Foster carers write daily logs at home, and some now use consumer AI to help. Social workers do the same at their desks. The authority is the data controller either way, so the liability sits with you whether or not anyone has written it down.
Four weeks. We find out how AI is really being used across your children’s services, what your policies and your DPIA actually cover, and where that leaves you at inspection.
Across children’s services, including what carers are doing on their own devices.
Taken limb by limb, saying which parts you meet and which you do not.
For AI-assisted recording, with a written addendum covering what it does not reach.
Covering social workers and foster carers.
One page, written to be handed out.
For your leadership team or corporate parenting board.
What we need from you: a named contact, your existing documents, half an hour each with six to eight people, and your agreement that we can ask foster carers directly.
Recording policy, DPIA, AI contracts, foster carer handbook.
Social workers, a team manager, your DPO, and foster carers directly.
With a short mid-point call, so nothing in the findings is a surprise.
Delivered and talked through with whoever needs to hear it.
Fixed prices, excluding VAT, invoiced on delivery. If the work runs longer than we planned, that is our problem and not your budget’s.
The review above, delivered as a pack: the inventory, your position against Ofsted’s guidance, the DPIA addendum, the policy, the carer sheet and the leadership summary.
Half a day each for social workers and team managers, on what AI can be trusted with in case recording. Ninety minutes online in the evening for foster carers, run by a foster carer. Both tailored to what your review found.
Impending Tech builds AI systems for organisations that cannot put their data in a public cloud. Most of the work is the assurance around those systems rather than the models themselves: data protection impact assessments, audit trails that hold up when somebody checks them, and the evidence an inspector will actually accept. The people who sell you this are the people who do it.
Tim has taken other organisations through their ISO certification and led AI implementation programmes, so he has spent time on the side being assessed rather than only the side doing the assessing. He knows which evidence holds when somebody actually asks for it.
Geoff builds the systems and works in identity. He wrote and delivered a course for academic staff on using AI safely and well, which is the same problem this review looks at, one rung further up the education system.
Geoff is a foster carer. That is why this review covers what happens in carers’ homes and not only what happens in your offices, and why he does those interviews himself.
For the past year the work has been almost entirely in children’s social care. The standards, timescales and retention periods we work to are cited to the regulations they come from.
Tell us what you already know about AI use across your service, and we will tell you whether a review would find anything you do not have already.