Direct Payment Monitoring Tool
Reference ocds-b5fd17-2b17a3de-92bc-4c2d-85c0-00b2677713c2 · ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
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Description
Essex County Council (ECC) are seeking a software solution that utilises the open banking technology to make monitoring of Direct Payments within dedicated bank accounts easier for the Direct Payment Recipient and ECC. ECC currently make Direct payments to around 3000 people each month. The Direct Payment (in line with the Care Act (2014) is a payment to allow the person to commission their own care and support. Of these 3000 Direct Payments (DP) there are 1,000 people who receive the funds into a bank account. ECC's DP agreement sets out that this must be a dedicated account for their direct payment only (i.e. no other payments are made into this account). As well as having a statutory duty to ensure people have their unmet assessed needs met under the Care Act (2014), ECC has a fiduciary duty to proportionately monitor these accounts to ensure the funds are being used to meet the need and not being misappropriated. This process is currently very manual and relies on DP recipients sending ECC's monitoring team copies of bank statements. This is very time consuming and inefficient, thus a new solution is required. A pilot is planned to enable ECC's DP Monitoring Team to h…
Official publications
| Medium | Reference | Date |
|---|---|---|
| FTS | cadc141f-958d-46cf-8614-48f7aecd93e0-826610 | 14 February 2025 |
| Contracts Finder | cadc141f-958d-46cf-8614-48f7aecd93e0-826610 | 14 February 2025 |
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