CURA - TASC Software

Safeguarding Children And Vulnerable Adults Software

Safeguarding our children and vulnerable adults is paramount. Securely logging, tracking and dealing with data is vital in an Educational or Caring environment to ensure the safety and welfare of our students and residents. There can be no issue of greater importance to parents, next of kin and carers; to nurseries, primaries, secondary schools, sports clubs, educational establishments, day care or residential homes than the safety of their children and adults; our loved ones. Safeguarding remains high on the Government and Ofsted’s agenda and will continue to do so.

Paper based systems, individual documents on segregated software programs, can cause communication failures, secure data lost and an extremely difficult way to track information. CURA provides you with a permission levelled, secure and easy to use contact database allowing for quick and simple logging of data, a referral system, links to external resources, evidence and reports for external bodies.

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“Safeguarding of sensitive data can be an issue when it needs to be shared across members of staff who need access to it, which is why we chose to try Cura. Cura has been great and solves our problem by allowing members of staff the amount of access they require to data, while restricting what does not need to be shared. The amount of support offered by the team has been outstanding through to installation to using the software. I would strongly recommend this software to anyone who takes safeguarding seriously

Hiten SudraIT Coordinator - Balsall Common Primary School

Police recorded over 23,000 sex offences against children aged under 18 years in England and Wales between April 2012 and March 2013

http://www.nspcc.org.uk/

In 2012/2013 NSPCC helpline advisors responded to nearly 51,000 contacts from adults concerned about a child. More than half of these were serious enough to warrant referral to local Police or Children’s Services for further investigation

http://www.nspcc.org.uk/

Neglect was a factor in 60% of the 139 serious case reviews (where a child died or was seriously injured) published between 2009 and 2011

http://www.nspcc.org.uk/

More than 16,000 young people are absent from school due to bullying

http://redballoonlearner.co.uk/includes/files/resources/261298927_red-balloon-natcen-research-report.pdf

There were 56,231 children in the UK on child protection registers or the subject of child protection plans on 31 March 2014 (or 31 July 2014 in Scotland). This is based on figures from each UK nation)

Child protection register and plan statistics for all UK nations for 2014.

4,500 young people talked to ChildLine about online bullying last year.

http://www.nspcc.org.uk/globalassets/documents/research-reports/childline-report_can-i-tell-you-something_wdf100354.pdf

Why CURA?

CURA provides secure access to contact data, allowing quick access to files and logging on potential issues for vulnerable children and adults.

Data can be logged easily by any member of staff within your Education Establishment or Care Facility including playground assistance, kitchen staff, cover staff, trainer, carer, medical assistant, coach. Tracking of data is based on levels of authority allowing the right members of staff to view, report on and refer data.

Evidence can be held for external bodies such as CAF, Social Services, Police, Governors and family members. CURA also holds key data for your Self Evaluation Process as defined by OFSTED in Education.

CURA is a system designed to record and manage all concerns relating to a child and or adult that have been identified by staff in a secure system where the thresholds for raising concerns are minimal.

The advantage of recording ‘concerns’ or ‘gut feelings’ at lower levels means a greater number of issues are recorded and reviewed in CURA. These actions accumulate into a very a detailed and accurate pupil chronology leaving less chance of anything being missed.

This lower level recording becomes critical when trying to establish the starting point should a serious child or adult protection situation develop.

It is the gathering and recording of this type of data that was one of the recommendations made following the serious case review into the tragic death of Daniel Pelka.

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Secure

CURA has been developed ensuring data protection and security is paramount. Two Factor Authentication for logging in, configurable specific user levels and encryption of data have been programmed into this very easy and simple user-friendly piece of software

Manageable

Hosted securely on a high level Amazon Web Server. Add contacts as-you-go or sync with your MIS database or .csv file. Clean simple and user friendly install fully supported by our team.

Intervention

Trust your gut instinct! Log it

Staff are able to select a person to record any ‘concerns’ or ‘gut feelings’ on CURA quickly and simply. Loss of weight or appetite, issue with appearance, physical marks, behaviour change, lack of attendance are examples. Questioning and noticing changes can’t be ignored.

These observations may be a one off and no further action is required, or they may be one in a series of ‘concerns’ where further investigation may be necessary. Recording issues at a much lower level develops a more rigorous approach to the safeguarding of pupils and adults.

All the recorded concerns would get highlighted to the appropriate member of staff to review the entries, this may be a business manager, pastoral manager or care manager. If clearly a safeguarding protection issue the entry would be directed straight to the appropriate designated safeguarding lead to take appropriate action in CURA alerts.

Safeguarding Children And Vulnerable Adults Software

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