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Quality Data for Children in Care (Alpha)

Contents:

  1. Project outputs
  2. Project timeline
  3. Project summary - video
  4. Discovery stage project summary - video

This alpha project, led by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is looking at improving data and evidence on children in care. This project is a continuation of the discovery funded in round 1 of the Local Digital Fund.

Children in care often have poor lifetime outcomes arising from neglect, abuse and trauma. Improving the quality of that care and investing in early intervention and prevention can improve life chances and generate wider benefits, including reduced criminal justice costs and better educational outcomes.

Project outputs

This project has produced outputs from the alpha stage:

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Project details

Phase: Alpha

Funding granted: £100,000

Duration: October 2019 - March 2020

Partners: Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Wigan Council, Manchester City Council, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, Department for Education, Milton Keynes Council, Isle of Wight Council, West Berkshire Council, East Sussex Council, Buckinghamshire Council, Bracknell Forest Council

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Project timeline

December 2018 - discovery

Previous ‘Common data model for children’s services statutory returns’ discovery receives £80,000 from the Local Digital Fund.

April 2019 - discovery

‘Common data model for children’s services statutory returns’ discovery delivers project outputs which are published on the Local Digital website.

October 2019 - alpha

‘Improving data and evidence on children in care’ alpha is awarded £100,000 from the Local Digital Fund.

February 2020 - alpha

The project team of the ‘Improving data and evidence on children in care’ alpha continue producing the agreed outputs, which will be published openly on the Local Digital website.

February 2021

The project receives £250,000 of follow-on funding to continue their work.

Building on the prototype developed in the previous project phase, the team will now build the web-based tool for analysts to identify the errors in their data and automatically fix 37% of these errors.

The project team will also build a community of engaged analysts to contribute to developing the tool further, and become up-skilled in using Python to automate tasks in a practical way.