Adam care commissioning
Transportation management system
Local authority transport teams are tackling a number of challenges when it comes to home to school transportation; from an increased population needing to access the service, rising costs, limited budgets and specialists requirements for SEN transport users, councils are under pressure to provide a quality service.
Our transport management system facilitates the procurement and ongoing management of transport routes and providers within a single platform. The cloud-based system gives full visibility of your marketplace and bespoke services, allowing procurement teams to assign dedicated routes and providers for any SEN transport requirements, giving teams confidence and clarity.
Not only can the system support significant cost savings, it also ensures every user travelling is placed with an eligible provider and the vehicle is appropriate for the user’s needs. The system also facilitates better communication with suppliers, improving local relationships and community services.
Transportation management system statistics
Find out how Access Adam Transport Commissioning Solution made a difference for local authority transport.
Increased competition average bids per route
Access Adam Transport Commissioning Solution helped increase competition from 4.5 to 14.4 average bids per route.
Decrease in average cost per child
Access Adam Transport Commissioning Solution helped reduce the average cost per child from £9.9K to $7.7K.
Increase in provider engagement
Helped improve provider engagement from 17 to 30 providers actively bidding on routes.
Fulfilled routes
Sutton fulfilled 79% of all routes tendered by Sutton based providers.
Why use a transport management system?
The Access Adam Transport Solution has been built by staff who truly understand the challenges of supplying transport services. We work in partnership to support your goals including provider management, green initiatives and improving local relationships.
- Streamline your process within a single workflow to improve efficiency and effectiveness of transport placements.
- Use the system to set specific SEN transport requirements and ensure all providers are 100% compliant.
- Built in intermissions for school terms and holidays so your teams can accurately prepare for the school year.
- Actively engage with your transport market. We regularly add new and approved suppliers to deliver a significant, accredited supply base, providing you with more choice.
- System integrations, supported by intelligent reporting. Ensure you are connected to internal systems and departments, allowing for more accurate forecasting to inform future decision making.
- Incorporate existing procurement methods or establish a new framework.
- Be confident with guaranteed data security and sharing capabilities with other organisations at a local level.
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Key benefits of the transport commissioning solution:
- Saving time and keeping prices low: The flexibility of the system has allowed our customers on average to save 10% and receive submissions within 4 hours.
- Increase competition in the marketplace: By actively engaging with your transport market, new and approved suppliers can be added regularly via a seamless onboarding process. Our customers on average benefit from a 50% increase in supply.
- Automatic invoicing and payment: Delivering 100% invoice accuracy and ability to pay providers automatically within the system, helping to improve cash flow for local providers.
- Grow responses: Access requests from anywhere and in real-time, allowing you to react quickly and ensure consistency for SEN users.
- Provider insights and reporting: Intelligent reporting informs future decision making activities, creating a stronger, more transparent process.
- Collaboration: Ability for shared supply chain across local authorities and regions, great for out of area school placements for SEN users.
Milton Keynes Council
In 2017, Milton Keynes Council (MKC) partnered with Access adam to launch a solution for managing the council’s home-to-school transport provision; the aim was to improve service standards and make meaningful financial savings for the council.
The project was a big success and demonstrated quick and measurable results. This led MKC to expand their relationship with adam into other areas of the council’s service, including using the adam solution to manage home care activity within Adult Social Services.
Explore our Solutions
Education Management
The Access suite of flexible Education Management solutions address the specific challenges facing education specialists working within local authorities and education providers.
From managing school admissions and transfers to 30-hour funded childcare and vital family information, we provide a well-proven solution, created in collaboration with education and safeguarding experts.
Housing
We offer the only Temporary Accommodation end-to-end solution, which manages your entire workflow in a single place; from provider onboarding, property management, contracting to invoicing and payment. Our live tracking and availability tools allow you to make compliant placements efficiently and improve the overall quality of local providers. Discover how our solution is engaging both temporary and private housing for long term stability, and improving quality of placements for families and individuals.
Procurement
Our solution facilitates the commissioning of services for the public sector, including from an existing supply chain or a new procurement contract. We can help find the provider you need, ensuring full compliance and quality, whether you are completing a construction project, landscaping requirements or require a local provider, we’re here to help.
Social Care
Our digital solution supports local authorities to achieve greater performance and improve the quality of local social care services. Streamline processes quickly and efficiently, allowing you to respond faster to urgent care placements. With automated regulatory compliance built into the system, you can be reassured that each provider meets the individual’s requirements, creating a fair and high quality marketplace. Start growing your provider market today.
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Why is rural home-to-school transport increasing costs to councils?
Councils across the UK have been facing increasing pressure to deliver home-to-school transportation services to local areas. And spending is set to rise further each year. This can be attributed to a number of factors including the driver shortage, rising fuel costs, demand on the service, covid restrictions and stretched budgets.
YPO commissioning solutions: The adam partnership
YPO, owned by 13 local authorities, supplies products and services to the public sector including councils, schools, charities, care homes, emergency services and more. Its aim is to provide trusted suppliers who understand the challenges faced in the public sector and provide high quality, cost-effective services.
What does the driver shortage mean for SEN transport?
In September 2021 the UK government reported a driver shortage which has continued to affect supply chains across the country, including the delivery of home to school transport. Councils managing special educational needs (SEN) transport services have faced a further decrease in suppliers, increased costs and difficulty providing a consistent level of service, on top of an ever-growing demand.
