Transform Family View (TFV)
Welcome to Transform Family View, a comprehensive digital platform developed by Somerset Council to provide a single, digital view of a child’s and family’s circumstances. Our goal is to enhance the support and services offered to families by ensuring that all relevant information is easily accessible by professionals and up-to-date.
To find out more on Transform Family View, access latest news and view upcoming training sessions visit Transform Family View on Support Services for Education Website
What is Transform Family View?
Transform Family View is an innovative digital solution designed to consolidate and streamline information about children and families. By integrating data from various sources, we create a holistic view that helps professionals make informed decisions and provide better support.
Key features
- Unified Data Access: Access all relevant information about a child and their family in one place, including educational information, Children Social Care involvement and support from the Voluntary Community Sector.
- Accurate and up-to-date information: Ensure that the information is accurate, with automated updates from multiple sources across the early help system.
- Secure and Confidential: Protect the privacy and confidentiality of families with robust security measures and strict data governance policies.
- User-Friendly Interface: Navigate the platform easily with an intuitive and user-friendly interface designed by professionals for professional.
- Localities Page: Snapshot of professionals and their contact details working across the localities.
- Risk of Leaving School Early: Identification of children who are likely to be at risk of leaving school early or becoming NEET (Not in Education or Employment) with resources to support professionals with early interventions.
Benefits
- Improved Decision-Making: Make informed decisions and more effective triaging with a comprehensive view of a child’s and family’s situation. Leading to reduction in risk, threat and harm.
- Enhanced Collaboration: Foster better collaboration among professionals from different sectors, including health, education, and lead professionals. Joining up the early help system.
- Efficient Service Delivery: Streamline processes and reduce duplication of efforts, leading to more efficient and effective service delivery.
- Reduces the retrieval burden: Professionals save time by knowing who to contact, to join up support.
- Families telling ‘their story’ once: Families circumstances change, but their history and demographics don’t. Families tell us they don’t want to keep telling ‘their story’.
How it works
Transform Family View integrates data from over 32 data sources, including education, Family Intervention Services, Children Social Care, Youth Justice, DWP, the Police and Voluntary Community support services to create a single, digital view. This information is then made available to authorised professionals through power BI, who can use it to provide better support and services to families.
Funded by the Department of Education, who cite Local Authorities as having a Single Digital view as ‘best practice’.
Training
Training sessions are delivered through Teams, covering the use of TFV, the lawful bases used for joining information in this way and how to protect the information. No need to ‘pre-book’, simply join with the link. Bring your DBS number to the session to start the permissions process.
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Contact Somerset Council Transform@somerset.gov.uk to learn more about Transform Family View and how it can benefit your organisation. Together, we can make a difference.
Gill Bawler – Service Manager Partnership Transformation: gill.bawler@somerset.gov.uk.