Evidence and impact of MAST on safeguarding practice in West Glamorgan
09 July
Partners across Neath Port Talbot Council, Swansea Council and Swansea Bay UHB have been piloting the Multi Agency Safeguarding Tracker (MAST) for over six months now, with incredible results.
By proactively sharing headline data taken from existing systems each night, colleagues can see ‘near live’ activity from key partners, across both people and addresses, spanning the previous 12 months. With the introduction of a ‘priority list’, social workers can also be actively notified when something happens to a child or adult with an open case, which includes the contact details of the officer in charge to help both in prevention and support.
Having evaluated MAST over the past few months, this session, hosted by CC2i, goes into detail regarding the impact MAST is having on practice, with real life scenarios where the data driven system has helped safeguarding professionals see both details and the bigger picture, and helped them to deliver more relevant, personal support.
With savings across the three partners already estimated to be reach £2million, the impact of the system could be game changing, and with Police, Youth Justice and Education data soon to be added, this will only increase.
Listen back to hear
- Information sharing challenges - what is MAST and West Glamorgan Safeguarding Board background
- Key MAST functionality
- Information governance
- Live data feeds and volume of records
- West Glamorgan Safeguarding Board evaluation report
- Real case studies and impact
- Headline financial evaluation
- Expanding MAST
"We often say the problem in safeguarding is poor information sharing, but that’s not true. The real issue is visibility... with so many systems, nobody knows who’s got what. That’s what MAST solves. It shows you who holds which piece of the puzzle. Instead of writing more policies, we need to make vulnerability visible."
"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."
