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CORS - Case Outcome Recording System

CORS is a simple to use, flexible case recording and monitoring system. It is targeted at supporting smaller scale charities and community organisations. Having extensive experience of Social care settings, the developers were keen to keep recording processes to a minimum.

Smaller scale community groups and partnership providers do not have the staff resources to manage complex business information systems. They are however worried about the upcoming requirements for ‘Outcome Focused’ requirements and ‘Personal Budgets’.

The groups we have been working with have come together to tackle a specific social problem they have expert knowledge of or interest in, like teenage knife crime, or mental health day care, and as such they have little awareness of information storage systems. In one case the group were using a ‘worry book’ at the end of each day to write down things that had happened; another relied on the sign-in register to count centre attendance. In both cases they needed a record of what activities each person had undertaken and what outcomes or risks were associated with their attendance.

CORS can take basic information already being recorded, and with minimal setup turn it into a raft of evidence and risk related professional records.

Accurate recording in this way is not only necessary to fulfil funding targets but the organisations we have worked with realised that it was also a relief to have a system that they can return to and search for historical information, emerging patterns, and workflow management.

By merely attending the centre a service user may meet certain outcome objectives such as socialisation or anxiety reduction. Therefore by selecting a service user from a drop down menu list against a certain date or activity the associated outcome tables will be populated for management reporting functions. At the same time, case managers/workers have the capacity to add ad hoc information such as risk issues or information pertinent to intervention.

The CORS system is developed by a company called Gravitas.

For more information you can visit the Gravitas website by clicking here: www.go-gravitas.co.uk/