This overview relates to Mosaic 20.1.5 and 21.2 onwards and is relevant to all Child Protection – Information Sharing (CP-IS) users.
CP-IS functionality
The CP-IS integration is available for you to fulfil the NHS requirements for health and social care staff to share information securely, to better protect society’s most vulnerable children. You can find more information on the NHS website.
General principles
You should share information for cases where a child is either on a child protection plan, or subject to one of the following:
A full care order section 31.
An interim care order section 38.
A voluntary care agreement section 20.
The integration ensures that when you enter one of these statuses against a child, the information passes to CP-IS. This is configurable by the local authority, and in turn is accessible where required on the NHS systems, within the in-scope care settings.
In return, once on CP-IS, Mosaic receives update messages when the relevant NHS system records contact with the child.
You can configure these updates locally to appear in Mosaic as a case note and alert, or a work step and next action. The details of this are set within the Configuration Tools. When received, it either:
Generates a case note and alert.
Completes a step and passes a next action to a specified worker or team.
Additional information
When the service notification is communicated with Mosaic, it contains the details of the service notification itself, along with the following information:
NHS healthcare worker or safeguarding lead.
NHS organisation.
Date and time of access to the CP-IS service.
In circumstances where the request is issued from a distributed system, for example the 111 service, then the following is appended:
Geographical or physical location of the patient, for example postcode.
Name and job profile of the nominated safeguarding lead in the same location as the patient.
If there are any problems found, the service notification process generates an alert.