PUBLIC DIGITAL LIMITED
Transforming the front door in social care settings
Public Digital is a digital transformation consultancy. We work with Local Authorities to support the technology-enabled service transformation of their front door arrangements in children’s social care to improve outcomes for children and families. This involves a programme of discovery, multi-agency service design, training and data analysis.
Features
- Data analysis from case management system, case review, ethnographic research
- Summary of current working practices, presenting findings to stakeholders
- Service redesign of front door including digitally-enabled service flows
- Optimise cloud-based technology channels to support service delivery
- Whole team training and implementation including coaching for managers
- Engage multi-agency stakeholders and referral partners to embed service
- Performance reviews and analysis of key data at milestone points
- Follow-up 52 week data analysis, performance report and training
- Nurturing community of practice to sustain front door service approach
Benefits
- Optimise digital/cloud-based services to improve outcomes for children
- Increase contacts with multi-agency referral partners
- Promote shared decision-making between referral partners and social workers
- Provision of support for children and families
- Reduction in referrals and social work assessments
- Improved satisfaction of multi-agency referral partners
- Reduced social work caseloads and increased capacity
- Reduced social worker attrition and turnover
- Improved outcomes for families including fewer Looked After Children
Pricing
£125,000 to £240,000 a unit a year
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
9 3 0 6 0 7 3 9 1 4 0 6 8 5 8
Contact
PUBLIC DIGITAL LIMITED
Public Digital
Telephone: 07908775575
Email: procurement@public.digital
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
-
Our blended team of social care and digital experts work closely with children’s social care teams to fully scope and plan the approach, based on a review of the current technology and tooling, teams, digital and telephony referral pathways and how they are used, inter-agency working, and ways of working. A detailed review is conducted of 300 digital case files are reviewed alongside data analysis of key social work metrics and interviews with social workers to identify how current service is operating, including decision-making, service handoffs, referral and assessment pathways, outcomes, technology and data categorisation supported by the cloud-based products used within the end-to-end service. This is supported by ethnographic user research to plan the support programme and approach to enable the front door transformation.
A 12-month programme is typically then planned to support the transformation to the new way of working, encompassing service design, training, coaching, data analysis, monitoring and evaluation. - Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
-
The Transforming the Front Door programme involves extensive training and ongoing coaching for social workers, social work managers, and referral partners to embed the digitally-enabled approach. This is delivered through a blend of different approaches including:
Classroom-based content delivery, including underpinning theory, role play, case studies, and exercises based on real world examples, and particularisation techniques
Use of data and insight based on analysis from case management software
Monitoring and coaching of teams in live delivery of services
Coaching for individual managers
Training and embedding of approach through weekly team meetings and daily group meetings
Encouraging reflective practice
Nurturing of communities of practice
Impact of training is measured by data analysis on impact on case volumes, assessment and referral numbers, and retraining is provided as required. - Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- No
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
- Cyber security consultancy
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- N/a
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- We respond to client queries on email within 24 hrs
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- N/a
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Staff screening not performed
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
-
Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Both internally and on engagements, we commit to working in a way that actively reduces our carbon footprint, conserves resources and promotes sustainability.
We maintain an organisational commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero as quickly as possible before 2050. We do this through a combination of emission limitation, reduction and elimination and have been calculating, monitoring and publishing our emissions data since 2022.
We actively follow and encourage good practice, including:
-Using our annual emissions data to develop science-based targets
-Using office space that is powered by renewable energy, including securing certification of the energy’s origin, and increasing the energy efficiency of hardware and software used in our delivery work
-Limiting air travel to long haul, using only public transport and electric vehicles for transit, selecting accommodation that can evidence sustainability practices, and exploring sustainable travel booking options
-Identifying a reduction target for carbon emissions per employee as an intensity unit
-Compiling advice and activities to support employees in making ethical and sustainable choices in the course of their work and personal lives, including:
-switching to renewable energy providers and opting in to salary-sacrifice schemes
-Challenging our suppliers to provide actionable carbon data and reduce their carbon footprints
-Off-setting at least 150% of our emissions and exploring carbon syncing whereby emissions are absorbed at approximately the same rate as they are emitted by the company.
On projects, we promote conscientious design and development practices that are inherently mindful of social and ecological impact, without sacrificing standards and user experience.
