Community of Practice
Better Futures adopts a pro-active, goal orientated Advantaged Thinking practice approach to working with young people, a radical shift from the historical problem-saturated, deficit focused, Leaving Care model.
BSL facilitate a quarterly Better Futures Community of Practice. These CoP events provide an opportunity for Better Futures practitioners, DFFH, expert stakeholders, and the YEAG to come together to share knowledge and expertise.
With the shared goal of providing more effective outcomes for young people transitioning from care services, this connective opportunity also allows collaboration between government, agencies, businesses and community groups, while enhancing the sector’s capacity for both practice and policy innovation, development, and design.
The CoP promotes this collaborative learning through:
- an exchange of practice-based expertise to share, refine and enhance practice
- sharing of situated or place-based knowledge and implementation learnings to build community-specific networks and resources
- establishing practice reflection and continuous improvement mechanisms
- identifying ways of working with and building partnerships across government, business and communities to improve our offer to young people
- providing opportunities for professional development
- Embedding, monitoring and evaluation processes in service delivery to inform practice and ongoing service improvement.
