Chicago launches multi-agency data system for early childhood insights 

The City of Chicago has partnered with early childcare providers and Northern Illinois University (NIU) to launch an integrated system that allows multiple agencies to share data.

From this summer, the Chicago Early Childhood Integrated Data System (CECIDS) will bring together data from across systems and programmes in near real-time, allowing for citywide and neighbourhood-level analyses. Programme-specific dashboards will also be created to serve families, programme administrators, funders and policymakers.

“CECIDS will allow us to have a 360 view of Chicago children and their families to pair resources to needs, and build a citywide strategy where we all use data to continuously imp...