Carer register functionality
As soon as you add carer approval information to a carer’s record, this information automatically populates the carer register to support the placement and matching process. You can include detail depending on how specific a local authority wishes to be, for example, you may need to record specific ages, languages, or religions. These in turn enable you to search for a suitable carer for this criteria.
This reduces the need for you to maintain separate spreadsheets and manually update availability, as this automatically updates when you place a child with a carer on Mosaic.
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You can view detailed examples of the screens and information in our guide.
Carer register purchasing and reports
When purchasing a placement on Mosaic and linking the child with the carer, the functionality automatically uses the carer register. This enables you to record the carer as the Allocated Carer when adding a care type, for example, long-term fostering placement for the child.
Impact of not using the carer register:
If you instead use Allocate Carer within the purchasing step, it uses the Allocate Party functionality. This enables linking of the carer for any payments but doesn’t limit this to only allow approved carers. For example, you could easily use a parent in error.
This still displays the package on the person summary screen and links the child to that person in respect of their placement history, but it doesn’t update any of the vacancy information described in the Carer register functionality section. As a result, none of those dashboards or reports would provide any useful information, and it’s likely that you would need to maintain a manual record of this information.
If you’re not intending to use the carer register to manage vacancies and allocation of placements, there’s a risk in keeping your carer approval information up to date, as there’s less immediate impact if you’re not allocating the carer specifically via purchasing.
This means that some of the reports within the report's repository may not work or may be less useful if the information isn’t reliable. For example, the statutory Ofstead Fostering Dataset and the non-statutory Foster Carer Register reports bot populate key information from the carer approval screens.