CHARMS Social Care Community Newsroom

August is turning out to be a good month with Amicus Foster Care making the decision to join the CHARMS family. After a couple of enjoyable meetings with the team in Bristol it was agreed that CHARMS and Amicus Foster Care were meant for each other. Welcome on board. JM

Fantastic news, Five Fostering have decided that CHARMS is the best system for their new and dynamic fostering agency. We had a great session with the team and we are looking forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship. JM

Fantastic news - OSP have signed up for CHARMS to help manage recruitment for one of their important, national customers. This is great news for Social Care Network Solutions and it recognises that CHARMS can help organisations across sectors to manage recruitment. Thank you OSP.

Excellent news, Connect Fostering, a new fostering agency have decided that CHARMS is the way forward. Thank you from everyone at Social Care Network. JM

We are pleased to support Fosterline. Fosterline is funded by the Department for Education and delivered by FosterTalk. Fosterline provides confidential, impartial, advice information and signposting on the broad range of issues of concern to foster carers and those interested in fostering, in order to support them in their role, aid retention and encourage recruitment of foster carers. Fosterline website is packed full of information on a broad range of fostering related topics. We hope you will find what you are looking for within this website, however you can make your fostering related enquiry by using our Contact Form or joining the debates and discussion on Fosterline Forums.

Great news, Attachments Fostering, based in Snodland, Kent have placed an Order for CHARMS. After a very enjoyable meeting and informal demo in the Snodland office in April 2013 Dot King - the founder of Attachments Fostering - rang Jim Moores, our MD, personally to say she would like to proceed with CHARMS. We are really pleased that Dot and the team have chosen CHARMS - the market leading fostering, adoption and residential system in the UK.

We are very pleased indeed that Young Foundations Fostering have decided to place an order for CHARMS. After very careful consideration of the systems available Young Foundations chose CHARMS in recognition of its position as market leader in the UK and of the wealth of functions which meet all of the operational needs of a busy fostering and residential agency. We would like to thank the team at Young Foundations for choosing CHARMS and we look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship.

We are very pleased to announce that Ansacare Fostering, a growing, independent fostering agency based in the heart of Croydon, have made the decision to go with CHARMS.
CHARMS has been chosen by the team at Ansacare as they recognised that as the market leader, with a core focus on data security and protection, it was the only real choice for an agency which wants to use the best tools available.

We are very pleased to announce that Safehouse North, an established fosterning agency based in Denshaw, Oldham in the North West of England, have made the decision to implement CHARMS. The Contract will soon be signed and our hghly refined implementation process will see the Business Analysis done, data import complete, and ALL staff trained in line with their individual needs. Our Managing Director, Jim Moores, had a thoroughly enjoyable demo session, on 12th April,with Louise, Tony and Pam and only a couple of weeks later the decision was made to go with CHARMS. We are really looking forward to welcoming all of the Safehouses North Team to CHARMS.

Version 10.06.02 of CHARMS is now rolled out across our family of users and the reaction has been incredible. The new Dashboard has proved to be very popular indeed and it has elicited such comments as : “..I'm incredibly impressed with the Dyslexia theme on the dashboard, I've never seen this before on any site and I think it's great…” and "... I was about to create my own data audit reports but the Health Check has saved me the effort." The enhanced, secure HR system is also a feature which will save our customers the effort of maintaining separate systems to manage staff records and many are implementing it. And everyone loves the full-featured carer training module which allows users to create Course dates; book carers on quickly and easily; manage non-attendance and cancellations; print delgates lists and cerificates and more.