How Shared Perspectives can be used

Shared Perspectives can be used in many different ways and contexts. Examples include:

• Shape commissioning strategies
• Coproduce plans designed to radically disrupt the status quo
• Improve choice and control for people with a Personal Health Budget
• Improve day services for people with a learning disability 
• Join up strategies across directorates in areas like prevention  
• Improve the way money can flow to people so that self-directed support becomes real 

Shared Perspectives: the process

Whatever the focus of the change, the approach is likely to include some or all of the following:

Exploring and learning – understanding the context, challenges and opportunities

• Having conversations to learn about the systems, processes and culture that underpin care, health or wellbeing approaches in a locality.
• Exploring what is working well and reflecting on the barriers and blockages to progress
• Listening to people, practitioners and partners at all levels 
• Understanding national, regional and local legislation 
• Analysing the results and reporting and/or making recommendations for action

Developing and shepherding a joint action plan for local change

• Convening and facilitating a Change Group involving diverse stakeholders from many sectors including public sector, VSCE and wider community.
• Producing or coproducing a shared action plan for system and culture change and agreeing it locally.
• Driving the implementation of this action plan and holding others to account.

Supporting local system and culture change

• Designing and delivering workshops and networking events.
• Producing and sharing information, including collated stories of good practice.
• Producing reports – presenting, advocating and challenging people at all levels in a locality to encourage brave and creative strategic and operational action.
• Acting as a critical friend.
• Offering local leads the opportunity to join a wider national or regional peer network. Using this network, help people develop stronger, more personalised local practice.

We deliver Shared Perspectives using a consultancy approach involving a senior project manager and more local project workers. We have a strong partnership approach, learning from and building on what already works. The focus of the work to be undertaken together with the scale and scope of activity governs the duration of a Shared Perspectives project and its cost.

Interested in Shared Perspectives?

If you’re interested to discuss taking a Shared Perspectives approach, email: info@communitycatalysts.co.uk