Integrated Children's System
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Purpose
The Integrated Children's System (ICS) is a framework for working with children in need and their families.
The practice and case record keeping is supported by information technology that is designed to handle a large amount of information on individual children. This area of the Every Child Matters website is intended for anyone working to implement the ICS.
The ICS has been developed to improve outcomes for children defined as being in need, under the Children Act 1989.
It provides a conceptual framework, a method of practice and a business process to support practitioners and managers in undertaking the key tasks of assessment, planning, intervention and review.
It is based on an understanding of children's developmental needs in the context of parental capacity and wider family and environmental factors. It has full regard for current legislation.
Because the work with children in need requires skilled use of detailed and complex information, ICS is designed to be supported by an electronic case record system. A key aim of ICS is to provide frontline staff and their managers with the necessary help, through information communication technology (ICT), to record, collate, analyse and output the information required.
Document
Full details of pahse 1C (2008) can be accessed via the Integrated Children’s System Phase 1C Business Requirements Specification
