The Leicestershire Early Years and Childcare Service cheerfully admits that its success in the Sure Start Partners in Excellence awards wasn't for anything particularly dramatic.
So pilot programme manager Jackie Cockcroft is all the more delighted that the service's Children's Information Service (CIS) team has been honoured for developing an effective range of information management systems. 'It wasn't for anything fancy or exciting, it was for solid knowledge and good practice going on day in, day out, developed over five years,' she says.
The data collection processes follow a simple rule: information should never be collected or passed on for its own sake, it should lead to increased understanding and added value. 'Raw data serves little purpose,'
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