Supporting More Than Just Troubled Families
by ECINS Founder and CEO, Gary Pettengell ECINS has a very different way of supporting the Troubled Families Agenda. It is much more than just a bespoke Troubled Families software 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.
Family Assessment – Saving Time for Practitioners
One of the key advantages of the ECINS Family Assessment Tool is the considerable amount of time it saves practitioners and key workers including Troubled Families Co-ordinators. Usual practice, until more →
New Electronic Family Assessment Tool Helps Analyse Results
With the news that the Government has commissioned a consortium of research bodies to keep track of its Troubled Families Programme, Councils are now tasked with compiling progress reports and more →
Focus on: ECINS’ Heather Ette spoke to 180° Norfolk IOM’s Police Sgt Eddie Hammond
HE: At what point in your IOM programme did you start to use ECINS, was your IOM programme already well established? EH: ECINS had been established around 9 months prior more →
Creating an Electronic Family Assessment
The process of creating an assessment is quick and simple. When an assessment is started it automatically ‘pulls through’ the family members you have previously identified. This speeds up the more →
ECINS to meet with RGSB on Self Exclusion
ECINS has been invited by the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board (RGSB) to join a Self-Exclusion Working Group that will be looking at the key issues around implementing an effective self-exclusion more →
Count Me Out Alcohol and Gambling Self Exclusion Programmes
The Count Me Out systems of Alcohol and Gambling Self Exclusion have an important role to play in helping to prevent the break-up of the family unit and people turning more →
Case Study – Vulnerable Adult
by Andy Solomon, ASB Team Leader, Ipswich Borough Council The Issue A 23 year old single female in an Registered Social Landlord property, she is vulnerable and was persuaded to more →
ECINS Family Assessment Feature
One of the ways ECINS helps customers with their Troubled Families initiatives is through a specially created Family Risk Assessment Tool. The electronic ECINS Family Assessment functionality was developed in more →
Focus on Troubled Families – What works?
The Troubled Family Initiative is spurring many local authorities and their partners to look at the different strategies being used around the country to help them deliver the best outcomes more →
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
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
