CHARMS Social Care Community Newsroom

Great news : Rik and Jim spent the week of 12 December 2012 atTeam Fostering in Sheffield and North Shields training staff in CHARMS. It was a very enjoyable week and Team Fostering, with CHL's help, are getting the carer and childrens' records up-to-date ready for go live in January. Thank you to all the staff at Team Fostering for their enthusiasm and energy.

We are delighted to announce that Sunbeam Fostering, based in Middlesex, have chosen CHARMS Online to assist them with the management of their referrals, enquiries and placements. Sunbeam Fostering will soon be able to enjoy thebenefit of a bespoke system, developed over several years, that will streamline their administration processes and facilitate compliance with statutory requirements. We have completedbusiness analysis and we are very much looking forward to working with the staff at Sunbeam Fostering.

Lorna Sturgess, CHL's Business Manager, is pleased to annouce that Tree House Care have signed up for CHARMS. Tree House Care have recognised that as a growing foster care agency it is important to have the best, online computer system to manage children and carer records and to deliver the Ofsted dataset. We at CHL would like to thank Tree House for choosing CHARMS.

We are delighted that St Cuthberts have decided that CHARMS is the best system for their fostering service. After careful deliberation it was decided that CHARMS offered the best, cost-effective solution to the daily case file management needs of the growing fostering service. We, at CHL, would like to offer our thanks and will get things up and running early in the new year.

CHL would like to thank the team at Clifford House Fostering for deciding that CHARMS is the system for them. After a a great meeting at the Clifford House offices in Herefordshire the decision was quickly made to go with CHARMS. Implementation is being organised for January 2012 and we are really looking forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship.

The British Association for Adoption & Fostering (BAAF)has been rated as ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted in its recent inspection. The agency will be included on Ofsted’s outstanding provider’s list. BAAF were actually rated ‘outstanding’ in every area that was assessed, recognising the excellence of all services provided by the charity.

We are delighted to announce that Kasper Fostering, based in Whitstable, Kent, have chosen CHARMS Online to assist them with the management of their referrals, enquiries and placements. Kasper Fostering will soon be able to enjoy thebenefit of a bespoke system, developed over several years, that will streamline their administration processes and facilitate compliance with statutory requirements. As the project gets underway with the imminenet business analysis day, we are very much looking forward to working with the staff at Kasper Fostering.

Five Rivers Child Care have chosen to pilot CHARMS in their South West Region to manage their fostering and residential care services. Five Rivers is a leading independent, Social Enterprise that works with
Looked-After Children who are in need of specialist care throughout England and
Ireland. CHARMS is the most widely used fostering systemin the UK For more information call 0161 237 1872

Kaleidoscope were so impressed they decided to go with CHARMS. Kaleidoscope is an Independent Fostering Provider offering a range of services centered on high-quality family care within fostering families. For more information about CHARMS just call 0161 237 1872.

Kentbased agencySafehouses are to use CHARMS to manage theadministration of theircarer recruitment and child referral procedures. After a very enjoyable demo and a very productive business analysis it was agreed to go live in July 2011. The date is set and everyone is looking forward to Diane and Ged running the training. If you would like information about CHARMS, please call CHL on 0161 237 1872 or email us at info@chl-systems.co.uk