The potential of an organisational improvement framework to facilitate sharing of practice

This report describes a project to explore the potential of the Service Children’s Progression Alliance Thriving Lives Toolkit to promote and facilitate collaboration and practice-sharing between schools. The project intended to build a qualitative picture of how investment in frameworks such as this might foster collaboration and practice-sharing between stakeholders. While the research itself was severely constrained by the Covid-19 pandemic, the findings indicate a number of key learning points for the deployment of resources such as the Thriving Lives Toolkit. These include: designing interventions that support schools’ key priorities, especially where these are common to schools; locating interventions in broader strategies for engaging schools; promoting resources within existing networks; and ensuring dedicated attention and resources towards implementing such resources.