What is the challenge your project is going to address and how does it connect to the theme of 'How can we improve across system boundaries?​

Ensuring Children have the best start in life, is the responsibility of all public services within Gwent, Early Years preventative Public Health and early support and intervention is delivered by 6+ partners, ie the Health Board and five Local Governments.  To enable an improvement and a data driven culture in leadership to support preventative and early identification of need in children aged 0-7, is essential to the effective and integrated approach in Gwent. This strategy will ensure effective shared understanding and decision-making. This is currently challenging to deliver, and is not responsive, leading to delays in delivering service provision based on proportionate universalism and population health management. Currently, sharing of data and ability to jointly undertake analysis in a structured approach provides real challenge due to over-reliance on manual, spreadsheet-driven approaches across the partnership, not structured and ineffective joint data sets.

What does your project aim to achieve?

This project aims to develop both a central store and dashboard for the effective analysis of joint data, but also increase the capacity for true data literacy through workshops across the partnership. Aiming to develop a shared language of improvement-based data driven tools, which will enable effective assessment when data has been provided. The short-term aim will provide intelligence to uncover unmet need, understand the distribution of needs and understand inefficiencies and unwarranted variation. Using a Person, Place and System approach interventions can be created across Gwent Region to improve the health and well-being of children from 0-7 years old

How will the project be delivered?

The project will involve the investment in expertise in the field of data management. Throughout this, the project team will require effective project management with 2 key themes. Theme 1, Data ingestion, storage and creation of dashboard, this will be a dependant on the expertise being invested. Theme 2 will require the development on a data and improvement learning workshop(s) with support form internal stakeholders to create the capacity to allow the wider system to become data literature, focusing on improvement methodology when data analytics is completed.  This will also allow using data created and share with SAIL, the national data bank, allowing interpretation of wider population level data for effective decision making and equitable service design.

How is your project going to share learning?

Within this, an evaluation of how the embracing data literacy is essential to share how wider regional boards may provide effective learning. In addition, sharing of key insights developed by data analysis using code repositories is essential to the scalability across Wales.