We are pleased to announce that CHARMS has been selected, again, to help run the Adoption Register for England and Wales. DCSF has announced that, following contract negotiations, the intention is to enter into a contract with the British Association for Adoption and Fostering to operate the Adoption Register from 1 April 2009. As a result, CHL is entering into a new back to back agreement to provide CHARMS as the database engine behind the Register for the next three years, at least. This will mean that by 2012 CHARMS will have been the adoption software of choice for the Register for more than 10 years. Since the Register began using CHARMS in 2001 it has not suffered a single system failure. It was delivered on time and on budget, and continues to deliver every day, 365 days a year. CHARMS is now fully online and is one of the longest established, national online adoption and fostering systems in the world. CHARMS Online is used by many agencies from the Register itself to regional consortia and independent fostering agencies across the UK. Go to the Register to find out more.

15/04/2009

We are very pleased to announce that Fostering Solutions have implemented CHL's ground-breaking 5Outcomes system Using 5Outcomes, Fostering Solutions can now easily track each child's progress against each of the Every Child Matters Five Outcomes. For more information please contact Jim Moores at CHL on 0161 237 1872 or use the contact form provided on the contact us page.

07/04/2009

Another NMDS - SC success for CHL. Using ETC, CHL's dedicated Social Caretraining administration system, Wigan MBC have successfully uploaded their entire adult social care workforce records to NMDS - SC Online. After carefully mapping their data to the NMDS-SC requirement, over the last several weeks, Wigan MBC has now created the bulk upload files and uploaded the NMDS-SC Organisation and Employee dataset. Well done everyone at Wigan and CHL. Whether you are a user of ETC or not CHL can convert your staff data to the required format for the bulk upload files.

Using Skils for Care's bulk upload tool you can then meet the requirements of NMDS-SC in no time at all. For more information ring CHL on 0161 237 1872 and aks for Jim Moores.

18/03/2009

We are very pleased to announce that as at 7 March 2009 Rochdale MBC have successfully uploaded their entire Adults dataset to NMDS - SC Online. After considerable effort to get the data compliant with the NMDS-SC we are thrilled to have achieved complete data upload. Special mention must be made of Carol Glover and Ryan Stanisland of Rochdale MBC and Diane Hamilton of CHL who have worked tirelessly to keep Rochdale MBC in the vanguard of NMDS-SC compliance. Jim Moores, CHL's MD said : "What an achievement. Over the last couple of months in particular Rochdale MBC's staff development team and CHL's NMDS-SC experts have, bit by bit, mapped the entire set of Adults Services staff records to the NMDS-SC requirement. The end result, achieved on 7/3/2009, has been a complete data upload using the bulk upload tool. Excellent work."

07/03/2009

CHL is pleased to announce that Wigan MBC is to roll out ETC to all Departments of the Council. From 1/4/2009 all training administration will be managed using ETC and, for the first time, ever,staff will be able to view upcoming training courses through ETC Online. Line Managers will also soon have the opportunity to record personal Review and Development Plans directly into ETC through ETC Online. Social Care staff data is also being prepared so that, on the click of a button, ETC may generatethe NMDS-SC bulk upload files. The NMDS-SC gathers information about the social care sector. It has been designed to gather information about services and information about the social care workforce. For more information please go to NMDS-SC Online. For more information or for a free demonstration of ETC please ring our office on 0870 112 0421 or email info@chl-systems.co.uk.

26/02/2009

We are pleased to announce that Fostering Solutions have placed an order for CHL's unique FiveOutcomes system. No doubt you are giving some serious thought as to how you can measure achievements against the Every Child Matters, Five Outcomes.
CHL may be able to help you. We have launched a unique FiveOutcomes system which can link to any existing Children’s data and evidence exactly what achievements have been made..

FiveOutcomes then produces a chart showing “progression” based on the score applied to each achievement. CHL's FiveOutcomes system incorporates all of the Individual Tracker "Desired Outcomes" defined in the "National Framework Contract for Independent Fostering Agency placements"
FiveOutcomes stores a complete audit of the process so that the user could look back over the whole period that the young person is looked after.

So far reaction to the system has been incredible.

