Issue - meetings

At their meeting in November 2012, the Committee agreed to monitor the implementation  of the  MOSAIC programme, which would start in 2013.The Committee will consider an update report on MOSAiC which is a major redevelopment of FWi, Haringey’s social care recording system, which is being designed and developed in partnership with the supplier and 14 other early adopter authorities.

 The Committee received an update on the major redevelopment of the Framework I social care recording system, Mosaic. This was a new generation of network programmes which was designed to be more intuitive and   user focussed. It was hoped that the new system will reduce social work recording times, improve staff experience of the system and provide long term improvements in data quality practice and performance. Haringey will be an early adopter of the new system along with 13 other boroughs. Haringey wanted to be at the fore front of the adoption of the new system to ensure it was made to work for staff in Haringey. The first release of the programme was expected in October 2013 and at the moment IT and Children and Young People’s Service was involved with the conversion of data from Framework I to Mosaic.

The current recording system  captures information  in ‘episodes’ and  the new  system will  be a ‘form’  based system which will allow  social workers to pass information to managers more speedily , help with work prioritisation  with reminders  about visits that need to be made.

 Members welcomed the developments to the system and sought assurance that data would not be misplaced in the transfer. They were assured that there had been an enormous effort to back up the data and training and testing would not take place on the live version of the system to protect data.

 In response to a question about the training of staff, there would be user acceptance training before the system went live. The Committee were assured that the system would not go live until the go ahead was given by staff.