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Validated local practice examples

C4EO recognises that not all useful knowledge about ‘what works’ and why, is to be found in research reports and papers. We are therefore keen to hear about practice that is leading to significantly improved outcomes for children, young people and their families.

C4EO will incorporate validated local practice examples into its full reviews on ‘what works’, which will be shared with other decision-makers in the children’s services field. We will also include them as a special body of evidence on this website. To be validated, practice examples need to be supported by some evidence which shows the outcomes and changes that have been achieved.

C4EO is seeking examples of effective practice across all eight themes, but is currently looking for particular examples for the following themes:

• Vulnerable (Looked After) Children
• Vulnerable (Looked After) Children special call on local area early intervention strategies (36Kb PDF file, 3 pages)
• Schools and Communities
• Schools and Communities special call on local area school commissioning arrangements (33Kb PDF file, 3 pages)
• Youth

C4EO continues to welcome positive examples of good practice outside these dates – and across all eight themes - but these are the deadlines for examples to be considered for inclusion in the Knowledge Reviews.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact C4EOTeam@nfer.ac.uk.

How do I submit an example of effective practice?

If you would like to submit your example of effective local practice, please signup to the C4EO website if you haven't already. Once you have a C4EO account you will need to login and complete the local practice online submission form.

Alternatively you can download a copy of the local practice submission form (77Kb Word file, 6 pages) and send to C4EOTeam@NFER.ac.uk.

Want to know more?

Further information about validated local practice (87Kb Word file, 3 pages) and guidance on how to complete the submission form and the validation process (47Kb PDF file, 4 pages) is also available.

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Communities of Practice

Introduction

Early Years Communities of Practice website

A Community of Practice (CoP) is a network of individuals with common problems or interests who get together and explore ways of working to identify common solutions and share good practice and ideas.

C4EO uses the I&DEA (Improvement and Development Agency) Communities of Practice website to support a community based around specific topics.

It is a freely accessible resource that is supported by collaboration tools that encourage knowledge sharing and learning from each others' experiences.

The benefits of CoPs lie in providing a collaborative environment that connects people to other people, information and knowledge. Specifically CoPs can:

• encourage the development and sharing of new ideas and strategies
• support faster problem-solving
• cut down on the duplication of effort
• provide potentially endless access to expertise

The Community of Practice includes the following tools:

• Forum - for having discussions with other members of your community.
• Events - a place for you to share and publish events.
• Library - a collection of items, such as documents, images, slides and other files, shared by community members.  Any member of the community can add to the library.
• Other tools include Wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and email alerts. (C4EO to decide if they want to use these)

For further help and information view the Communities of Practice FAQs.