Issue - meetings

This report sets out an urgent proposal to rebuild the Children’s Services side of the Children and Adults Social Care System, Mosaic, by removing unworkable licenced forms and replacing with bespoke simplified forms that would need to be fully designed with the service and built using codes that map data across to all the performance reporting, which will ultimately better embed the Council’s practice model framework.

The report asks the Council to agree the addition of £1.7m to the revenue budget to be funded from reserves.

Background:

This report set out an urgent proposal to rebuild the Children’s Services side of the Children and Adults Social Care System, Mosaic, by removing unworkable licenced forms and replacing with bespoke simplified forms that would need to be fully designed with the service and built using codes that mapped data across to all the performance reporting, which would ultimately better embed the Council’s practice model framework.

The report asked the Council to agree the addition of £1.7m to the revenue budget to be funded from reserves.

The Portfolio Holder for Children’s Services – Lead Member, Councillor Mrs Josie Iles, supported by the Portfolio Holder for Education and Schools, Councillor Potter, proposed the recommendations set out in the report.

Decision:

The Council approved the addition of £1.7m to the revenue budget, to be funded from Council reserves, in line with phasing detailed at paragraph 9.1 of the report.

Background:

This report set out an urgent proposal to rebuild the Children’s Services side of the Children and Adults Social Care System, Mosaic, by removing unworkable licenced forms and replacing with bespoke simplified forms. This would ultimately better embed the Council’s practice model framework.

The report stated that it was imperative that Children’s services removed barriers to good practice by simplifying case management recording, and that progress was made at pace in the face of Ofsted monitoring visits and the full inspection.

A Diversity Impact Assessment (DIA) had been completed in relation to the proposal to redesign and replace the existing Children’s Urgent Forms. The DIA was set out at Appendix 2 to the report.

Reasons:

The recommendations will enable the service to transition away from the existing Signs of Safety forms and work to develop simplified forms and drive sustainable strengths-based practice improvement.