Co-designed by Data to Insight, Essex County Council, and system experts, NVEST is the National Voice for Excellence in Safeguarding Tech - a new, freely accessible, platform-agnostic venue for local authorities to work together to improve the information systems we use to support safeguarding work.
We're creating a network of local authorities who can work together and pool ideas and resources. We'll share new developments, research, and innovation. We'll act as a consultative group for central government, IT suppliers and others. Above all, we'll work together to improve systems and tech processes so that vulnerable people experience better outcomes.
Professor Eileen Munro to speak at NVEST’s inaugural meeting!
We are very excited to announce that Eileen Munro, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics, will be sharing her latest thoughts on safeguarding and technology at our planned event on 27th February 2025.
At this first meeting we will also be discussing the aims and objectives of NVEST, hearing about the latest updates on the Government’s Strategy for improving Case Management Systems and consulting you about how you think NVEST will work most effectively for your authorities to help inform its Terms of Reference.
To register to attend this event and/or to sign up to become an NVEST member, please visit here: NVEST | Data to Insight
Invitation to participate in research
Two of our NVEST co-founders, Ida Cohen and Pippa Barker, are currently supporting a DfE project to explore options for government to help improve the effectiveness of case management systems in LAs, particularly through introducing new standards. They are keen to engage Practitioners, System Support Workers and Performance Leads from a broad range of LAs as part of this work, initially through two workshops.
This is an opportunity to share your thoughts and ideas about how standards could help to improve your experience in using case management systems. Sessions have been scheduled on 5/03/2025 11am and 6/3/2024 at 3pm, you only need to join one of these, each of them will run for about 1.5 hours. If you would like to join, please email Harry.Angus@socialfinance.org.uk and let him know which session you would like to attend.
DfE publishes the outcomes of the Data and Digital Solutions Fund
In 2022 the DfE launched the Data and Digital Solutions Fund (DDSF) as part of its response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, led by Josh McAlister. Outcomes have now been published on the DDSF projects, which include:
Hertfordshire County Council: Standardised dataset for children’s social care.
Warrington Borough Council: Improving children’s social care pre-proceedings data.
London Borough of Barnet: Improving children’s services expenditure data.
North Tyneside Council: Improving how children’s voices are reflected in children’s services data.
London Borough of Newham: Research into barriers to information sharing.
Somerset Council: Materials to facilitate data sharing agreements / Guides to implementing a digital ‘single view’ of children and families / Evaluation of Bristol’s Think Family Database and associated ‘single view’ products.
Leeds Council: Understanding social worker recording.
Essex County Council: Understanding social worker recording.
North Yorkshire Council: Reimagining digital case management.
Visit this page to read more: DfE Data and Digital Solutions Fund | Data to Insight. To read DfE digital strategy for children’s social care, please visit: Children’s social care data and digital strategy - GOV.UK.
Keep up to date with NVEST
We’ve sent this newsletter to two groups of people; everyone who directly registered interest in NVEST via our website sign-up form, and everyone to whom we’ve sent an invitation to our inaugural event.
Future editions of this newsletter will only go to people who have registered interest in NVEST via the website sign-up form. If you’ve not previously done so, or if you’re receiving this email by forward from a colleague, you can sign up here: NVEST | Data to Insight
We’d love to hear from you about what you’re doing and related work. You can get in touch at any time by email.
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