SOSCARE Support and maintenance

The SOSCARE application serving a business area that is wide, varied and complex in nature. It covers areas such as: • Looked After Children • Child Protection • Foster Parent Enquires and Approvals • Fostering Finance payment to Foster Parents • Adoption • Home Care services including : o rostering of staff o production of the correct working/leave hours data file for direct transfer to HRPTS for payment of Trust home helps every fortnight . The application also links to other business systems such as LCID and eNISAT for additional functionality such as assessment outcomes, as well as providing key risk data to the ECR application for the Out of Hours Social Work Service and hospital-based staff. The system is critical to the safe delivery of services and any system errors/failures or delays can have far reaching implications for both HSC employees and the service users and providers.