247grid is a visual online digital costed support planning tool, designed by an unpaid carer and coproduced with other end users of social care, social workers and care providers, to facilitate a better coproductive conversation.
Award winning and successfully used in over 20 local authority councils across England and Scotland, 247grid Case studies have been cited by CQC, ADASS , LGA, TSA in national good practice guidance on digital innovation in the future of adult social care. Founder, Rachel Mason's personal aspiration is that every social worker has a 247grid account in their ‘tool kit’, to draw upon when a visual representation could facilitate a much better conversation.247grids can enhance the way councils deliver:
It will take a huge change in culture to reform our social care system, but a journey of a thousand miles, starts with the first step, so by having the 247grid as a tool that practitioners can call up in any of the above tasks, could be that first step
Guided by the Governments 12 priorities, the 247grid aims to encourage more coproduction and codesign between practitioners, support providers and people who draw on services, whether that is a young person preparing for adulthood, an older person looking for help around the areas they are struggling with, an individual who is being discharged from hospital who wants to make sure they can visualise the support they need.
Unlike a formal assessment or review process, when visualised on a weekly 247grid, people can put their lives into context, naturally thinking in outcomes rather than need, and often come up with their own solutions.
The 247grid naturally facilitates a ‘new conversation’ by encouraging social workers to:
Discover more at: https://www.247grid.com