Service Finder Training

You will find the following support materials available on this page:

  • An Interactive Service Finder Tool Guide
  • Walkthrough Videos
  • A Known Issues Log
  • Error Reporting & Feedback Forms

Interactive Guide

There is an interactive Service Finder Tool Guide below. This provides an overview of all of the different functions available in Service Finder. If you prefer to view this in a separate window, please click here.

The project team can be contacted on servicefinder@can100.org if you have any questions.

Service Finder Walkthrough Videos

Below are a range of brief training videos covering all aspects of using the Service Finder tool. These are grouped together as one playlist on our YouTube channel, or you can click the specific section you are interested in below.

What does the Service Finder homepage look like?

How do I use the side menu to filter?
What do the different filters do?
How do I search using a postcode?

What information is available about services?
How can I save and share services with others?
How can I suggest new services, organisations or venues to be added to the Service Finder?

Current Development Areas

We will list known development areas below. Please review these before submitting an error report.

  • 05/03/2023 – Error on sharing favourite labels (RESOLVED 06/03/2023)
  • 05/03/2023 – Redirected URL hyperilinks not working (RESOLVED 06/03/2023)

Error Reporting & Feedback

To provide information on a service to be added to the shared data set, please click here.

To provide information on a venue to be added to the shared data set, please click here.

To report an error in data or when using the Service Finder tool, please click here.

To provide general feedback on your experience of using the Service Finder, including summaries of positive interventions for members of the public, please click here.

Thank you for your support of this NHS Dorset funded project.

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About the ACSS project

Find out more about the 'Access to Community Support & Services' project.

Read: Community Wellbeing across Dorset

How can we register our services?

A overview of the simple options for you to register services or sessions as part of the project.

Read: Community Wellbeing across Dorset

How is the data handled?

A summary of the approach to handling data and the detailed supporting documents.