Archive for August, 2008
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
by Gillian Gillanders
Giving lead professionals budgets may be one way of better meeting the needs of children and young people with additional needs. OPM has been supporting the budget-holding lead professional pilots for children with additional needs. So far, these budgets have been used to make purchases as diverse as ...
Posted in health and social care, children's services, local government | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
by Hannah Roscoe
Understanding the experience of disadvantaged groups is vital to making policy that will successfully tackle disadvantage and reduce inequality. But does the power of people’s experiences get ‘lost in translation’ from research to report? Our recent research for the National Consumer Council suggested that the use of video ...
Posted in stakeholder engagement, research, evaluation | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
By Stefan Cantore
Surgeon, psychiatrist, manager, GP – bringing together a diverse set of professionals can be a hugely rewarding learning experience. But combining such group development with one-to-one approaches can lead to results that are greater than the sum of the parts. OPM chose to use a mix of techniques ...
Posted in management development, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
What if you could get a group of public servants in a room and help them to innovate? Better still, what if you could have a lot of fun doing it? OPM is experimenting with the idea that we can do both these things. By combining the latest evidence with ...
Posted in local government | 3 Comments »