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Child Protection - Information Sharing (CP-IS) service roadmap

CP-IS has a roadmap to extend coverage and champion data sharing between agencies.

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Strategy

NHS England has a statutory duty under the Children Act 2004 to have due regard for safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children in the discharge of its functions. 

The sharing of child protection information and health data using the CP-IS enables Local Authorities, health bodies and NHS England to meet their statutory duties under the Children Act. 

In response to this, CP-IS is being made available to the following care settings that have been prioritised for system access, as attendance here is most likely to indicate an increased risk of harm to a child: 

  • general practice in hours
  • child and adolescent mental health services (all four tiers)
  • sexual health: sexual assault referral centres
  • sexual health: termination of pregnancy services
  • 0-19 services: school nursing and health visitors 
  • community paediatrics 
  • dentistry (appointment-based dentistry including emergency dental care) 

Roadmap

The project roadmap outlines crucial project stages, objectives and timelines that we are researching or planning to deliver in coming months.

Its aim is to make it easier to understand and encourage teams to work together to improve patient care and service delivery.

This roadmap was last reviewed by the team on 13 March 2024.  

April to June 2024
  • implementation of CP-IS across the NHS to the care settings list above with silent read as the associated model of implementation
  • start development of FHIR API to support third party supplier / shared care record integration
  • handover the implementation of CP-IS to ICBs
  • continue to support the onboarding assurance of clinical systems for use in scheduled care
October 2023 to March 2024
  • continued the deployment of CP-IS via the NCRS to early adopter sites.  Feedback captured to support full rollout of the service
  • supported third party supplier/shared care record integration
  • prepare to handover the implementation of CP-IS to ICBs from April 2024
  • achieved full rollout approval to implement within identified care settings

Change history

In this section you can find project milestones that the service reached in previous years.

2023
  • Information Governance Framework confirmed and first set of Data Sharing Agreements in place with all 152 Local Authorities who share data with health using CP-IS
  • developed the ‘Silent Read’ of CPIS, enabling access to CP-IS from scheduled care settings.  The Silent read allows a record on CP-IS to be viewed without an attendance alert being shared with Local Authorities or connected health care systems
  • deployed CP-IS access via the National Care Record Service to new scheduled care settings, as early adopters
  • identified clinical system suppliers and shared care record owners to integrate directly with CP-IS.  Began the process of onboarding clinical systems who want to use CP-IS in scheduled care with the silent read with first integration completed

Get involved

To discuss and provide input to our strategy and roadmap, contact us.

Last edited: 8 April 2024 9:56 am