Tools & services

Planning4care provides a range of standard tools, outputs and bespoke services, including:

Standard package

  • Strategic needs assessment report for your local area
  • Web-site access to the analysis tool
  • Scenario mapping: projecting care scenarios
  • Briefings on the analysis and the use of the website tool

Added-value services

  • Mapping needs and service use at neighbourhood level
  • Regular data updates
  • Bespoke analysis, e.g. gap-analysis and ‘what-if’ scenarios
  • Workshops to support development of commissioning strategies

Planning4care costs

Download an example Planning4care report

Download a Planning4care order form

Taking strategic needs assessment forward —
A new tool for commissioners and providers of social care

Planning4care represents a leap forward in strategic needs assessment and demand forecasting. It is a hands-on dynamic tool providing local analysis of changing needs and the implications for services and costs.

Planning4care provides the essential analysis for the social care element of Joint Strategic Needs Assessment for older people.

an elderly couple

Planning4care:

  • Profiles the older population by levels of care needs
  • Takes account of local risk factors
  • Maps areas of greatest needs
  • Projects future costs and service requirements
  • Lets you explore changing scenarios

Planning4care is affordable. Strategic needs assessment for a local authority and PCT starts from £5,000, with the basic package including a strategic needs assessment report, full website access, scenario mapping and introductory briefing.

Planning4care has now been launched, and you can register for a free demonstration trial of the tool.

Planning4care tool has been developed by Care Equation and Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI) and has been piloted in Brighton & Hove with support from the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP).

The Planning4care team would like to thank the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at LSE for permission to adopt the structure of the PSSRU long-term care finance model and for helpful advice.