Need to know
Allergies, contact restrictions, missing risk, triggers, what helps, routines and diet, at the top of every file.
Precinct Care
Children's home recording software
Recording software for children's homes in England, built around the Children's Homes Regulations 2015 and the Quality Standards, so the evidence Ofsted asks for is kept as you go.
Most of what an inspector reads is written on shift, often late at night, by staff who would rather be with the young people. Precinct Care makes that recording quick, and turns it into the records a registered manager and Responsible Individual need without anyone typing it twice.
The rules are set from the type of service and the country. For a children's home in England, forms, reminders and reports follow the 2015 Regulations: Reg 40 notifications, Reg 44 monthly visits, the Reg 45 review every six months and the regulation 35 steps after restraint.
Where we are: Precinct Care is in final development, shaped with registered managers, Responsible Individuals and Reg 44 visitors. We are booking demonstrations now and taking a small number of pilot homes. The snippets on this page are from the working system, filled with made-up people and records.
What's in each young person's file
Contacts
Social worker, IRO, family, school, GP and advocate, held once and kept up to date across every file.
Daily logs
Mood, school, meals, family contact and what happened, signed with the worker's face.
Keywork
Sessions recorded with what was talked about, and the young person's own words.
Chronology
Built automatically from significant entries across the file. Nobody types it twice.
Health and medication
Health needs, appointments and the medicine record in one place.
Plans
Placement plan, risk assessment, behaviour support and missing-from-care plans, with every version kept.
Education
School, designated teacher, attendance and personal education plan actions.
Photos and memory book
Photos from logs and activities, gathered into a memory book the young person can keep.
The home at a glance
The home page shows young people placed, staff on shift and clocked in, tasks open and home checks due. Each young person shows today's log status, so a manager can see before handover whose log has not been started.
The week's rota sits underneath, and the to-do list keeps daily logs, medication rounds and checks in time order.
Records that stand up at inspection
Every entry is signed, dated and kept. Changing an entry creates a new version and keeps the first one, with the reason. Every sign-in, record opened and change is in the audit trail, and nothing can be deleted, including by managers.
When Ofsted arrive, you can give the inspector read-only access to the records since the last inspection, with nothing to download.
Regulations Precinct Care follows for children's homes in England
- Reg 40: notifications to Ofsted without delay, tracked on the home page.
- Reg 44: the independent person's monthly visit, report and the manager's responses. See Reg 44 visits.
- Reg 45: the quality of care review every six months, with a reminder to send the report to Ofsted within 28 days.
- Reg 35: restraint recorded within 24 hours, signed by the manager within 48 hours, and the young person spoken to within 5 days. See restraint and incidents.
- Missing from care: a profile ready in advance, and the return home interview tracked. See missing from care.
Questions we're asked
Does Precinct Care replace paper logs and shared drives?
Yes. Daily logs, keywork, incidents, plans, home checks and staff records all live in one system, with photos and documents attached to the right file.
Can young people see what is written about them?
Yes, with help. A young person can ask to read their file with their keyworker, and anything they want to say goes in their file in their own words.
Can a worker see every young person in the company?
No. A care worker sees the young people in the homes they work at. Managers see their homes, and an area manager sees their area. Staff HR records and the audit trail are hidden from care workers.
See Precinct Care for yourself
Book a 30-minute demonstration. We'll show you the screens your staff, managers and inspectors would use.
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