Case study
Building digital fostering products with Now Foster
Now Foster is a start-up charity working with the public sector to address the UK's shortage of foster carers. Their Weekenders programme offers people the chance to build a relationship with a child in care by fostering one weekend per month.
Bringing new foster carers into the system is time-consuming and complex, with high drop-off rates. Applicants need clear guidance; social workers need better visibility of progress and next steps.
- Prospective carer portal. A step-by-step experience that guides applicants through the recruitment process, clarifies what's required, and shows progress and next steps.
- Social worker workspace. Overviews and management tools to track onboarding, tasks, meetings, and follow-ups across multiple applicants.
- AI features. Streamlining workflows by automating tasks such as summarising and reformatting content.
We partnered closely with Now Foster to shape the product around real workflows, prioritising clarity for applicants and operational visibility for teams. The platform is designed with safeguarding and privacy in mind.
The platform reduces friction for prospective carers and gives social workers a clearer, more manageable pipeline. We're continuing to iterate with Now Foster to extend features and scale the service with partner authorities and are really excited about the impact it's having.
Case study
Helping to support our ageing population
Our tech solutions enable Age UK to deliver adult social care in Oxfordshire. The charity - commissioned by Oxfordshire County Council and the NHS - delivers a range of services to older people, people with dementia, their carers and their families.
Deliver a transformation of client management databases across all service areas within the organisation, giving teams bespoke tools while securely sharing data across services, enabling streamlined support, reporting and communication.
- Five tailored service platforms designed around each team's workflows, with secure cross-service data sharing and duplicate detection/merging.
- Migration from legacy systems including data cleansing and reconciliation.
- A central reporting hub that brings together activity and outcomes from all services to support daily operations and organisational level reporting.
We implemented an agile process of fortnightly sprints with regular demos and stakeholder reviews. Alongside this we maintained close collaboration with frontline teams, iterating quickly so benefits were visible early and priorities could be shaped by users.
More efficiency, more visibility and software that caseworkers want to use! We're continuing to work with Age UK Oxfordshire to support and enhance the solution.