Month: April 2013

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Empowering-Communities Awarded ISO9001 Accreditation

We’re delighted to announce that Empowering-Communities has been awarded the ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management Standard to “Develop and provide systems to facilitate multi agency information sharing”. ISO 9001 certification is…

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Data Protection FAQs

Q. In relation to E-CINS is all communication in transit encrypted? A. Yes. All of the communication with E-CINS is encrypted Q. Will the data about our organisation or our…

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Providing Support Networks for Problem Gamblers and their Families

There are an estimated 300,000 problem gamblers in the UK and for every problem gambler there are on average 10 other people directly affected by their addiction. By providing effective…

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Count Me Out Alcohol and Gambling Self Exclusion Programmes

The Count Me Out systems of Alcohol and Gambling Self Exclusion have an important role to play in helping to prevent the break-up of the family unit and people turning…

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Empowering-Communities to meet with RGSB on Self Exclusion

Empowering-Communities has been invited by the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board (RGSB) to join a Self-Exclusion Working Group that will be looking at the key issues around implementing an effective self-exclusion…

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Norwich Retail Crime Reduction Partnership Relaunch

A crime reduction partnership in Norwich that enables retailers to report criminal activity and thefts from their shops and premises will be re-launched next month. The ALERT-SIRCS scheme, which is…

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ICO Visit and a Quick Guide to Cloud Computing

Following a recent meeting the E-CINS Team had with strategic leads at the Information Commissioners’ Office (ICO) in Wilmslow we thought it would be helpful to run a feature on…

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Creating an Electronic Family Assessment

The process of creating an assessment is quick and simple. When an assessment is started it automatically ‘pulls through’ the family members you have previously identified. This speeds up the…

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Focus on: Empowering-Communities’ Heather Ette spoke to 180° Norfolk IOM’s Police Sgt Eddie Hammond

HE: At what point in your IOM programme did you start to use E-CINS, was your IOM programme already well established? EH: E-CINS had been established around 9 months prior…

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New Electronic Family Assessment Tool Helps Analyse Results

With the news that the Government has commissioned a consortium of research bodies to keep track of its Troubled Families Programme, Councils are now tasked with compiling progress reports and…