CANSVision is a CANS assessment tool for children's homes, fostering agencies and local authorities, built by people who know the work from the inside.
Your staff know these children well. They know who is settling, who is struggling, and what has changed since they moved in.
But that knowledge lives in case notes, handovers and conversations. When a manager asks whether a home is working, a commissioner asks whether it's meeting the child's needs, or an inspector asks how you know a child is doing better than six months ago, the answer takes hours to pull together.
The knowledge is there. What's missing is a shared, consistent way to record it and show change over time.
The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths assessment is used around the world in child welfare, mental health and youth justice. Every item is rated on the same four-point scale, and every rating means an action.
Evidence progress in a form commissioners and inspectors recognise, without adding to your staff's recording.
Show what placement stability looks like across your carers, before you're asked.
A consistent view of need across the children you care for and the placements you commission.
Not planned, not in procurement. Built, working, and going into pilot this November.
Domains and items held as data rather than hard-coded, so the tool can follow the instrument as it changes.
Infrastructure your IT team already understands. Staff sign in with the accounts they already have.
Simple bands by number of users, no charge per child. A single home isn't priced like a county council.
Every rater's CANS certification is recorded and checked before an assessment can be finalised.
Designed with real experience of children's social care, so it fits how homes, agencies and councils actually work.
CANSVision is built on the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment, developed by the Praed Foundation, and is used with the Foundation's permission.
If you'd like to see it, ask a question, or talk about whether it fits your service, get in touch directly.
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