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We can model the complex interplay of children’s services into a financial forecast with clear reasons for expenditure growth.
We model how capacity of provisions, caseload growth and changing needs will impact different budget codes of your High Needs and Children’s Social Care budgets. We can:
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Model how inflation and market dynamics impact the average cost of your in-house and independent provision types.
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Assess how recent trends in mainstream inclusion, foster carer shortages and adoption impact high-cost placement demand.
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Analyse how availability of provision in local areas impacts what type of placement children are likely to access.
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We can create a strategy to reduce high-cost placements and provide provision for more children using in-house services.
We look at local trends and individual cases to identify why escalation of need happens. We can:
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Review your commissioned contracts and independent market environment to identify savings opportunities.
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Identify recent trends in age groups and needs types that are contributing most to high cost placements.
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Review individual cases to understand early support that can effectively reduce the incoming demand of high-cost placements.
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We can create business cases to evaluate the impact of existing and new transformation plans on financial position in future years.
By analysing data from children’s services, finance, inclusion and transport, we can:
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Calculate how operational KPI targets and workstream impacts will affect financial position over multiple years.
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Model the cost avoidance from your transformation workstreams.
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Model the savings from your transformation workstreams.
