Improve and innovate

Work together to create change

This section will help you think about engaging with key stakeholders to work on innovation and improvement opportunities together:

• A guide for public sector, support organisations and anyone who wants to work with communities - Resourceful Communities Partnership
• Co-production - Social Care Institute for Excellence
• Developing Evidence Enriched Practice (DEEP) training (‘Magic Moments and Tragic Moments’ and ‘Most Significant Change’)*
• Knowledge base - Co-production Network for Wales
• Multisector collaboration to improve community wellbeing - Wales Centre for Public Policy
• Resourceful Communities Partnership – Co-production Network for Wales.

*These events run throughout the year. You can search our events page or contact insightcollective@socialcare.wales to find out when the next session will be held if it's not currently being advertised.

Support and lead improvement and innovation

We've grouped together some options to help you understand the models, tools and methods needed to lead improvement and innovation:

• Academi Wales (residentials, leadership development programmes, springboard for women in leadership and short courses and master classes)
• An introduction to compassionate leadership
• Audit Wales (good practice events, shared learning seminars and webinars)
• Climb programme – Dragon’s Heart Institute (dragonsheart.org)*
• Compassionate leadership
• Compassionate Leadership Hub - Gwella, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) Leadership Portal for Wales
• Digital Public Services (training courses for teams and leaders including digital transformation, agile working, user centred design, basics of user research)
• Practical approaches to managing change - Skills for care
• Tools and techniques for change: a leaders handbook - Academi Wales.

*These are opportunities that run at specific points during the year. Please check dates with providers.

Get help to write bids and develop business cases

Help secure resources (such as funding and staff time) to support improvement and innovation:

• Life Sciences Hub Wales.

Try new approaches

Find new ways of working that help advance innovation and improvement:

• About strengths-based practice
• Bevan Exemplar Programme - The Bevan Commission*
• Digital Public Services (training courses for teams and leaders including digital transformation, agile working, user centred design, basics of user research)
• Innovation coaching
• Innovation Intensive Learning Week - The Bevan Commission*
• Starting with strengths: what matters in care and support planning
• Strengths-based practice resources  
• Team Manager Development Programme
• The Small Business Research Initiative Wales (SBRI).

*These are opportunities that run at specific points during the year. Please check dates with providers.

Get help to roll out innovation and improvement

Find individuals and opportunities that can support rolling out tried and tested innovations and improvements:

• Spread and Scale Academy - Dragon’s Heart Institute.

Tell people about your work

Effective communication is important:

• to make sure there’s buy-in and support for change 
• to help us identify and overcome barriers and challenges such as resistance to change, culture, financial constraints and regulations
• to help share the learning and impact of your innovation or improvement project. 

Our project finder helps people connect and learn from each other.

You'll find information about innovative practice examples and research initiatives, including where they're happening, who’s involved, and how to find out more.