A Royal Borough councillor voiced her worry over the lack of knowledge of some major cost elements for a project looking to bring part adult services back in-house at the Royal Borough. The council looking to bring the statutory part of adult services back in-house from Optalis, a care service provider jointly owned by the Royal Borough and Wokingham Borough Council (WBC). The changes will also create a £306,590 reduction in the Optalis contract, and the money will be re-deployed to council support services. But he explained that there are opportunities through the Mosaic system to automate elements that are currently done manually in the council. The new Mosaic case management system will replace the the council's case management system PARIS.
