Children's Recording System (CRS)

The CRS guidance documents are embedded throughout the site. This page lists all these documents in one place.

What should a recording system be?

recording systems for child and family social work should meet the critical need to maintain a systemic and family narrative, which describes all the events associated with the interaction between a social worker, other professionals and the child and their family;
ICT systems for child and family social work should be able to adapt with relative ease to changes in local child protection system needs, operational structures and data performance requirements; and
the analysis of requirements for ICT-based systems for child and family social work should primarily be based on a human-centred analysis of what is required by frontline workers; any clashes between the functional requirements that have been identified by this process and those associated with management information reporting should normally be resolved in terms of the former.

Munro (2012:111)

PROCESS	CRS DOCUMENT LINK	PROCEDURES LINK
e.g. Creating a Chronology