a range of safeguarding partners, but too often vulnerability is identified too late. Limited data co-ordination between organisations makes it hard not only to identify people who need support before they hit a crisis, but also to understand whether they are known to other safeguarding agencies and the wider safeguarding landscape.
Prevention is critical to improve safeguarding and we know that data needs to be more effectively shared across agencies if we are to better protect vulnerable people and reduce the potential of people falling into the social care system. This is a big challenge.
Listen back to hear learnings from a powerful project, backed by the LGA and NHS Digital, to link data across adult services, children’s services, public health, the NHS, Police and Fire and Rescue Services.
Listen back to hear
- Introduction to SCDIA and the MAST project
- The problem we are solving
- How to get a clear view of safeguarding concerns
- Tackling security and data governance challenges
- How safeguarding teams will benefit
- Project learnings and how you can use MAST
