Current Challenges @ work
Connecting communities to protect children.
FireAnt's aim is to dramatically cut red tape and provide faster, more accurate information-sharing to protect children at risk and make them safer.
Problem: As per the Australian Federal Government report (2014-2015): Recurrent expenditure on child protection and out-of-home care was nearly $3.4 billion nationally. Case managers responsible for child protection services in each state use multiple channels of communication to collaborate with their interstate counterparts, investigations vary from 28 days to 12 months.
According to National Framework for protecting Australia’s children report, Incidents of child abuse and neglect in Australia have more than doubled over the past decade.
Billions of dollars have been spent on a continuous cycle of inquiries and reviews into child protection systems in nearly every jurisdiction. A case study carried out by UN in 2015, sites child abuse economic costs to be 4-7% of global GDP.
Target: Sharing of information nationally to ensure child safety. State & National government agencies.
Solution: Innovative technology that allows child protection authorities to identify when a child at risk, or an adult of interest, is known to child protection authorities in other jurisdictions.
FireAnt aim to minimise the response time for the case managers to ensure child safety and achieve zero tragedies caused due to resources constraints at Child Protection Services.
The average interaction worker spends an estimated 28 percent of the workweek managing e-mail and nearly 20 percent, looking for internal information or tracking down colleagues who can help with specific tasks. With a searchable record of knowledge can reduce by 35 percent the time employees spend searching.
reference; www.dss.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/child_protection_framework.pdf
FireAnt's aim is to dramatically cut red tape and provide faster, more accurate information-sharing to protect children at risk and make them safer.
Problem: As per the Australian Federal Government report (2014-2015): Recurrent expenditure on child protection and out-of-home care was nearly $3.4 billion nationally. Case managers responsible for child protection services in each state use multiple channels of communication to collaborate with their interstate counterparts, investigations vary from 28 days to 12 months.
According to National Framework for protecting Australia’s children report, Incidents of child abuse and neglect in Australia have more than doubled over the past decade.
Billions of dollars have been spent on a continuous cycle of inquiries and reviews into child protection systems in nearly every jurisdiction. A case study carried out by UN in 2015, sites child abuse economic costs to be 4-7% of global GDP.
Target: Sharing of information nationally to ensure child safety. State & National government agencies.
Solution: Innovative technology that allows child protection authorities to identify when a child at risk, or an adult of interest, is known to child protection authorities in other jurisdictions.
FireAnt aim to minimise the response time for the case managers to ensure child safety and achieve zero tragedies caused due to resources constraints at Child Protection Services.
The average interaction worker spends an estimated 28 percent of the workweek managing e-mail and nearly 20 percent, looking for internal information or tracking down colleagues who can help with specific tasks. With a searchable record of knowledge can reduce by 35 percent the time employees spend searching.
reference; www.dss.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/child_protection_framework.pdf