Improvement priority: 12: Implement Self- Directed Support in Highland including and Adult Services. both Children’s Services a. Identify future funding requirements for SDS and options for budgetary reconfiguration within Services. Children’s Measures / evaluation Actions Timescale Lead BRAG Finance Jan 2015 Manager A report to the Implementation Group which converts the cost of in house services to a unit cost. Identify the total spend on social care packages for children with disabilities. Calculate current in house service costs as a unit cost. Identify all other budgets Jan Mar Dev – Further analysis outlining the total cost of social used to purchase support. This will enable the total cost of care packages for 2015 Officer care packages and how they are currently funded to children with disabilities to be calculated with a financial break down for each service Disability validate or inform the RAS financial formula and at a Highland wide and district level. & Area provide a baseline for forecasting future SDS spend, Children as well as possible budgets for pooling/reduction. Manager Finance April 2015 Manager Analyse data from individuals who have transferred to SDS from the Support & Dev By extrapolating the data from this sample group Plans where a RAS has been completed. Scrutiny of the component parts within the Officer and comparing this with the information collected SDS packages will provide an indication of the differences in support packages Disability above it should be possible to produce a report following the SDS process. detailing services likely to be affected by SDS and Agree options to ensure the capture of outcomes being met as this should underpin the impact this may have. any subsequent RAS Finance Produce an options appraisal with proposals outlining budgetary Mar 2015 Manager reconfiguration Data from Actions above should be sufficient to forecast the level of An options appraisal to allow senior management to & Dev funding required for S-DS. make an informed decision regarding possible Officer It will be necessary to agree which budgets are potentially in scope for SDS. Disability budgetary reconfiguration or reduction. Consider the option of a central SDS budget utilising the cost centres and budgets identified. b. Develop clear processes and governance structures to ensure consistency, financial assurance and monitoring of SDS. Actions Measures / evaluation Timescale Lead BRAG
Improvement priority: 12: Implement Self- Directed Support in Highland including both Children’s Services and Adult Services. a. Identify future funding requirements for SDS and options for budgetary reconfiguration within Children’s Services. Actions Measures / evaluation Timescale Lead BRAG Identify the total spend on social care packages for children with disabilities. Calculate current in house service costs as a unit cost. Identify all other budgets used to purchase support. This will enable the total cost of care packages for children with disabilities to be calculated with a financial break down for each service at a Highland wide and district level. A report to the Implementation Group which converts the cost of in house services to a unit cost. Further analysis outlining the total cost of social care packages and how they are currently funded to validate or inform the RAS financial formula and provide a baseline for forecasting future SDS spend, as well as possible budgets for pooling/reduction. Jan 2015 Jan – Mar 2015 Finance Manager Dev Officer Disability & Area Children Manager Analyse data from individuals who have transferred to SDS from the Support Plans where a RAS has been completed. Scrutiny of the component parts within the SDS packages will provide an indication of the differences in support packages following the SDS process. Agree options to ensure the capture of outcomes being met as this should underpin any subsequent RAS By extrapolating the data from this sample group and comparing this with the information collected above it should be possible to produce a report detailing services likely to be affected by SDS and the impact this may have. April 2015 Finance Manager & Dev Officer Disability Produce an options appraisal with proposals outlining budgetary reconfiguration Data from Actions above should be sufficient to forecast the level of funding required for S-DS. It will be necessary to agree which budgets are potentially in scope for SDS. Consider the option of a central SDS budget utilising the cost centres and budgets identified. An options appraisal to allow senior management to make an informed decision regarding possible budgetary reconfiguration or reduction. Mar 2015 Finance Manager & Dev Officer Disability b. Develop clear processes and governance structures to ensure consistency, financial assurance and monitoring of SDS. Actions Measures / evaluation Timescale Lead BRAG
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