4 NATIONS WORK ON

DATA STANDARDSBill McCluggage

Director of eGovernmentOffice of the First Minister & Deputy First Minister

Northern Ireland

Health & Personal Social Services

Strategic Framework for Children, Young People & Families

STEERING GROUP

Health TrustsNorthern Ireland OfficePSNIOFMDFM

MENCAPNSPCCNCHRNIDBarnardo’sDisability Action

Chair DHSSPS

‘7.27 Research and experience have shown repeatedly that keeping children safe from harm requires professionals and others to share information about a child’s health and development and exposure to possible harm….’

Bichard Enquiry

‘One of the aims of eCare is to develop systems and procedures that will ensure that as many barriers to information-sharing as possible are removed. eCare is much more than an IT solution. It is about ensuring that organisation and cultural change also occurs to enable practitioners to feel comfortable in using the tools and in sharing information across agencies.’

‘In order to identify and address children's holistic needs, information sharing within and across agencies is vital.’

Population & ID Card Registers

• Citizen Information Project

• National Identity Register

47,823 people moved to Scotland from the rest of the UK (7,714 were between 0-15 years old)

47,766 people moved from Scotland to somewhere else in the UK (7,411 were 0-15 years old)

Inter-Regional Migration Flows

General Register Office for Scotland

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Northern Ireland Migration Statistics

The premise of the 4 Nations Group is that if we are to create a generic person message that will allow systems to match/identify citizens so that there can be a legal and consent-based information flow then we have to establish a common basis for communication.

A standards-based approach

What data is essential to data sharing?

• Name• Address• Gender• Date of Birth/Death• Place of birth• Unique reference number

Benefits

• Customer satisfaction• Inter-operability• Efficiency• Improved effectiveness

How far have we got?

• Initial core data messaging standards produced

• Consultation with other organisations required

• Consultation with the public

• Pilot standards

“… he who will not apply new remedies must accept new evils. For time is the greatest innovator.”

Francis Bacon