a system for social service case management tat facilitates storage and querying of social services data in a knowledgebase in order to provide quantitative accountability for social services via a navigable user interface . the method includes the tracking and assessment of social services based on a defined list of client barriers to success and an indication of the severity of each barrier , and then objectively tracking progress of the social worker based on the reduction of severity and / or elimination of those barriers . the method is implemented in software form using a structured relational database whereby storage tables are inter - related by one or more shared fields . all of the foregoing method steps are administered to and by the social worker using a navigable user interface . the graphical user interface includes a plurality of single - click buttons each for initiating a pre - determined sql query for allowing a user to generate a report for maintaining quantitative accountability for social services .