Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

This has resulted in a road map of prioritised practical actions to empower all of these stakeholders. The first priority is the development of a single national child care information system, which is needed urgently to support case management. Standardised business processes are being defined nationwide at present which can be integrated into the national child care information system and will facilitate the introduction and implementation of that system to support front line staff in their day-to-day operations, as well as provide key management information in a better defined more timely manner to assist all concerned to assess need and risk and address problems together.

The objective is to provide for faster and more effective interaction between all the professionals and service providers involved, irrespective of where they work in the HSE or the NGO voluntary providers working with HSE. During all this work, we found there is a very strong collective desire among all the stakeholders to improve, standardise and to collaborate in streamlining information——

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