The TCOM England Data Community.
Through ethical collaboration, the assessment data recorded by care professionals every day will revolutionise our society’s understanding of what works, when, where for which children.
Harnessing the value of data, sharing what we learn, working together to improve lives faster.
The TCOM approach can bring immediate, everyday benefits to practitioners and service providers and of course those in our care, helping us better understand, communicate and respond to individual and family needs. However, as important are the longer-term benefits of pooling our non-identifiable data via the TCOM England ‘data community’ - where the insights we gain every day will feed into our wider understanding of what works, when and where for which children.
Thanks to partnerships with software providers, software will allow management of TCOM communimetrics, monitoring of outcomes at individual and system level, support for clinical decisions and evaluation of the effectiveness of services.
At the same time, non-identifiable data will be able to be fed back to local authorities and providers for benchmarking, and to benefit sector and academic research.
“A key principle of a TCOM England data community is that all data analysed and shared to will be non-identifiable – both in terms of individual cases, and in terms of specific local authorities and providers.It is a neutral data community that works for everyone and against no-one – creating that important shared vision and supporting effective partnership working in the delivery of services and improvement of outcomes.”
— Dr Mark Kerr, The Centre for Outcomes of Care