Issue - meetings

Report CS18063

The Committee considered a report outlining proposals to introduce mobile working across the Adult Social Care service and requesting the Council’s Executive release £200k from the Council’s Technology Fund to provide the additional IT equipment needed to support the implementation of the scheme.

Following concerns identified around the continuing high demand for Adult Social Care services, a mini-pilot scheme was undertaken in the Initial Response Service to identify how an increased level of mobile working could benefit the service, staff and service users.  The outcome of the eight week pilot scheme which focused on the Occupational Therapy service demonstrated improved productivity in assessments of 40-50% with a significant uplift in the number of service users assessed each week, both increasing the efficiency of the Occupational Therapy Service and supporting service users to retain their independence.  It had been identified that there were 149 posts with assessing responsibility across the Adult Social Care service that might benefit from increased remote working and realise the associated efficiencies, and that a similar move to remote working had recently been rolled-out across Children’s Social Care.  It was therefore proposed that the Council’s Executive approve the release of £200k from the Local Authority’s Technology Fund to provide additional IT equipment to support the implementation of mobile working across the Adult Social Care service.

RESOLVED that the Council’s Executive be recommended to approve the release of £200,000 from the Local Authority’s Technology Fund to provide additional IT equipment to support the implementation of mobile working across the Adult Social Care service, as detailed in Report CS18063.