The Transformation and Innovation Exchange (TIEx) self-assessment tool provides a comprehensive overview of your organisation's performance across the characteristics of a high functioning local authority. It supports with identifying areas to focus and to prioritise and has an extensive library of tailored resources to support you at every stage of the transformation journey.
- Learning method: self-assessment
- Duration: 60 minutes reading time
TIEx provides a comprehensive overview of your organisation's performance across the critical success factors and characteristics of a high functioning local authority.
The tool invites a response to a number of statements in areas identified as hallmarks of an effective council. These are:
- managing income managing expenditure
- use of data and intelligence, digital and technology procurement and commissioning
- leadership and management organisational approach to change getting the best from staff.
Transformation Innovation Exchange (TIEx) | Local Government Association
This transformation capability framework has been created with councils, for councils. It sets out ‘what good looks like’ to enable councils of all sizes and types to identify and address the capabilities that they need to have in place to deliver sustainable and effective transformation.
- Learning method: guide
- Duration: 60 minutes reading time
Middle leaders (and their teams) can use this framework to:
- learn about the essential capabilities needed to deliver transformation in local government
- understand the skills, knowledge and behaviours needed depending on the type of transformation being delivered
- identify and test that they have the right capabilities in place to support planned transformation programmes and projects
- assess current capability levels to support employee development and to ensure effective resourcing
- identify capability gaps in their teams and enable decisions to be made about resourcing and development
- forecast organisational workforce needs, to make sure they have the right skills, knowledge, and behaviours in place to achieve their aims.
Transformation Capability Framework | Local Government Association
For the past five years, the supporting adult social care innovation project team has been investigating the process of innovating in adult social care. Led by the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the project aims to understand how we can accelerate the scaling and spread of innovations.
- Learning method: webinar
- Duration: one hour
This open access webinar, developed in partnership with Research in Practice, shares findings from the project, touching on systems innovations, and how to adopt frugal innovation effectively. In the session, Research in Practice share lessons from five years of research into innovation in adult social care, touching on questions of systems innovations, and how to adopt frugal innovation effectively. The webinar is aimed at people working in local authorities, including practitioners and those in commissioning, transformation and managerial roles.
Empowering innovation in adult social care | Research in Practice
This long read outlines what evidence says should be in a national vision for social care.
The Kings Fund have resisted the temptation to create a vision of a perfect social care system because this too often creates expectations that cannot realistically be met. In policy, it may sometimes be worthwhile to think the unthinkable but there is no value in arguing for the undoable. What is needed instead is an ambitious but attainable vision for the social care system.
- Learning method: report
- Duration: 25 minutes reading time
The long read describes a ‘radically realistic’ vision for adult social care. Radical because it involves significant change and improvement that would mean many more people receiving better adult social care. Realistic because it does not rely on wide changes to be implemented in society; it does not expect more of individuals, families or communities (though it does acknowledge and draw heavily on them), and it requires no structural overhaul of how social care is commissioned or delivered.
A ‘Radically Realistic’ Vision for Adult Social Care | The King's Fund
The Accelerating Reform Fund (ARF) is an initiative launched to enhance the quality, accessibility, and sustainability of adult social care in England. The fund will focus specifically on innovation and scaling, addressing key challenges through targeted investments in digital tools, local networks, unpaid carer support, and social prescribing. In this blog, Access explores four of the fund’s strategic priorities that are poised to transform the landscape of adult social care.
- Learning method: blog
- Duration: 10 - 15 minutes read
The ARF prioritises providing individuals with greater autonomy in managing their care through digital tools. These innovations aims to ensure people who draw on care and support can communicate their preferences and self-direct their support, creating a more person-centred care system.
Innovative tools can support people to have better access to up-to-date, relevant information and advice and help people feel supported to make informed decisions about the support that suits them. Research by IMPACT found that in addition to accessible information, visual tools can also help people understand how their support package is designed and how their personal budget is being spent.
Accelerating Reform Fund 2024–2025
The Roffey Park approach to change and transformation, developed through real-world experience of delivering change and transformation projects across the public, private and third sectors is:
- participative, inclusive, collaborative co-design
- design and implementation combined resulting in quality solutions and the feeling of change being ‘done with’ rather than ‘done to’
- a diagonal cross-section of employees and stakeholders across the organisational ecosystem
- structured but leaves space for the psychological impact of change.
- Learning method: training course
- Duration: this course is one and a half days made up of three half day modules. All virtual half-day sessions run from 9:30am until 13:00 UK time
- Cost: £995 + VAT
You will learn more about:
- exploring the strategic drivers of change
- readiness for change
- the necessary conditions for change
- ways to design change to be inclusive and sustainable
- methods to co-create change.
Change and transformation management in practice