For more information contact CHL on 0870 112 0421 and ask for Jim Moores or email info@chl-systems.co.uk

The Every Child Matters green paper identified the five outcomes that are most important to children and young people:
Be healthy
Stay safe
Enjoy and achieve
Make a positive contribution
Achieve economic well-being
Every Child Matters:Change for Children is a new approach to the well-being of children and young people from birth to age 19. Download the CHL, Five Outcomes, information sheet

15/02/2009

How CHL can help you with your NMDS requirements; ETC - A comprehensive Enrolment, Training & Certification system

- Are you wrestling with your HR system to extract the National Minimum Data Set –Social Care (NMDS – SC©Skills for Care)?
- Do you have a clear timetable for production of the NMDS-SC bulk upload files?
- Is your staff data NMDS-SC compliant?
- Are you finding it easy getting full Organisation and Employee data from the independent sector?

If your answer to any of these questions is "No" then you may be interested in what CHL has been doing to help a number of Local Authorities to prepare for the upload of their NMDS-SC data files.

We are currently working with three such Authorities to help with:

- a complete data audit to establish where the gaps are;
- a data extraction exercise, to collate all staff records from the local HR system and import them into CHL's unique, NMDS-SC bulk upload creator called ETC;
- rationalisation of data to eliminate duplicate and old records;
- data mapping to ensure that all data complies with the standard lookup lists (job roles, qualifications, service types, leaving reasons and others);
- generation of the bulk upload files for transfer into NMDS-SC online.

“The NMDS-SC project has been simplified thanks to the input from CHL. The work that they have done to prepare ETC with our data for the bulk upload tool, means that we are on target to complete NMDS-SC - full Organisation and Employee data - during the next month. Without the support and expertise from CHL, we would have had to employ a full-time person to undertake the task".
Carol Glover, Social Care Learning & Development Service, Rochdale MBC - January 2009

At CHL we have more than a decade of hands-on experience helping local authorities to manage workforce development and provide key performance indicators in the form of SSDS001, DIS – and now, of course, NMDS-SC. What is the NMDS-SC?
The National Minimum Date Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) gathers information about the social care sector. It has been designed to gather information about services and information about the social care workforce. For more information goto Skills for Care.

At the heart of what we do is ETC, CHL's widely acclaimed training administration and workforce development system. With ETC we are confident that you can manage every aspect of staff development - and ETC can now deliver NMDS-SC, on the click of a button.

For more information, or to arrange a free demonstration of ETC at your workplace please contact CHL on 0870 112 0421 and ask for Jim Moores or email jim.moores@chl-systems.co.uk.

06/02/2009

Exciting news for all the team at CHL - we have our first site in Australia. Over the last twelve months we have been working closely with VOCAL (Victims of Crime Assistance League), NSW to get them up and running with CVRS (CHL's Victim Referral System). Originally developed for Stockport Victim Support, it is now helping victims of crime on both hemispheres. In the words of Taryn from VOCAL : "We have formed an International partnership with CHL, a UK company who designed our new victim support database. Now up & running, the system makes it much easier for us to track &identify systemic issues encountered by victims of crime. We are extremely grateful to Jim Moores &Tony France from CHL for their generous support & patience." To find out more about VOCAL visit their website at http://www.vocal.org.au/. If you would like to find out more about CVRS please ring CHL on +44 (0)870 112 0421. Regards Jim Moores (MD)

22/11/2008

CHL is pleased to announce that Child Action North West have signed up for CHARMS. Installation and training will take place in December 2008. For more information or to arrange a free demonstration of CHARMS please ring us on 0161 237 1872.

07/11/2008

CHL is pleased to announce that CHARMS Online now has more than 1,000 registered users. Developed for Adoption 22 - the ground breaking collaboration of all adoption agencies in the North West of England - CHARMS Online offers, secure, rapid access to children and carer records. No more Forms E and F in the post - users may logon to CHARMS Online and safely view records. The Adoption Register for England and Wales went live with CHARMS Online in April 2007, allowing adoption social workers from across the UK to submit details of children and families. Indpendent fostering agencies including Fostering Outcomes and Hillcrest Fostercare are also seeing the huge benefits of having timely, safe access to their carer and children records using CHARMS Online. For more information or to arrange a free demonstration please ring 0870 112 0421 and ask for Joyce.

07/11/2008