---
title: "Is Action for Children CHARMS down? Action for Children CHARMS status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/actionforchildren/charms"
description: "Live Action for Children CHARMS status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Action for Children CHARMS down?

**Answer:** No, Action for Children CHARMS is not down. All Action for Children CHARMS systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T09:00:02Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [Action for Children](/status/actionforchildren.md) / Systems
- Official status page: https://status.actionforchildren.org.uk
- About: CHARMS is a comprehensive and user-friendly system designed specifically for fostering, adoption, residential and other children's services. It is a complete database system for care providers

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting CHARMS

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-07-09 | [CHARMS Live Environment is unavailable](https://stspg.io/05yqqk56xzt8) | critical | 1d 1h |
| 2026-07-01 | [CHARMS Live Environment is unavailable](https://stspg.io/knjyrvlfxq57) | major | 21h 2m |
| 2025-02-18 | [CHARMS Live Unavailable](https://stspg.io/r76dm15p927n) | major | 44m |
| 2023-11-13 | [CHARMS Unavailable](https://stspg.io/pnd26xwfw35v) | critical | 55m |
| 2022-12-08 | [CHARMS Application Access issue](https://stspg.io/br5lrqw443gf) | incident | 1h 54m |

## Links

- HTML page: /status/actionforchildren/charms
- Service: /status/actionforchildren.md