This review follows the examination of a house with two participants, Paul and Daniel. This house originally had three participants, however, several months ago one participant was moved into palliative care, leaving a vacancy in the house.

Please note that names, addresses, and exact amounts have been changed for privacy purposes.

INITIAL ANALYSIS
This combined weekly funding for the two participants in this house was $9,571. Upon investigation, we identified that the claimable roster cost of the service was averaging $12,494 (actual staff cost was $8,896). This was not surprising given the vacancy for this house.

The claimable roster cost is the hours of support multiplied by the applicable hourly rate as opposed to the staff cost which is the actual cost paid to staff as wages.

It was also noted that Paul spent two half days per week at home with his family as well as two other days which he spent time out of the house on social and recreational activities (CP). Daniel also had 3 days which he was out for several hours utilising his Community Participation budget.

ROSTER REVIEW
After sharing the analysis with the service provider we met with the Client Services team to discuss the roster. 

Although it wasn’t possible to negate the vacancy cost entirely, through some realignment of CP schedules and some small changes to the timing of support we were able to reduce the claimable roster by $865 per week.

As can be seen in the table below, as a result of the new roster being implemented we were able to reduce the actual staff cost by $616 per week.