Practice tools

Tools to support innovation planning and review in social care

  • System conditions for ethical and effective innovation. This pack provides a range of tools and how to use them
  • You can also download these three outline tools separately, but will need the guidance of the above pack:  Diamond 9 tool for how to explore current conditions in local systems to understand  strengths and areas for development; Four Quadrants tool - helps you uncover wider system influences on innovation to help anticipate and manage their effects; Roadmap tool - supports you in plannig priority areas of action to create local system conditions conducive to innovation.
  • A guiding framework  to support planning through the Stages of Innovation in children’s social care. 
  • PEISC tool: offers principles and reflective questions for Promoting Ethical Innovation in Social Care.  
  • DEISC tool: guidance on Doing Ethical Innovation in Social Care to help ensure  practice and service innovations are ethically appropriate as well as practically feasible. 
  • Ecocyles practice tool: questions for planning and reflection when whole-systems innovation encounters unexpected obstacles and progress is compromised.

Participation tools

This is a set of practice tools to support professionals in: a) running consultation workshops with young people and b) running training sessions with professionals to improve practice in safeguarding panels: participatory practice tools.

Trauma-informed practice tools