Soft Market Testing - Adult Social Care Personal Budget Calculator

The London Borough of Hackney is currently reviewing care charging in line with the Government's new Social Care policy reforms on Care Charging and the financial cap.

As part of this work we need to be able to calculate fair and transparent personal budgets and Hackney would like to consider an electronic system to do this.

We are seeking companies which have previous experience of providing systems that calculate Adult Social Care personal budgets.

Features required: Accurate and transparent personal budget calculations The ability to calculate a personal budget (where the LA is going to meet the needs of the individual) and an independent personal budget (IPB), (where the individual arranges their own care) Based on Care Act principles Supports strength based approaches Can or will meet the requirements and challenges of the new Adult Social Care Care charging reforms Compatible with Mosaic Adult social care solution Can be configured to support local rates and principles such as London Living Wage Meet the needs of all groups of clients including older adults; people with LD; Mental health and Brain injuries

We wish to test the market and find out what solutions are available and on the market to help inform our future tender processes.