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INStability For Children Starts With A Stable Rota.
Workforce management for children's residential care — rotas that keep homes safely and consistently staffed, with records ready for Ofsted and placing authorities.
Rotas That Protect Consistency
For children in residential care, who walks through the door matters deeply. Rotas must hold safe staffing levels, balance experience across shifts, and keep familiar faces present — through waking nights, sleep-ins, and school runs.
Tommy keeps your rota steady. Set the cover each home and shift needs, assign residential workers directly or publish open shifts for qualified staff, and use skill requirements — safeguarding training, therapeutic models, driving — per shift.
Rules based shift trading with automatic or manual approvals fills gaps from your own team, protecting consistency for the children.
Employee Scheduling
Handover That Keeps The Home Joined Up
Tommy Messaging keeps handovers, rota changes, and home updates in one clear place — no personal numbers shared — with notifications that follow each worker’s rota.
MessagingManage your rosters from anywhere
Update rosters and timesheets on the go. Enable your care team
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Staffing Evidence Ready For Inspection
Ofsted inspections and placing authority reviews both ask how you assure staffing. Tommy's time clock with selfie verification captures every shift — including sleep-ins — as it happens.
Clock in/out questions capture handover notes or safeguarding flags while timesheets build themselves.
Approved hours flow straight to payroll, keeping staffing evidence and cost-per-home clean.
Time & Attendance
Take control with an agile employee app platform
Tommy empowers children's social care providers to adapt quickly — new homes, changing regulations, workforce pressure. Adjust rota rules, timesheets, and payroll integrations with low implementation risk.
Our customers use Tommy to keep homes stable and safe, back their residential workers, and simplify running children’s services.
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