Children's Health & Social Care
Formulate provides a strengths-based approach to estimating accurate personal budgets for children and young people across Health & Social Care.
Co-produced alongside councils and CCGs
Capture the needs of the child or young person.
Assess the sustainability of support from parents/carers.
Estimate budgets fairly and consistently.
Report on assessment data across all or selected service users.
Monitor and compare total budgets and allocations by care domain.
Formulate gives us an evidence-based and consistent way across the service of coming up with an indicative budget. It also allows us to have a really sensible conversation with families about how a support plan might be developed to meet their child's needs with the outcomes they want.
Strategic Commissioner - Children and Young People
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Key benefits
- Co-produced with health and social care practitioners.
- Offers an evidence-based and defensible approach to budgeting.
- Supports integrated working across health and social care.
- Fast form completion as questions only appear if they're relevant.
- Easily explore and report on your budgets and population.
- Compatible with leading social care IT systems.
Formulate supports practitioners with their professional decision making. It's enabled resources to be spread fairly across the system and is a great way to ensure the package a child or young person is receiving meets their needs now and in the future.
Commissioning Officer - Children and Young People
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council introduces a new approach to calculating personal budgets for children and young people.
Children's Services at Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has launched a new and innovative approach to calculating personal budgets for children and young people with disabilities in Solihull.
