The Digital PawPrint Compliance Score is designed to help you see which areas of your breeding records may need attention.
It brings together information from different parts of your Digital PawPrint account and highlights where records are complete and where something may still be missing or require updating.
The score is intended to be a management tool.
It helps you identify gaps in your records before they become difficult to manage and encourages you to maintain your Digital PawPrint as part of your normal routine.
What does the Compliance Score look at?
Digital PawPrint checks a number of areas within your account.
These can include things such as:
- Your user profile
- Your breeding business information
- Dog Card information
- Health records
- Policies and SOPs
- Routine records and My Tasks
If information is missing, Digital PawPrint can identify the relevant area and show you that it requires attention.
For example, a Dog Card may be incomplete because important identification information has not yet been added.
A health record may be incomplete because a dog has no vaccination, worming, flea, weight or other relevant records recorded.
Your policies or routine records may also require attention.
The purpose of the score is to bring these different areas together so that you do not have to manually check every part of the system.
The Compliance Score is not a legal compliance certificate
It is important to understand what the Compliance Score does not mean.
A high score does not confirm that your breeding establishment complies with every condition of your licence.
Similarly, a lower score does not automatically mean that you are breaking a licence condition.
Digital PawPrint can only assess the information and records held within the system.
Your licensing authority remains responsible for determining whether your establishment complies with the legislation and the conditions attached to your individual licence.
Think of the Compliance Score as an early warning and record keeping tool, rather than a pass or fail assessment.
Why might my score change?
Your score can change as information within Digital PawPrint changes.
For example, your score may improve when you:
- Complete missing information on a Dog Card
- Add relevant health records
- Complete or upload a policy
- Record routine activities through My Tasks
- Complete missing business information
The score may also identify an area that needs attention as time passes.
This is important because good record keeping is not something that is completed once.
Digital PawPrint is designed to be updated as your dogs, litters and breeding establishment change.
Look at the issues, not just the score
The most useful part of the Compliance Score is not necessarily the overall number.
It is the information underneath it.
Digital PawPrint can identify the areas that are contributing to an incomplete score, allowing you to see where to concentrate your attention.
For example, you may discover that several Dog Cards are missing microchip information, or that routine records have not recently been updated.
Rather than trying to improve the score simply for the sake of achieving a higher number, use the information to improve the quality of the records themselves.
How My Tasks affects the Compliance Score
Your routine records are an important part of Digital PawPrint.
Policies and SOPs describe how your breeding establishment operates.
My Tasks helps you create an ongoing record of the activities that support those procedures.
Where routine records are expected but have not been updated, this may be highlighted within the Compliance Score.
This helps prevent important areas of your record keeping from being forgotten.
The aim is not simply to tick tasks to increase your score.
Your task records should accurately reflect what has actually happened within your establishment.
How Dog Cards affect the Compliance Score
Dog Cards form an important part of your Digital PawPrint records.
If a Dog Card is missing important information, this can be highlighted within the Compliance Score.
Depending on the dog and its circumstances, this may include information relating to:
- Identification
- Registration
- Microchip details
- Breeding information
- Health records
Completing your Dog Cards gives Digital PawPrint a much clearer picture of the dogs within your breeding establishment.
Health records and the Compliance Score
Digital PawPrint can also highlight gaps within health records.
This might include areas such as:
- Vaccinations
- Worming treatments
- Flea treatments
- Weight records
- Genetic or DNA testing
Not every dog will necessarily require the same records.
Your preventative healthcare arrangements should reflect the needs of the individual dog, veterinary advice and the requirements that apply to your establishment.
The Compliance Score is there to draw your attention to the record, not to replace professional or veterinary judgement.
Policies and the Compliance Score
Your policies and SOPs form another part of the overall picture.
Digital PawPrint may highlight policies that have not yet been completed or uploaded.
However, simply having a document should never be the objective.
A completed policy should accurately describe what you actually do within your breeding establishment.
It is better to have a policy that clearly reflects your real routine than a generic document created simply to improve the score.
Use the score as a prompt
The easiest way to think about the Compliance Score is as a prompt asking:
“Is there anything in my Digital PawPrint records that needs my attention?”
If the answer is yes, the system can help point you towards the relevant area.
You can then review the information and decide whether something needs updating.
The score supports good record keeping
Digital PawPrint is most useful when records are updated as things happen.
Add treatments when they are given.
Update Dog Cards when information changes.
Record important activities through My Tasks.
Review policies when procedures change.
Add observations when something unusual happens.
When Digital PawPrint becomes part of your normal routine, the Compliance Score becomes less about preparing for an inspection and more about maintaining an organised, current record of your breeding establishment.
Remember
The Compliance Score is designed to help you identify gaps, organise your records and maintain good record keeping.
It is not an inspection result, licence rating or guarantee of legal compliance.
Use it as a guide to where your records may need attention, then review the underlying information to make sure Digital PawPrint accurately reflects what is happening within your breeding establishment.