coventry launch of the cost calculator for children's services monday 3 rd november 2008
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Coventry Launch of theCoventry Launch of theCost Calculator for Children's ServicesCost Calculator for Children's Services
Monday 3rd November 2008
Background
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
Five local authorities
OverheadsEight local authorities
Finding education provision
Ongoing education provision
Leaving education provision
Complex Cases Panel
Assessment for SEN
SEN Disputes and Tribunals
SEN Review
Decide to look after
Care planning
Maintaining placement
Leaving Care
Finding subsequent placement
Review
Legal interventions
Transition to Aftercare
Children in Needlinked to CiN census
Health & Mental HealthCheshire
Social CareLooked After Children
EducationCoventry
Activity Included
United StatesUnited StatesOregon Social Learning CenterOregon Social Learning Center
Youth Justice & Socio-Legal
planned
Launch Programme
I How can the Cost Calculator help?
II Reporting requirements
III Training Programme
What is the Cost Calculator?
Accurately compares the true costs of different types of care.
Placement Fees
Everything Else
Gathering Unit Costs for Coventry
Importing Coventry LAC and SEN data
Coventry’s Cost Calculator
Gathering Data: Methodology
• Recording the time taken to complete specific activities e.g.– Assessment of Special Educational Needs
– Care Planning
– Ongoing support to care placement and education provision
– Looked After and SEN Reviews
Unit costof activity
Number of hours taken for activity
Hourly cost of postholder who
carries out activity = x
Gathering Data: Focus Groups
SEN Office
1 hour1 hour1 hourN/AN/ATravel
Where held?
30 mins30 mins30 mins30 mins30 minsHow long?
Who goes?
Educational Psychologist
Head of Education
Welfare Service
Parent Partnership
OfficerHead of SEN
SEN Education
Officer
Gathering Data: Unit Costs
SEN Education
OfficerHead of
SENSEN Case
WorkerSEN
AdministratorEducational
Psychologist
Head of Education
Welfare
Parent Partnership
Officer
£200 £50 £50 £25 £200 £50 £25
• Cost of Standard Case = £600
• Add complexities:– Child with complex needs such as emotional behavioural
difficulties = £535– Dispute entering tribunal = £865
• Total Cost of Complex Case = £2000
Child-Level Data
SSDA 903
• Analysis of Financial Arrangements for a major residential contract
• Information for Short Breaks Consultation
Community Activities
Five evenings
Day Trips or Outings
Two trips
Overnight Residential
One night Goal: Mainstreaming information.
Existing Uses of the Cost Calculator
Key Benefits
• Complete information: Accurately compare the true costs of different types of care
• Transparent costs: Promotes greater cost-consciousness in both social care and education
• Enables more effective decision making in planning and commissioning services – resulting in better use of resources and improved outcomes.
Reporting requirements
Cost Calculator Group Report
Need
Cost Calculator Group Report
Age
Cost Calculator Group Report
PlacementCost Calculator Group Report
SEN
Cost Calculator Group Report
School Year
Cost Calculator Group Report
School Type
We will be seeking your ideas about reports you need.
Reporting requirements: Case Study
• Complex Cases Panel
• Information requirements:– Knowledge about existing situation and
– Compare possible placements.
• How can we use the Cost Calculator?– Additional management information to make
informed decisions.
Reporting requirements: Complex Cases Panel
Existing Situation
• Look up Individual Child Record for Charles
Charles’s Report
LA Residential: £116,000
Total Cost: £120,000
Reporting requirements: Complex Cases Panel
Compare Possible Placements
• Existing local authority residential
• Placement with out-of-city agency residential
• Placement with in-city residential contract Band B
What are our anticipated costs till 31st March if we place Charles today?
Solution: Conduct a what-if analysis!
Reporting requirements: Complex Cases Panel
LA Residential in LA (Default) (Default) - Changed to: Ag Residential + Ed in LA Northern Care Northern Care Contract In City Band B
Charles’s Report03/11/2008 to 31/03/2009
LA Residential: £67,000
Charles’s Report03/11/2008 to 31/03/2009
Agency Residential OOC:
£78,000
Charles’s Report03/11/2008 to 31/03/2009
Contract Band B in-city:
£64,000
Training Programme
Aim• Train users in each area of CLYP to use the
CCfCS to generate information appropriate for their managers.
Objectives• To develop an understanding of the CCfCS and
what it will do;• to learn how navigate around CCfCS and produce
and save reports;• to interpret and use data from CCfCS.
