Reviewing information

Once information has been entered into Cura by staff, somebody will need to review it to decide whether any action needs to be taken to protect children from harm and maintain their development. This is called reviewing information.

Accessing information

A summary of most pieces of information is available to all staff, but the specific details and the ability to take action as a result of the information are restricted via a user's clearance level. As long as your clearance level is not lower than the clearance level given to a piece of information, and you are not using the simplified view, you will be able to view and action information within Cura.

Information can be accessed and reviewed via either the students page or the home page.

Students

To access a piece of information via the students page, first click the green "Open" button on the name of a pupil.

Next, go to the "Chronology" tab and click the green Open" button next to the piece of information you wish to view.

Home page

On your home page click on either the Alerts or Reviews tab. You will see a list of pupils names (if you have any outstanding alerts or reviews).

Alerts

Click on a pupil's name to open the students file or below the students name you will see the list of incidents relating to that pupil. If the background colour of an incident is greyed out, then you do not have a high enough clearance level to access that information.

Reviews

The reviews tab will show you concerns that have been recorded, which have a severity level that indicates you are the person that should be reviewing the incident (although you still may not be able to review the concern if your clearance level is not high enough). As with the Alerts, click on a child's name to see the outstanding concerns and click on the concern to review it.

Reviewing information

Once you have accessed a piece of information about a pupil, you will be on a page similar to that used when recording information. However you will have two extra tabs at the top of the page; Actions and History.

You can edit any of the details that were originally entered such as the clearance or severity level, as well as adding new information such as comments.

History

The history tab will show you a complete log of all of the modifications that have been made to a concern; you can see who recorded it, who edited the concern and when, and who reviewed it.

Actions

You can use the actions tab to decide what you are going to do about recorded concern. If you believe the pupil is being abused, then you can use the drop down box to the right to classify the type of abuse e.g. female genital mutilation.

You also need to select one of the three actions. If you click undecided then you will still be expected to review the concern at a later time, unless you change the severity of the incident so that different member of staff can review it instead.

If you select "The following actions are to be taken" then a calendar view will appear at the bottom of the window. Here you should choose a date and then right-click on the calendar to schedule an action that you will perform in order to deal with the concerns. This scheduled action will then appear on your home page under the "Planned actions" tab.