Built in to minimise the stresses:
- Progress Checks are organised automatically for each child
- Managers need not worry and key person can organise their time
- Key persons are guided to make a decision if the time is right for the child to start the process and guided to talk to their senior if it isn’t
- Key-persons, parents and anyone else involved, are guided as they travel through the process; step by step
- The process is broken down into short achievable parts
- All takes place online so nothing is lost
- The meeting with the parent is organised in advance
- Each part is short (the provider’s side generally done at rest time)
- Should parents not have internet access, there are forms to download
- The literacy skills of staff are supported throughout
- The next steps are chosen from a list which shows what could be appropriate
- The ideas of how the parent can support the child come from within the software
- These ideas can be overwritten/changed
- The majority will not need checking by management
- Managers and key persons can check to see how the process is progressing
- The information from everyone all feeds into the final report
- The majority will not need checking by management – just some freehand on the providers photos and the notes from the meeting
The Progress Check is available on sparkESSENTIAL and sparkPRO
