The Wiltshire DART Digital Assessment and Referral … Wiltshire DART – Digital Assessment and...
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Why change anything? • 55% of Early Help referrals come in by alternative mechanism to SARF
• Children are being assessed and re-assessed
• 80% of assessment and referral questions across the Early Help Sector are the same,
but each service has its own paperwork
• Less than 20% of Early Help referrals are for children with a CAF/MSP, despite complexity of situations and need for multi-agency responses
• CAF register is small and shrinking, especially for over 12’s.
• Professionals are increasingly frustrated at unclear/inconsistent pathways and
thresholds
• Recording and visibility of the child’s journey was inconsistent
What do we want to achieve? • Reduce ‘reassessment’ of children and families.
• Support professionals’ understanding of service thresholds and whether further
assessments or screening is required.
• Divert inappropriate referrals headed for council services, including the MASH.
• Encourage a ‘what can I do first?’ culture.
• Reduce the burden of paperwork on professionals trying to create holistic and consistent assessments of need.
• Provide greater oversight of who we are supporting, where, when and why.
• Provide commissioning intelligence pressure points, trends and demand sources.
What is the DART? • Online early identification/screening tool
• Bespoke questionnaire based on user’s concern about a child or young person
• Pre-defined responses support consistent application of threshold
• Answers used to build action plan – Signposting? Further assessments? Referrals?
• Safeguarding concerns identified based on MASH threshold
• Requirement for CAF/MSP enforced where need identified
• Answers used to create bespoke action plan - signposting, further assessments, direct referrals or requests for support (where appropriate).
• Reportable information on presenting factors and levels of concern based on child’s age, area and school.
• Oversight of case loads, nature of support requests and sources of requests by agency.
Next steps • Pilot phase April 2017
• Invitations to 37 settings, 3 children’s centres and 1 district specialist centre to pilot the DART
• Test sessions with school nurses, health visitors and speech and language Detailed feedback on usability, function, time commitment and thresholds
• Final development stage Summer 2017
• Launch planned for October 2017 in line with new Children’s Services Case
Management System.