FAME – Improved Information Sharing and Joint Working –

Trevor Gordon 14/12/04

FAME’s Vision

““To establish a local, To establish a local, regional and national regional and national framework for multi-framework for multi-agency, multi-service agency, multi-service information sharing”information sharing”

Newcastle CC The disabled child

Newcastle UniversityLearning & Evaluation

Lewisham – ISA/ IRT

Bromley - Housing and Benefits

Shropshire – Integrated Mental Health Records

Bradford & West Yorkshire Child protection system

Wirral, Surrey & WokingSingle Assessment Process

Newcastle UniversityCiber & Liquid LogicGeneric Framework

8 FAME STRANDS

Generic Framework, IRT, Integrated Housing & Benefits

Generic Framework

IRT, Generic Framework

IRT, Child protection, Generic Framework

Generic Framework, PIVOP, Disabled Child, Integrated Mental Health,

Integrated Housing & Benefits

All FAME strands

Generic Framework, IRT, Disabled Child, Child Protection

Priority Outcomes & FAMESome direct linkages - Underpinning framework

1. Raising Standards in Schools

2. Improving Quality of Life

3. Promoting Healthier communities

4. Creating safer & stronger communities

5. Transforming our local environment

6. Meeting local transport needs more

effectively

7. Promoting Economic vitality of localities

FAME & Other National / Local PrioritiesSome direct linkages - Underpinning framework

• CPA• Best Value Performance Indicators• Public Service Agreements• Quality of Life indicators

FAME Benefits• Benefits from adoption & implementation of

FAME products for ISA, SAP, Child protection. Business Requirements, SOR, ISP, etc. Accelerated implementation, savings.

• Benefits from implementation of Multi-Agency environments e.g. ISA, SAP, etc

• Benefits from use and implementation of Generic Framework

• Benefits/savings from software and generic adapters developed with FAME

And we are not the only ones…Direct quote from DfES, ISA newsletter

“The FAME Generic Framework aims to accelerate the devolvement of, and reduce the risk of failure for, multi-agency initiatives in public sector care environments by establishing a common vocabulary for describing technology underpinning e-government services and by defining a generic approach to provision of services within a federated multi-agency environment. As such, it will represent the landscape in which the ISA Child Index will sit within"

 

And even more…• Extract from key note address to the LGA conference (17/11/04) on information

Sharing by Baroness Ashton, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs

“A key outcome emerging from the FAME project is the development of information sharing protocols.  My Department's guidance, which was launched to the public in 2003, deals with the complex, high level, legal aspects of data sharing.  I now believe that we need to build on this and that front line practitioners need a tool that will complement the Guidance, a tool that will take them through the operational process for identification of enabling legislation and application of the Data Protection Act in specific scenarios. FAME has produced some excellent products, which my Department will be looking very closely at.  The school of thought adopted by the FAME project, works on the premise that in the case of a majority of data sharing cases there is sufficient  enabling legislation available.”

• David Johnstone, Director of Social Services, Devon County Council, Chair of the ADSS Standards and Performance Committee

• “The FAME National Project provides Local Authorities with key tools for implementing multi‑agency working.   Every Agency is facing a real challenge in implementing the processes and the technology needed to co-ordinate their work with other agencies in helping the most vulnerable members of our society. This is particularly the case in view of upcoming legislation such as the Children Bill which places a specific duty of care on Local Authorities to manage multi-agency environments and with the importance of interfacing with NPfIT. By providing a framework which has been shown to be effective, FAME is showing the way to remove many of the uncertainties involved in addressing that challenge. The work to date by the FAME strands has shown that properly implemented multi-agency working can deliver tangible benefits to the practitioners, the agencies and the service users.”

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…but it’s not just about IT

> 90% > 90% People, Processes, Trust, People, Processes, Trust, Compulsion/Desire, Law & Compulsion/Desire, Law &

Practice, Cultures, Capacity Practice, Cultures, Capacity SustainabilitySustainability.

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Hub need to talk to other hubs: Federation

London Federation

Regional National Federation