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.
Across policing, safeguarding and community safety, identifying vulnerability before it escalates into crisis is a key challenge. Whether it is a child at risk of exploitation, an adult experiencing domestic more →
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 →
ECINS offers tailored, user-friendly ASB case management tools designed for frontline challenges, enabling efficient, collaborative, and compassionate support that adapts to unique community needs.
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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 →
Children’s Services were preparing to close a case that they deemed low risk. However, after looking on ECINS, they saw other agencies had identified significant safeguarding concerns and the family more →
Having our information on ECINS … enables our Outreach Team to work outside of the office in community settings thus providing significant cost and time savings.
Deborah Hooton, Service Manager, Nottinghamshire Sexual Violence Support Services
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
As ECINS is accessible remotely, officers can upload information on their i-pads when out on the street so they are actively addressing live operations.
Claire Hardy, Senior Practitioner (Crime & ASB) – City Wide Operations, Public Protection & Licensing Directorate, Westminster City Council
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
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