School Readiness Multi-Agency Evidence & Intervention Orchestrator

Professionals spend time chasing records and reconciling assessments, families repeat the same story to multiple services, consent and information-sharing decisions are hard to evidence, and intervention can arrive after a child's needs have become more difficult or costly. Programme managers also struggle to show whether local projects actually moved children toward school-readiness outcomes rather than merely recording attendance or activity.

The economic buyer is more likely to be a council, combined authority, integrated partnership or commissioned programme than an individual practitioner. Existing family-hub apps and master-data platforms prove budget exists, but the product must complement rather than replace case-management and clinical systems: its narrow job is to turn cross-agency observations, consent, referrals and intervention outcomes into a shared school-readiness evidence trail.

This is not simply a demand for another parenting app. The repeated pain is the cross-organisation evidence chain: who observed what, whether consent permits sharing, what support was triggered, who owns the next action and whether the child's developmental trajectory changed. There are capable incumbents, including Sentinel in Liverpool, so the strongest product position is a lighter interoperable orchestration/outcomes layer or specialist module that can be adopted without replacing existing master-data infrastructure.

Run a 10-12 week pilot with one neighbourhood and a small multi-agency cohort. Import only the minimum permitted fields from existing systems; track consent, developmental concern, referral, intervention and follow-up outcome. Compare time spent chasing information, duplicated family storytelling, referral latency, unowned actions and completeness of outcome evidence against the current process. A buying signal is a council agreeing to fund expansion without requiring replacement of its core case-management platform.

Defensibility would come from a reusable school-readiness event/outcome model, pre-built connectors and consent/data-sharing workflows, cross-agency audit lineage and implementation templates that work across different council/health stacks. The product becomes stronger if it can deploy as a module beside Sentinel, Liquidlogic/Mosaic, NHS and early-years MIS rather than demanding rip-and-replace.

Reduce missed or duplicated early-years signals, shorten the time from concern to coordinated support, reduce the number of times families repeat information, and give funders/councils defensible evidence about which interventions improve school-readiness outcomes for disadvantaged children.

Proxy based — medium confidence.

Public G-Cloud benchmarks show family-hub/early-years software from about £5,500 per licence per year through £18,000-£65,000 per year, while Sentinel's broader data-integration platform is listed at £3,000-£12,000 per instance per month. Test a narrow pilot at £8,000-£15,000 for one neighbourhood/authority workflow, then £18,000-£45,000 annually per authority depending on connectors, users and support; do not position it as a full master-data replacement.

Evidence basis: Family Hubs Digital Platform (£28,000–£65,000 per year) is the closest verified adjacent anchor used here. Its buyer, duration and scope are not assumed to be identical; implementation is separated where the opportunity requires integration, assurance or managed delivery.

Ask one accountable NHS, council, employer, school-system or care-service budget owner to fund a paid test of School Readiness Multi-Agency Evidence & Intervention Orchestrator lasting 8–12 weeks, using an opening price of £8,000-£15,000 and covering two operational teams and 50 representative referrals, cases or employees. Paid scope: An interoperable school-readiness coordination layer that creates a shared, permission-aware timeline of developmental observations, referrals, interventions and outcomes across health, early-years, family-hub and community partners. Charge by service, organisation, enrolled person or managed cohort and compare the fee with current referral, case-coordination, absence-management and specialist-support effort. Measure time to action, safe escalation, case completion, avoidable hand-offs, staff hours and sustained return/retention. Continue only if time to appropriate action improves by at least 20%, no safety escalation is missed and the budget owner elects to continue. Stop or reprice if clinical or safeguarding quality falls, coordination effort rises or the buyer will not fund the next cohort.

Raise it if two pilot authorities confirm they cannot achieve the required cross-agency workflow cleanly with existing Sentinel/case-management tooling and will fund a specialist layer. Lower it below 70 if Liverpool's existing Early Years Intelligence Portal already covers consent, multi-agency action ownership and intervention-outcome lineage end to end, or if the National Data Library project supplies a reusable operational service rather than only shared data infrastructure.