We take measures to ensure that activities take place remotely where possible and support clients to make technology decisions that reduce the planetary impacts of their operations.Tackling economic inequality
Much of our work centres around helping partners deliver public-purpose services that are user-focused and consider inclusivity as a key driver.
This includes adherence to and promotion of recognised standards, such as the UNDP’s Sustainable Development Goals.
To achieve equitable outcomes through our work, we regularly engage end-user citizens, prioritising those most at risk of exclusion and addressing their most critical needs.
With clients, we regularly work to benefit the broader community, responding to opportunities to engage and add value beyond the immediate project scope.
Public Digital is committed to being a diverse and inclusive community with a broad spectrum of job families, skills and roles, and employees from a variety of backgrounds and nationalities.
Some of the measures we take to tackle economic inequality include:
-Maintaining a Code of Conduct to ensure that all of our work adheres to best practice and standards in fighting global issues such as child labour, forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking.
-Partnering with educational institutions to offer paid internships each year; since 2021 we have offered eight internships, offering interns a first hand view of digital transformation and research projects and involvement in live client projects.
-Offering flexible working arrangements to accommodate staff, including remote working, flexitime and part-time hours.
-Promoting and paying for training, courses and other programmes to encourage personal and professional development.
-Putting in place governance structures, such as a Social Impact Committee who meet quarterly to discuss our engagement internally and externally on key themes.
These include environment, equality & diversity and supply chain.
We also have a Wellbeing, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group for staff.
Committing to investing time and money to good causes for both local and international charities.Equal opportunity
Public Digital is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and benefits from the diversity of background, experience and opinion of its employees.
We take proactive measures to remove barriers to employment for underrepresented and marginalised groups, following good practice and eliminating unconscious biases.
We do this through fair recruitment and selection practices, inclusive internal processes, and providing transparent individual development plans.
We have applied the following behaviours and practices to discourage bias:
-Using blind-sifting of all applications
-Performing routine bias checks on job descriptions and advertising channels to ensure we are not discouraging potentially disadvantaged candidates
-Ensuring we use diverse selection panels to mitigate bias
-Advertising roles in low and middle-income countries so that our workforce is reflective of our global client base
-Discussing employee’s individual needs as part of onboarding and ensuring that anyone with additional needs receive support, including workplace adjustments and supporting remote team members to feel connected and included in all aspects of the business.
-Providing employees with a career mentor and a pastoral buddy alongside their line manager.
-Ensuring a coaching approach is embedded in our working practices, with all managers receiving coaching training.
To date we have:
--Reduced the gender gap, with 70% female employees and a third of women in leadership positions, including a majority of both the Leadership Team and Board.
-Increased representation of non-white ethnic groups from 13% to 20% since 2022.
-We have also worked with clients to support more inclusive recruitment practices:
We consider diversity when creating teams for new projects, bringing together different skills, perspectives and backgrounds, and ensuring our project teams are representative of society at large.
We also provide training to clients on understanding unconscious bias and equality for hiring managers, to ensure we consider inclusivity throughout.Wellbeing
The health, safety and wellbeing of our staff is our primary concern. We view both mental and physical health as equally important, recognising that anyone can be affected and that issues can arise from many different situations.
We maintain a positive, supportive and transparent environment, openly discussing wellbeing risks and the signs to watch out for in ourselves and others. We believe that accessing help should be normalised, straightforward and judgement-free, encouraging wellbeing through various mechanisms and approaches:
-Regular buddy and manager check in meetings, these are set at monthly intervals, but are often more frequent.
-Open communication groups which cover topics on mental health and wellbeing, women’s health, career coaching
-Regular team and whole business gatherings which encourage interaction and provides staff with more avenues for support.
-Trained Mental Health First Aiders who can offer confidential support and guidance.
-Regular engagement surveys for staff which are reported at Management Board meetings.
This helps us to understand how we can improve the way we work but also to respond to feedback from our staff and network members.
A Social Value Committee who meets quarterly to discuss our engagement internally and externally on four key themes, Environment, Equality & Diversity, Supply Chain and Wellbeing.
Policies for Dignity at Work (including anti bullying and harassment), Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and a comprehensive internal grievance policy.
All new starters are given access to our policies when onboarding.
When working on projects, we always do so in teams of at least two, whilst ensuring that a senior Partner has oversight of work and regularly checks in with engaged colleagues to understand progress and concerns.
Pricing
- Price
- £125,000 to £240,000 a unit a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Service documents
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