Real-time verification
Every transaction witnessed, timestamped and locked at the moment of spend - not reconstructed at month-end.
Live inside a working UK care provider
Resident finance, safeguarding, and oversight - one platform, running inside real care.
Already in daily use and refined one shift at a time - the first tool that treats a resident's personal finances with the same rigour as a safeguarding referral.
Rooted in 50 years of care-sector experience. Built by carers, for carers.
How it works, in practice
Witnessed as it happens. Not reconstructed at month-end.
Every transaction is witnessed, challenged and evidenced the moment it happens. By the time an inspector asks, the answer is already waiting.
Exception reporting
Anomalies, missing receipts and out-of-pattern spends surface automatically. Managers see what needs attention, not what doesn’t.
Audit-ready by default
Every action is its own evidence bundle. Inspection-ready exports in one click - any site, any day of the year.
Two screens, one source of truth
Built for the office and the living room.
Managers run the portal on a desk. Carers use the app on shift, one-handed, in the moment. Every action in either place lands in the same ledger, in the same second.
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The portal
For owners, managers and team leaders
One live view of every resident, every site, every transaction. Exceptions surface at the top. Audit exports are one click away.
The app
For carers, on shift
Sign off in seconds - every entry filed and totalled as it's added, so honest mistakes and missed receipts don't slip through.
Three things, treated as one system.
Most care providers run finance, safeguarding, and staff oversight in three different places. Studio Laurie joins them up.
Finance at the point of care
Cash, card, and direct debit - every transaction captured at the moment of spend, with receipt, category, balance, and full audit trail. One ledger for every way a resident’s money moves.
Safeguarding built in
Financial-abuse indicators, escalation paths, and a CQC-ready policy pack ship with the platform. Staff are trained and signed off inside the same tool that does the work.
Oversight by default
Role-based access, tenant isolation, breach workflows, and a manager dashboard that surfaces what needs attention - so owners and registered managers see the whole operation at a glance.
The problem we can't ignore
33,000+
concluded safeguarding enquiries in England concerned financial or material abuse in 2024–25 - one of the most commonly reported categories of recorded harm in adult social care.
Resident finances in UK care are still typically tracked on paper forms and cashbox spreadsheets. Studio Laurie runs today inside a working UK care provider, giving managers a finance system where every transaction has a receipt, a category, and a named staff member attached - so the invisible becomes visible.
Source: NHS England Safeguarding Adults Collection, 2024–25.
Introducing the Appointee Portal
The hardest problem in care, solved in a single login.
A companion portal working alongside the Studio Laurie Finance Ledger, for the parents, deputies and DWP appointees who share responsibility for a resident's financial life.
The people most at risk of financial abuse in adult social care are the ones least able to speak for themselves - and the ones whose families have had the least visibility. The Appointee Portal changes that on day one.
Picture a Tuesday morning
A mum opens the appointee portal on her phone and sees, in live colour, every penny her son has spent this week - the category, the receipt, the staff member who signed it off. He still chooses. He still lives his own life. She just sees it.
For decades, parents and deputies of adults in supported living have had to trust and wait. Quarterly paper statements. Unanswered phone calls. Receipts taped into folders. The Appointee Portal flips the power dynamic in a single login - preserving the independence the resident has earned, while giving the people who love them the visibility to spot risk before it becomes harm.
This is least-restrictive practice made practical - the principle social-care law rests on, finally turned into software. The resident keeps full autonomy over their own money. The people legally responsible for them keep full visibility. Nobody has to choose between the two.
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Read-only by design
Appointees see, they don’t edit. No accidental changes, ever.
Receipt-by-receipt
Every transaction carries its receipt, category, and named staff member.
Audit-ready always
PDF statements on demand. Every view logged. Every access traceable.
Interests aligned
Family, care team, and regulator see the same live data at the same time.
No other care-sector finance tool in the UK puts live, read-only financial visibility directly in the hands of families and appointees. It turns every day into an audit day - without anyone needing to act differently.
Compliance-ready, from day one.
Every organisation on Studio Laurie launches with a baseline safeguarding policy, a staff quick reference, and a competency sign-off form - so new staff can be trained, assessed, and filed on their first shift.
Use the baseline as-is, edit it to match your organisation's voice, or run it alongside your own in-house policies. Either way, you are meeting the minimum standards expected by CQC, the Care Act 2014, and UK GDPR.
What ships in the box
- Resident and household finance ledgers covering cash, card, and direct debit - every movement, one place
- Daily balance checks, weekly team-leader audits, monthly manager audits
- Role-based access (Owner, Manager, Team Leader, Staff)
- Staff competency assessments and training matrix
- Baseline safeguarding policy and quick reference (Word-editable)
- AI-assisted receipt scanning - always human-reviewed
- Organisation-isolated data, UK-hosted in London, built on UK GDPR principles
Want to see it in action?
Studio Laurie is already live inside a working UK care provider and is now opening up to its first external partner organisations. If you are a supported living or domiciliary provider and would like an early look, drop us a line.
Email hello@studiolaurie.co.uk