The County Lines and Child Criminal Exploitation issue
A growing national problem, County Lines and Child Criminal Exploitation, is affecting the safety and welfare of thousands of people across the UK. It impacts a range of complex issues more →
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.
The continuous improvement process
Beginning where you are at The first step in the continuous improvement approach is taking the time to understand the processes you are currently using. It is only from there more →
Professionals Rally Round to Dramatically Reduce the Number of Children Being Permanently Excluded From Schools
A unique service in Peterborough, dedicated to reducing the number of children permanently excluded in schools, is helping to provide a range of specialist support to children with additional needs more →
Shropshire’s ‘whole family’ approach gets to the heart of early intervention service delivery
Across Shropshire, partners are using ECINS to work together and share relevant information. The multi-agency approach, the training that has been undertaken, the engagement with schools and the partnership with more →
Shropshire charity helps young people to manage their anger
Dealing with an angry child can be exhausting, particularly when the issues seem relentless. But very few parents look for moral support and many just trudge on endlessly in the more →
How Northamptonshire Police are reducing school exclusions
Every year around 5’000 young people are excluded from school. Many of these turn to crime and only 15% return to mainstream education. In an effort to intervene earlier, Northamptonshire more →
How Derby City Council is planning to minimise the fallout from Universal Credit
The UK’s first Single Discretionary Award combines three payments into one. The Guardian recently discovered that the Universal Credit rollout is causing many applicants to fall into dire circumstances due to more →
How we calculate public sector savings. Taking a pragmatic evidence-based approach avoids publishing figures that are wildly optimistic.
When budgets are being cut everywhere, it’s important to make decisions based on evidence not guesswork. But the question ‘how much will this save’ isn’t an easy one to answer. more →
Why Facebook isn’t the answer to social isolation
Social isolation not only destroys confidence, but it also increases the risk of an early death by 26%, which makes it just as dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. more →
A multi-agency approach to Child Sexual Exploitation
5% of 11–17 year olds have experienced Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE). This equates to around 50 children in every secondary school in England and Wales. To combat this, the Government more →
Our partnership and the ECINS platforms will give the AMHC a competitive edge and place us at the cutting edge of monitoring and evaluation for Aboriginal men who use intimate partner violence (IPV).
Devon Cuimara, Founder CEO, Aboriginal Males Healing Centre
The difference ECINS is making to our organisation for efficiency, effectiveness, accessibility and managing our caseloads is enormous.
Kirsty Richardson, Head of Operations, Tiny Life
The time savings we’ve been able to make since using ECINS has been enormous. We’ve been able to significantly cut down the time we spend on data entry and searching for information. It is just so quick!
Chris Day, Housing Support Worker, 180° Norfolk, UK
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
