Each type of investigation can be configured using the Cúram Administration Application to have sharing either enabled or disabled. If sharing is enabled, a multidisciplinary team can be assigned to the investigation and upon creation of an investigation case a collaborative investigation case is also created to allow the non-agency members of the team to collaborate in the investigation of the allegations associated with the investigation. Two types of multidisciplinary team may be associated with a particular type of investigation:
The multidisciplinary team may be a predefined in the Cúram Administration Application. The investigation user can add a team to the case, however the user is unable to make any modifications to the make up of the team, i.e. new members cannot be added to the team or existing members may not be removed from the team by the user of the investigation. The team make up may be changed by an administrator and any updates to the team will automatically be available to any investigation to which the team has been assigned. A history of the changes made to the team is available within the investigation. In addition, a history of the teams assigned to the investigation is also available if more than one team has been used to deal with the investigation.
A multidisciplinary team may be created by the user of the investigation specifically to meet the needs of the particular case. The user can add both agency workers and non-agency workers to the multidisciplinary team and can select the team member to fulfill the lead role. A history of the make up of the team is retained, i.e. when members have been added and removed from the team.
Once assigned to a multidisciplinary team, a non-agency team member can access any collaborative investigation cases to which the team have been assigned via the MDT Portal. However, there are several factors that determine the actual information within the collaborative investigation that the non-agency team member can view. Principle among these factors is sharing. Sharing may be applied to notes and attachments and is based on the governance model configured using the Cúram Administration Application (for more information see Multidisciplinary Teams section).
If sharing has been enabled, in addition to the creation of a collaborative investigation case, a Collaboration navigation tab is added to the investigation case navigation bar. The Collaboration tab contains the following two pages;
The content and functionality of this page depends upon the type of team that can be added to the investigation, i.e. predefined or ad hoc. Please see above for a description of the available functionality.
A list of discussions that have been raised concerning the investigation.
The Collaboration tab, and thus the pages contained within, are not displayed in the investigation case if sharing is not enabled.