Cabinet Member for Adults, Health and Housing Services

Due to the urgent nature of the report, it was not available to be published with the agenda. The report will be circulated as a separate supplement shortly.

AGREED: That Cabinet noted the report and approved £60,574 of capital expenditure for April 2024 to support the completion of the current phase of the case management system implementation.

Councillor Del Campo, Cabinet Member for Adults, Health and Housing Services, said that adult services consumed by far the greatest proportion of the Council’s budget. She said that a historic reliance on an outdated system had led to a heavy reliance on spreadsheets, delays in billing and difficulties in reconciling the finances. The Mosaic system brought with it many positives, which residents would benefit greatly from.  Phase 1 of the project had now been carried out; however, it had shown that the Council did not have all of the specialist skills required to complete the project internally. Full Council would be asked in April 2024, to approve the spend of £1.00m to complete the final stages of the project.

Councillor Price asked if this had been identified in the risk factors during the budget setting process. Councillor Del Campo replied by saying that she was aware of it. however, wished to avoid going down the fake budget route and therefore could not pinpoint specific costings to it as this was unknown.

AGREED: That Cabinet noted the report and approved £60,574 of capital expenditure for April 2024 to support the completion of the current phase of the case management system implementation.