What we offer
End-to-end consultancy across social care finance and regulated services. Expert implementation of ContrOCC, Liquidlogic LAS and Civica Cx — every engagement bespoke to your authority.
Data migration stretches much further than writing extraction, transform and load scripts — it requires close collaboration with your organisation to ensure your needs are met in the new system.
We assist with data cleansing, business process remapping and configuration design as part of our migration service. Regardless of your legacy or target system, we ensure your new platform hits the ground running with data structures that fit your desired processes. Drawing on experience of nearly 100 system configurations, we know what works — and what doesn't.
We have direct experience migrating from legacy systems including Frameworki, Abacus, CareFirst, SWIFT and others — covering virtually every platform encountered in UK local authorities. Whatever you are moving from, we will ensure no data is lost and all historical records are correctly mapped to your new system.
Testing is one of the areas local authorities struggle most with during projects. Poor testing can result in a failed project and years of financial impact in person time and legacy system maintenance.
Our testing service ensures the right people are focused on the areas they know best, delivering full coverage of functional, end-to-end and migration data reconciliation testing. We draw up test plans suited to your organisation and provide expert guidance throughout — so when you go live, your payments and charges will be correct.
As a precursor to any transformation project, understanding your organisational needs is essential. Our business analysis service evaluates your system configuration alongside existing business processes to identify areas for improvement.
With budget cuts now the norm, efficiency improvements are essential to maintaining high-quality services for service users. All findings are fully documented and can feed directly into a transformation project — whether run by us or another project team.
Social care finance implementation projects are hard and full of pitfalls. Combining Prince2 principles with our combined experience of implementing systems such as ContrOCC, we guide your organisation to a successful implementation.
Whether your project involves a full end-to-end implementation, a phase 2 rollout or a single module, we ensure your deadlines and budget are met. We believe in hands-on project management — we won't sit behind a desk and manage plans; we'll be in the thick of it, driving from the front.
With changes in technology, government legislation and budget constraints, change is inevitable. We guide your transformation projects to ensure original goals are realised — whether that means efficiency improvements or better services for your citizens.
People can be resistant to change, and ensuring stakeholder engagement is key to any project. By highlighting the benefits to individual stakeholders as well as the business as a whole, we drive your transformation plans forward — on time and on budget.
SiKol provides expert implementation and configuration services across the platforms most commonly used by UK local authorities. Whether you are deploying a new system, reconfiguring an existing one, or migrating to a different platform entirely, we bring hands-on knowledge that only comes from nearly 100 real-world implementations.
Simon's foundational specialism — developed at Oxford Computer Consultants and covering all variants (Adults, Childrens, all optional modules). Implementation, configuration and upgrade expertise.
Expert-level knowledge of the Liquidlogic Adults System — covering configuration, implementation, data migration into LAS, and user training for social care finance teams.
Implementation and configuration of Civica Cx for regulated services functions including Trading Standards, Housing and Environmental services. End-to-end delivery from requirements through to go-live.
Beyond consultancy, SiKol develops custom tools and interfaces specifically designed for local authority social care finance systems. Our software is built by people who understand the domain — which means it fits your environment from day one, not after months of configuration.
Products in active deployment include ReportGate — a reporting platform running at approximately 20 local authorities — and a bespoke interface conversion and compression tool developed for Sefton Council.
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