1. 4 NATIONS WORK ON DATA STANDARDS Bill McCluggage Director of eGovernment Office of the First Minister & Deputy First Minister Northern Ireland

3. Health & Personal Social Services

5. Strategic Framework for Children, Young People & Families STEERING GROUP Health Trusts Northern Ireland Office PSNI OFMDFM MENCAP NSPCC NCH RNID Barnardo’s Disability Action Chair DHSSPS

6. ‘7.27 Research and experience have shown repeatedly that keeping children safe from harm requires professionals and others to share information about a child’s health and development and exposure to possible harm….’ Bichard Enquiry

7. ‘One of the aims of eCare is to develop systems and procedures that will ensure that as many barriers to information-sharing as possible are removed. eCare is much more than an IT solution. It is about ensuring that organisation and cultural change also occurs to enable practitioners to feel comfortable in using the tools and in sharing information across agencies.’ ‘In order to identify and address children's holistic needs, information sharing within and across agencies is vital.’

8. Population & ID Card Registers Citizen Information Project National Identity Register

9. 47,823 people moved to Scotland from the rest of the UK (7,714 were between 0-15 years old) 47,766 people moved from Scotland to somewhere else in the UK (7,411 were 0-15 years old) Inter-Regional Migration Flows General Register Office for Scotland

11. The premise of the 4 Nations Group is that if we are to create a generic person message that will allow systems to match/identify citizens so that there can be a legal and consent-based information flow then we have to establish a common basis for communication. A standards-based approach

13. What data is essential to data sharing? Name Address Gender Date of Birth/Death Place of birth Unique reference number

14. Benefits Customer satisfaction Inter-operability Efficiency Improved effectiveness

15. How far have we got? Initial core data messaging standards produced Consultation with other organisations required Consultation with the public Pilot standards

16. “… he who will not apply new remedies must accept new evils. For time is the greatest innovator.” Francis Bacon