Q: How should we go about sharing good practice in children's services?
Peter Lewis: Sometimes good practice gets missed because people don't know what it looks like, so tell them.
Start by setting up a forum where people can share good practice. Managers should be able to pick up examples in supervision and encourage people to bring them forward. Get every team to showcase good work that you can share and record as part of your good practice evidence for Ofsted.
Celebrate quality work being done - from a direct email or hand-written letter to a write-up in your in-house newsletter or magazine.
Capture all of this in your regular briefing to staff and ensure it isn't just social care staff who get the message. Send it to all children's services, schools, partners, fellow directors and elected members, and ask them to share their examples too.
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