Gravitas Outcome Services CIC is a not for profit social enterprise that helps you to report on outcomes.

We have had many years of combined experience both working in the field of social care and developing systems in corporate settings. There was no grand plan behind developing this service but in true ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ style, it grew from something completely different. Gravitas as a partnership originally developed bespoke software systems for corporate clients in various industries, but as part of their ethical activities the managers also supported a local mental health charity. A key worry for them at the time was the looming personalisation agenda and impending payment by results worries. Lynn the centre manager at SPARC (Stockport Progress and Recovery Centre) explained that she felt like her worries were ‘a big multi-coloured ball of wool all tangled and messy’. From experience we knew that the best thing to do in these situations is to keep things simple. We started with ‘what are you doing and who you are doing it with?, and this remains our mantra to this day…

CORS, our case outcome recording system is what grew from this dilemma over ten years ago, and has led us to develop the comprehensive service we now provide to a variety of community organisations as a separate social enterprise while Gravitas Software Development Ltd has gone its own way with corporate clients.