Helping young people reducing youth crime

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Helping young people - reducing youth crime
Overview of RYOGENS
Draft presentation for toolkit with speaker
notes v0.5 29th March 2004
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Introductions and RYOGENS history
Mar 2006 and beyond..
May 2003
Mar 2004
Oct 2004
Aug 2002

• NP proposal (20k)
• Gov decision making.

• Phase 1 (2.9m)
• Design, Build, Pilot

• Phase 2 (300k)
• Commoditise
• Market/roll out.

Warwickshire County Council
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
London Borough of Lewisham
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Structure of presentation
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Background why share concerns

• The fact that different practitioners each have a
  partial view of a child means it is hard for any
  to have a holistic view. A lack of such a view
  can lead to tragic consequences

RYOGENS attempts to overcome this challenge
through the simple use of technology to share
concerns about children.
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Which concerns go into RYOGENS

• There are three levels of causes for concern
  about children

RYOGENS is about capturing the concerns that
taken together will help to identify vulnerable
children.
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Background - why arent we better at sharing
concerns?

• Organisational silos (both in Whitehall and
  locally)?
• Legislative barriers?
• Cultural barriers?
• Systems not communicating with each other?

The assumption RYOGENS has made is that all these
issues need to be addressed together.
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Background - the vision
RYOGENS Management Function
Processing triggers alert
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Background meeting Government challenges
Positioning of RYOGENS National Project
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RYOGENS and ODPM priority outcomes IEG3 and
IEG4 funding
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How we think RYOGENS will sit in relation to the
emerging DfES ISA agenda
Meets now?
Will meet?
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Practitioner/ RYOGENS focus
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Anticipated ISA/Bill minimum requirement
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Background contributing to ODPM priorities
100 capability in electronic delivery of services
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Background - relationships with other agendas
Information Sharing and Assessment (formerly IRT)
Children at risk of being victims
YISP
Children offending
Children at risk of offending
Childrens Trusts
Integrated Childrens System
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Structure of presentation
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Our products

• Web-based system that is externally hosted,
  supported and maintained.
• Web-site/toolkit offering guidance to Local
  Authorities seeking to implement RYOGENS or
  similar solutions.

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Overview of the toolkit
This is for Local Authorities wanting to
implement RYOGENS or to learn lessons from the
project. The toolkit is structured into four main
areas

• About RYOGENS overview, details of pilots,
  children from the pilots, business case
  calculator and Oxfords evaluation.
• Useful resources includes technology overview,
  insight into the policy context, links to
  relevant web-sites and demonstrations of the
  system.
• Implementation guide the stages, work packages
  and deliverables that may be required to
  implement RYOGENS.
• Support includes on line user forums and details
  of how to get involved

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Web-based system overview of the business
process
Contributing Agency
CONCERN
RYOGENS Management Function
RYOGENS Solution
ALERT
PRELIMINARY REVIEW
CLOSE/SUSPEND
FEEDBACK
FULL REVIEW
REFERRAL
ACTION
Intervention Agency(ies)
OUTCOME
FEEDBACK
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Technology Addressing systems integration
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Web-based system information sharing capability
For each action within RYOGENS access is based on
the Users role Action 1 Example Action 2
Example
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Web-based system information sharing capability
text.
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Web-based system overview of technology
providers and technology support
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Web-based system overview of security

• Security has to be carefully considered when
  sharing information over the
• internet. To this end a substantial investment
  has been made in this area
• including
• External hosting at secure facilities
• Access is restricted to authorised users who have
  to have been trained and have Criminal Records
  Bureau clearance
• Use of security software for user management and
  authentication, session management, and
  role-based access controls
• Only exposing the web server in the top tier of
  the architecture and this server is behind
  firewalls. The application servers are hidden
  behind a further firewall in the next tier. In
  the final tier behind another firewall, is the
  database. With this design, the data is most
  difficult to access.
• Thorough and regular penetration testing at the
  network and application levels to identify
  vulnerabilities and then resolve them.

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Structure of presentation
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Benefits and costs
Helps target services to vulnerable children and
families by capturing concerns which would not
otherwise be recorded.

• Pilots 100 concerns 30 alerts 10 referrals.

Delivers multi-agency information sharing
secure platform, flexible access rights, clear
accountability.
Pragmatic available now, quick and easy to
deploy (weeks), allows engagement with all
agencies, fits any local structure and priorities.
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Summary of costs
There will be other project/change management and
RMF costs. All costs should be pooled between
agencies and are discussed in much more detail in
the toolkit.
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Independent evaluation

• Easy to use
• Supported by practitioners across all areas and
  agencies
• Timely delivery in relation to government
  agendas
• Potential to make a real difference to children
  and their families
• Management challenges that need to be addressed
• More consistency about what type of concerns
  should be logged
• Risk of practitioners using the system to avoid
  seeking consent.

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Structure of presentation
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RYOGENS going forward
Mar 2006 and beyond..
May 2003
Mar 2004
Oct 2004
Aug 2002

• NP proposal (20k)
• Gov decision making.

• Phase 1 (2.9m)
• Design, Build, Pilot

• Phase 2 (300k)
• Commoditise
• Market/roll out.

Release of RYOGENS v.2.0

• Phase 3
• Early adopters implement
• Further development of products.
• Further piloting (details tbc)

Warwickshire County Council
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Next steps

• Contacts Denbigh Cowley/Melissa Insley/Laura
  Rutland
• Email programmeoffice_at_ryogens.org.uk
• Visit website/toolkit www.ryogens.org.uk
• Other options
• Join the reference group to keep in touch you
  will receive a monthly newsletter
• Become an Early Adopting Authority see over.

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Next steps for information sharing
Multi-Agency ISA Environment
Clever Layer
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Next steps becoming an Early Adopter

• In addition to the benefits of using RYOGENS
  being an Early Adopter
• should give you
• Significant influence over the development of the
  product through a seat on the RYOGENS Board for
  the next phase of the project and a role in the
  user group.
• Possibility of small element of matched funding.

If your Local Authority is interested in becoming
an Early Adopter contact the Programme Office,
the Programme Director or the Programme Chair.