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Address the Youth Matters Key Challenges
- Engage more young people in positive activities and empower them to shape the services they receive;
- Encourage more young people to volunteer and become involved in their communities;
- Provide better information, advice and guidance to young people to help them make informed choices about their lives;
- Provide better and more personalised intensive support for each young person who has serious problems or gets into trouble;
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Childrens Information Services |
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Keeping up to date with childcare vacancies is time consuming and costly.
An automated SMS system will save you hours calling Childcare Providers, dramatically reducing phone bills and administration costs.
Why ring hundreds of Childcare Providers when a lot of your calls are not productive? |
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Councils |
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Information broadcasting for emergencies, marketing public events, crime reduction, consultation, complaints and answering requests for information from the general public are all ideal uses.
Connect with the public and let them contact their councillor or departments in a way that is convenient to them.
Centralise Itext in your Contact Centre for direct citizen communication.
Youth Council elections can increase your poll count and get young people to vote.
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e-Government / Priority Outcome - G3 |
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Itext is a unique interactive 2 way SMS system ideal for communication with stakeholders, staff, the general public, young people, citizens panel, tenants etc. Modules for Call Centres, Marketing, Information / Text Alerts, Complaints, e- consultation.
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SureStart / Childrens Centre |
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Keeping in touch with all the families with young children in your community is a constant challenge. It’s quite literally a moving target. Many young parents don’t own a fixed residential phone line and can be a bit nomadic. Informing them about regular classes and late changes of arrangements can be time consuming, costly and a real logistics test. Itext proves ideal. The majority of parents own a mobile phone, it costs them nothing to receive your Text Message and you can contact them in groups immediately. |
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Community Safety |
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Itext is a unique interactive 2 way SMS system ideal for communication with stakeholders, staff, the general public, young people, citizens panel, tenants etc
Community communication initiatives have benefited from Itext by being able to make ready contact with their target audience in a way that suits them. Reaching young people and individuals in the community is a key strategy and Itext allows immediate and personal contact wherever they are. |
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New Deal / Regeneration |
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Community initiatives involving local people in wide ranging efforts to improve living and working conditions benefit with information broadcasts on jobs, events and regeneration as well as allowing the community to have their say.
Job opportunities that arise as part of the New Deal initiative can be texted instantly to those on the scheme, enabling people out of work to find employment much more efficiently.
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Volunteer Organisations |
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As a youth focused organisation you are committed to communicating with Young People to gain their help whilst assisting their personal and social development. Reaching Young People is no easy task and they need to be encouraged to participate and take advantage of all the services you offer.
Itext offers you an ideal way to communicate in (rightly or wrongly!) their preferred medium.
Better than that it’s 2 way – Young People can Text You to volunteer.
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Teenage Pregnancy Unit |
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Itext has proven to be extremely beneficial to organisations offering help and advice to Young People. They are much more likely to have a mobile phone than a fixed residential line and for any personal matter a discrete text message is far more appealing than a phone call.
Itext encourages people to seek advice in a non-intrusive way. Automatic Signposting enables vital information to be distributed immediately and anonymously …… 24/7.
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NHS Trusts |
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DNA’s means a lot of wasted time and money. Sexual health clinics have people that are in need of treatment and are not receiving it. Often, much time is spent trying to contact these people, but it is not always convenient or possible for them to respond.
Through text messaging you can establish immediate contact with people who need treatment. This is done in a discrete way and the user can read and reply to the message at a time that is convenient to them. Appointment reminders can also be sent in this way with confirmation that the message has been received.
As well as the obvious benefits in terms of cost, more people can gain access to the vital treatment they need.
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Youth Offending Team |
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| As a Youth Offending Team you are committed to communicating with Young People to prevent re-offending and assist their personal and social development. Reaching Young People is no easy task and they need to be encouraged to co-operpate and benefit from the services you offer. Itext offers you an ideal way to communicate in (rightly or wrongly!) their preferred medium.
Better than that it’s 2 way – Young People can Text You.
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Crime Reduction Partnerships |
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Co-ordinating information sharing across a multi agency partnership is made simple using SMS Text Messaging. Field workers and mobile teams all carry mobile phones and with "all points bulletins" or individual text messages you can contact them and share information immediatley.
Also ideal to achieve two way communictaion with young people and the community at large with obvious benefits for your partnership. |
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Drug and Alcohol Services |
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DAAT’S make contact with appointment reminders to reduce DNA’s, distribute awareness information and coordinate multi agency activities.
Often people feel alone and desperate and counselling by text with help and advice wherever they are can make a difference.
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Education |
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Without doubt, the easiest way to contact students is via mobile phone. Itext can be used to keep students informed of timetable changes or cancelled lectures, together with promotions and events.
Itext ensures that messages are received instantly wherever the user is and is ideal for attendance reminders. Notify students and parents on the Education Maintenance Allowance scheme if their attendance falls below the required level.
Itext’s automated reply function allows users to text keywords such as ‘FOOTBALL’ to receive a message back with details of the next practice or social event.
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Charities and Helplines |
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Itext has proved to be extremely beneficial to organisations operating helplines. Young people are much more likely to have a mobile phone than a fixed residential line and for any personal matter a discrete text message is far more appealing than a phone call.
The use of Itext encourages people to seek advice in a non-intrusive way.
The cost of tape recording calls for monitoring purposes is expensive. With Itext all call details are automatically logged.
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