Our Services

£43.20 per hour

Our experienced team will support you to develop and write your person-centred support plan meeting all the requirements of the Local Authority or Health funder. We will support you to identify outcomes that are important to you and also how to achieve them. The service will provide:

The service will provide:

• A written person-centred Support Plan
• Full costings within your indicative budget (including comprehensive costings for employing PA’s)
• Support to identify a range of solutions to achieve your outcomes
• Support to review your plan
• All necessary liaison with the funder (Local authority / Health)
• Access to an online directory of resources that are available in your area (coming soon)

If Brokerage is required we will:

• Arrange and implement services as instructed

£43.20

Compliance check to ensure that recruitment documents, including Job Description, person Specification, Advert, Contract of Employment are all legally accurate and compliant with current Employment legislation.

£13.20 per annum

The Rowan Organsiation operates a paperless invoicing system in order to support the environment and reduce unnecessary costs. We will send customer invoices and other documents safely and securely by e-amil. If, however, you require these to be posted to you, this annual charge will be payable in advance.

£99.20 per annum

**Special Delivery option for return of documents is an additional £7.50

The Rowan Organisation can carry out an enhanced DBS disclosure on PAs on behalf of the employer.

This includes:

• Sending out DBS documentation for the potential PA to complete
• Sending out paperwork for the employer to verify the documentation sent in to support the DBS application
• Returning all verification documents directly to the applicant
• Countersigning the DBS application and forwarding it to the DBS
• Consideration of the returned disclosure and ensuring that the applicant is suitable
• Suitable applicants will be admitted to our pool of vetted staff. Both the employer and potential PA will be notified
• The right of appeal is offered to any applicant who is not deemed to be suitable
• Notifying you when a disclosure is due for renewal

DBS Online Check

£18.00 per annum

Electronic checking service for DBS applicants who are already registered with the online update service.

Set up charge – One-off fee, applicable to all new assisted bank accounts.

Assisted bank accounts can be provided to administer the use of all funds available through Personal Budgets, Direct Payments, Personal Health Budgets, and any other funding sources available to you.

Assisted bank accounts are provided on the EML platform. They provide an individual sort code and account number and will provide any number of transactions per month.

Transactions are classed as:

• The receipt of funds from any source, including DP funds and personal contributions.
• Authorised payments from accounts, including invoices, salary payments, pension payments, HMRC payments, etc.

In addition, we will:

• Keep a full record of expenditure
• Monitor income and expenditure
• Provide statements of account
• Provide online access for the funding authority and the account holder. This enables viewers to have a real-time view of all account activity and encourages further independence and control for the user, which also ensures that funding authorities can audit accounts quickly and more easily.
• Invoices and other account documents are stored on the system and can be viewed at the click of a button.

Invoicing Charge

• If required, we will produce and send one invoice per month to the funding authority, in order for package funding to be released. (Additional invoices will incur additional charges. Please contact us to discuss.)

Audit Charge

• If required, we will provide copy documentation on a quarterly basis to the funding authority, including account statements, copy invoices and receipts.

One-off set up cost of £32.40

Ongoing monthly charge of:

Up to 8 transactions per month: £24.00 (£5.54 per week)

Up to 12 transactions per month: £36.00 (£8.31 per week)

Up to 16 transactions per month: £48.00 (£11.08 per week)

More than 16 transactions per month: £60.00 (£13.85 per week)

£18.00 per card setup

Ongoing Monthly Charge of £10.80

(£2.50 per week)

Pre-Paid Cards Prepaid cards can be loaded with a specified level of funds and can be used as an alternative to cash or credit cards where there are chip and pin facilities. Only money that has been loaded onto the card can be spent so there is no overdraft facility, and it operates on a chip-and-pin basis so that funds are protected.

We will:

• Set up new cards
• Load cards with funds as directed
• Provide statements as required
• Allow transparent and immediate viewing access to approved users

Full details of how this operates are available on request.

Payroll Setup Charge of £32.40

£7.80 per Pay Slip

Duplicate payslips, if required, are £3.90 each.

Our Payroll Service can provide a weekly, fortnightly, four weekly or monthly service. To reduce the cost of the service we would recommend four weekly or calendar monthly pay periods.

Payroll Service will provide the following:

• Registration of the employer with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
• Deal with all correspondence from HMRC including Real Time Information (RTI) and end-of-year submissions
• Calculate all payments to employees as required
• Provide Payslips
• Calculate HMRC Payments
• Retain annual leave records for employees

£32.40

£32.40 per Year

£21.60

Auto Enrolment set-up , including initial Declaration of Compliance

Ongoing Auto Enrolment support.

Repeat Declaration of compliance

£43.20 per hour

Historical checks to ensure that staff have been paid at least the minimum wage for all hours worked, including sleep in shifts, in accordance with the HMRC Compliance Scheme, introduced 2018.

£10.80 per report

If your funder requires you to produce Audit Reports and you are using our Payroll Service we can produce these reports for you.