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.
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 Not in Education or Employment (NEET ) 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, Department for Work and Pensions, 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 Transform Family View, 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.
- Friday, 20 June 2025: 9am – 1am, join the meeting now
- Thursday, 26 June 2025: 12pm – 1pm, join the meeting now
- Wednesday, 2 July 2025: 10am – 11am, join the meeting now
- Thursday, 10 July 2025: 1pm – 2pm, join the meeting now
- Tuesday, 15 July 2025: 4pm – 5pm, join the meeting now
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Get Iinvolved and contact us
Join us in transforming the way we support children and families. Together, we can make a difference.
Contact Somerset Council at Transform@somerset.gov.uk to learn more about Transform Family View and how it can benefit your organisation.