Services for Children and Young People - Find a freedom of information request

Services for Children and Young People

1. What case management system do you use for children's services?

2. Please provide the name(s), email(s), and telephone number(s) of the individual(s) responsible for the FIS / SEND Local Offer websites within your organisation?

3. Are your Local Offer pages/FIS site developed in-house or externally?

If externally, which providers currently provide your Family Information Services directories and/or SEND Local Offer site?

If external, please confirm the value of the FIS contract and/or Local Offer site detailing implementation cost and ongoing if possible and when it is due for renewal?

If internally, are there any plans for this to be developed by an external supplier?

4. Please provide the name(s), email(s), and telephone number(s) of the individual(s) responsible for Short Breaks provision

5. Do you provide grants or direct payments for Short Breaks provision? If not, are there any plans to provide grants or direct payments in the future?

6. What was the annual spend on Short Breaks provision for the last financial year?

7. Do parents/carers book Short Breaks provision via the council? If not, do you use an external organisation to provide this service?

8. Do you use digital solutions to assist with the application, awarding and management of Short Breaks? If so, who is the provider and when is the contract due to expire?

9. Are you considering using digital solutions to manage and oversee your Short Breaks?

10. Who oversees the management of personal budgets and direct payments for children/families and what are their contact details? - i.e. name(s), email (s Does the LA use 3rd party services and/or digital solutions to assist with the delivery and budget management of CYPs personal budgets, direct payments, e.g. pre-paid cards, eWallet solutions, direct payment support services, digital software?

If yes, what solution is used, who is the provider and when is the contract due to expire?

If no, is this something that you are considering and who in the LA is the person to contact about this and what are their contact details - i.e. name(s), email (s

11. Who is the Director of Children's Services at the council and please provide their title, name and email address?

12. Who is the Assistant Director of Children's Services at the council and please provide their title, name and email address?

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. Mosaic

2. Elizabeth Fish elizabeth.fish@lincolnshire.gov.uk

3. Local offer internal, FIS external, Idox. Cost - £18000pa Renewal -31 March 2026, No plans to make changes on either

4. Karen.dowman@lincolnshire.gov.uk

5. A DP is provided following an assessment of need by social care is there is an identified unmet social care need.

6. Spend for 2023/24 for short break homes:

 Short break homes are partially funded by the ICB and contributed £521, 000. The remainder of the above total is LCC’s spend.

23/24 spend which may need to be included:

LC1070 – SBS ASC / Holiday Club (£220,776)

LC1072 – Short Breaks Development (£8,000)

LC1074 – SBS Peripatetic Advisory Service (£65,375)

LC1066 – CWD Direct Payments (£482,358) (May include other provision )

LC1067 – CWD Section 17 (£412,860) (May include other provision )

7. Families organised their own care via their DP; Holiday Clubs are booked directly with the provider

8. No

9. No

10. The LA does not use 3rd party services and/or digital solutions to assist with the delivery and budget management of CYPs personal budgets, direct payments, e.g. pre-paid cards, e-Wallet solutions,direct payment support services, digital software.  SEND PBs are overseen by SEND Caseworkers with Finance teams.  SC DPs are overseen by the CWD team manager

11. Heather Sandy – Director of Children’s Services - heather.sandy@lincolnshire.gov.uk

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 -  Tara Jones: Assistant Director, Children’s Safeguarding

-   Jo Kavanagh: Assistant Director, Early Help

-   Linda Dennett: Assistant Director, Children’s Health & Commissioning

-   Martin Smith: Assistant Director, Children’s Education

-   Sarah Nardone: Assistant Director, Sector Led Improvement (currently on secondment in Nottingham)