National Register for Unaccompanied Children NRUC

The National Register for Unaccompanied Children (NRUC), an innovative shared central and local government project, jointly funded by the Home Office, DfES and ODPM, which embodies the objectives outlined in the Government’s Green Paper ‘Every Child Matters’. This system, which is increasing viewed by the DfES as the mechanism for recording and sharing information on ‘children from abroad’, has now been rolled out for use by all UK local authorities that look after asylum seeking children. In addition to cross-boundary identification the National Register delivers case and financial recording functionality for an extremely vulnerable group of local authority ‘looked after children’. The system also reduces red tape by enabling the Home Office to produce their own management information reports without requiring individual local authorities to return complex financial and other statutory management information returns.

This system, like ShareCare:RYOGENS, is referenced on the DfES ISA website as being complementary to the DfES Information Sharing Index agenda and it is expected to be one of the databases incorporated into the national index. The multi-agency aspect of the database design is also be referenced in the forthcoming ODPM Frequent Movers Strategy report

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