"The requirement to establish children's trust arrangements, arising from the Children Act 2004, has provided the opportunity for Kent to strengthen already well developed partnership arrangements at county and local levels. The Kent Children's Trust (KCT) was established in September 2006 and local pathfinders were introduced in October 2006 with the aim of introducing Local Children's Service Partnerships across Kent from September 2008."
From 25 February 2008 the ClusterWeb web site will become Kent Trust Web (www.kenttrustweb.org.uk ) to illustrate that the work of this website is fully in line with plans to develop the trust and support multi-agency working across Kent.
Both the www.clusterweb.org.uk and the www.kenttrustweb.org.uk URLs will work to access all pages and documents in the site.
Please Note: Not everything will change immediately. We will slowly change over to the new address for older pages as we roll out the change across the site. The graphics on the site will appear very similar as we accommodate the name change.
Actions: If you publish your web address on your publications you will need to alter the web address in future reprints of materials. We will be producing new publicity materials for staff and customers shortly.
Please contact us if you want to understand more about this change. You can call us on 01622 221201 or e-mail us at communicationcfe@kent.gov.uk.
Mandy has written a very useful post on how to subscribe to our blogs using RSS feeds.
Her post raised the question of receiving e-mail notifications when blogs are updated.
As you may know, the only way you can "subscribe to" or be notified when new posts are made to a ClusterBlog is to have a registered ClusterBlog account and to sign up for notification. Currently, the only registered users on this site are the bloggers themselves.
We disabled ordinary user registration when we originally set up the blogs, as it was designed as a small pilot project for Kent users only and any new users would need to be checked and verified for their suitability to post and comment on our blogs without being moderated. Most bloggers on this site, I know, have the "anonymous comments" turned off to prevent a variety of unsuitable spam, and have any comments made to their blogs moderated before publishing them.
Another simple issue with user registration is that it requires a large amount of staff resource to verify all would-be users and then to approve their accounts. We already manage over 5000 ordinary ClusterWeb registered user accounts, which being in a different software would not have automatically linked into the blog user registration system. It's not something we could have managed effectively when we started, and so it's currently not available.
I'm hoping to review how the registration system on ClusterWeb as a whole (including web 2.0 applications like the blogs) works this year, and would value your opinions. In the meantime, subscribe to us using RSS! As Mandy has said, it's quite simple.
Also: we're trying to upgrade to the next version of Community Server soon. I'll keep you updated.