What can be learned from this project?
• Various methods and activities are being planned to disseminate learning locally and regionally, including online resources and a website, published materials, tool kits, networks, seminars and training sessions. Best practice will be used to highlight the issues each LAA is addressing and how local services and partnerships are allowing the community to be best served.
• However, questions were asked about broader dissemination processes. It was suggested that there has been a lack of guidance in this respect from the ASC, and that the RCEs as a group were not sure how their projects would feed into the work of the ASC, or how the ASC would utilise and disseminate the learning which was being achieved at the local and regional levels.
• There are also issues about fragmentation across the Learning Labs. It is felt that there is a lack of guidance from ASC, and that knowledge is not shared as fully as it might be. Some RCEs were more proactive that others in this respect, although it was suggested that this might be the result of limited staffing, or of staff changes.
• There were issues around the project development and bidding process with the ASC. The project was originally designed over a two-year period, but this was cut to one year and has impacted on its implementation.
Topics associated with this project
East Midlands, Partnership working, Skills, Training