The School Transport project aimed to improve the end-to-end application process for school / college transport

This service includes:

• Online applications for School or College Transport
• A range of services were developed: New Applications, Appeals, Replacement or Stolen Passes, Passes No Longer Required, Change of Address
• Application Tracker – to allow customers to track the progress of their application
• Integration of an online payment system
• Review of the website content to enable customers to find information quicker and easier
• Creation of a dashboard system for back office staff to manage and administer high volume application requests

The same approach was adopted for Concessionary Bus Passes (pensioner passes, disabled and disabled with companion)

A new portal to enable sharing of Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) cases with partner agencies.

These agencies include:

Children's Services, Health WHCT (including CCG), Health WAHT, Adult Safeguarding, Community Social Worker Team, Youth Justice Service, Swanswell and the Police (HAU).

• cases can be added by Children's Services to be discussed at MASH and flagged to selected partner agencies for relevant background information to be added
• secure communication to partner agencies to inform them of new MASH case, date and time
• each Partner Agency Single Agency Chronology of significant events is collated into a Multi Agency chronology for review at MASH meeting
• dashboard to manage MASH cases and real time documentation of agreed actions and outcome, enabling timely distribution of minutes
• ability to convert to Strategy Discussion if required and ensure required agencies have copies of minutes
• minutes available for limited time for partners to download or upload directly to Children's Social Care system (Frameworki), email notification to remind them after 5 working day

A fully online and integrated application for schools, Education (Babcock) and WCC staff to access and share safeguarding information, raise concerns, raise a school closure and access a range of other services through the “Single View of a Child”

The portal includes the following features:

• display education and social care information within a single portal to assist safeguarding of a child.
• securely share this information internally and with selected partners, e.g., NHS, Police etc.
• role based permissions for viewing appropriate content, e.g., Risk of NEET Indicator
• direct integration with Education and Social Care systems (Capita One and Frameworki) displaying real-time data.
• search using a range of known details relevant to each user role type.
• monitor frequency of searches to enable a 360-degree view of system usage to enable proactive intervention.

This system includes:

• customers include WCC staff, Care Homes, Domiciliary Care Agencies, NHS, and a variety of partner agencies
• book and pay online for a WCC training course
• automatic confirmation on completion of booking and notifications of any subsequent changes
• trainers can access a course list and see any delegate’s special requirements without having to contact the administration team
• reports, attendee lists and feedback forms can be pulled directly from the site saving significant time
• £50k saving enabled as a direct result of cutting back manual administrative processes

‘’The system has enabled a different way of working for me. I am able to access details on available courses, the course content and relevance in one easy to navigate screen" 

(Rose Hannant, Business Support Co-ordinator)

An online application that allows professionals to book telephone appointments for social work advice from the Community Social Work Team within the Family Front Door

• school professional access via a button on the ChS Portal
• non-school professionals' access via the Family Front Door Professionals Portal
• allows professionals to interactively search for available slots and book a time that is suitable for them
• professional has the opportunity to give details of what they want to discuss in advance so the Social Worker can prepare for the appointment. This gives the professional a better customer experience
• Community Social workers manage all appointments through a dashboard
• managers have the ability for complete administration of the site – including number of available appointments, duty times, locations of duty Social Workers
• appointments can be assigned to individual Social Workers
• dashboard is fully searchable and has the ability to be filtered to suit the users

A fully end-to-end service where customers/ businesses can apply and pay for a range of land/property related searches to determine legal boundaries, extents of responsibility and information for the applicant or location that were previously only available as a paper-based application.

This system:

• removed the need for locally held spreadsheet data that was clunky and non-user friendly.
• provided targeted communications to key users and helped with immediate take up by the customer
• ongoing average of 99% self-service since go live in November 2016.
• payment is made online at point of application supporting time savings in processing applications removing the need for pursuing any outstanding monies owed.
• service area dashboard created where staff can administer applications and access reports in real time.

"The new process has saved us time in handling and processing applications.  It has enabled us to operate a more efficient and organised system that is also more user friendly." 

(Ed Dursley, Street works Notifications Manager)