Keeping up-to-date with industry best practice and new regulations in early intervention, collaborative work practices, safe data sharing and safeguarding for vulnerable people is at the heart of our business and innovations. This is a place to share what we learn.
We are seeing evidence that shows early intervention is vital in violence preventing. Supporting children, young people and families before violence escalates delivers better outcomes for communities. It also reduces more →
This month, we’re focusing on how partners are working together to address high-demand hotspots: from anti-social behaviour and repeat incidents to more complex safeguarding concerns. These “hotspots” often place significant more →
Anti-social behaviour (ASB) is often not a “single incident” problem. It is a repeat-pattern problem—repeat locations, repeat cohorts, repeat victims, repeat calls for service. The challenge is that the response more →
Youth anti-social behaviour (ASB) is often the visible symptom of a repeating pattern. A basic definition could be: concentrated harm to community. It’s harm concentrated in specific places and times. more →
England & Wales’ police forces received 963,847 reports of anti-social behavior in 2025. This figure indicates a 0.89% increase in reports compared to the previous year’s data. So, the overall crime more →
At ECINS, we know that practitioners handle sensitive information on the job every day. So we also understand that, when AI enters the picture, protecting sensitive case notes is a more →
The UK government has announced a new partnership with OpenAI, which provides the public sector with access to innovative AI tools to support workers. For ECINS clients, this development signifies more →
Meeting summaries are a pillar of effective communication and case management. They are vital in documenting discussed topics, progress tracking, and identifying next steps/action items. Without meeting summaries, communication across more →
No two days are the same for people in frontline services. Recording case notes consistently, however, remains key. Standardizing case notes reduces misunderstandings, improve outcomes, and facilitates information sharing between more →
1 in 16 children reported that they ‘always’ or ‘often’ felt hungry over the summer break. While school holidays are often viewed as a time for rest and recharge, removing more →
Sussex Police has halved the average number of days it takes to progress Restorative Justice Cases from Referral to finalisation since introducing ECINS.
Elize Manning, RJ Coordinator, Sussex Police
ECINS has been instrumental in the information sharing process that allowed us to produce a timely report to Social Care … (and) may well have prevented a serious case review having to be carried out.
Andy Solomon, ASB Team Leader of the Community Protection Team, Ipswich Borough Council, UK
Knowing that the information is on the system, but can’t be accessed by the whole network reassures the young person making disclosures, whilst also enabling an inclusive management of risk.
Jules Trompowsky, Rescue and Response Partnership Coordinator, Rescue and Response Project (County Lines), Brent Council, UK
ECINS can be turned on, introduced, implemented and rolled out quickly, easily and at good value for money – it doesn’t get better than that really.
Simon Clifford, Director of Technology and Digital Transformation, Northamptonshire OPCC
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