The Environment
• Partnership - Collaboration / Integration with statutory and voluntary sectors
• The creation of a service delivery structure that instead of being based on history and availability, has been re-organised around the needs of children and families and accessibility.
• Appropriate systems to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the work. For example, targets: who writes them?, what is the purpose behind them and how is their attainment managed? I.e., How can targets be used helpfully as opposed to acting as diversions to the effectiveness and quality of the service?
• The variations in socio-political contexts across Europe have to be taken into account when using any aspect of this Framework.
• The Media – whether they are manipulative or responsible.
• Social capital – ‘Social capital is a set of attitudes and mental dispositions that favour co-operation in society, and… equals the spirit of community.’
Social Capital Foundation
‘A dominance of high bonding horizontal social capital at the expense of vertical integration may be pathological in consequence’
Kwame McKenzie
How do we use these concepts within the contexts of: the individual, the family, the wider community, the national and international communities, in partnership with other statutory and voluntary agencies?
Without a supportive environment most innovation will eventually retreat into habitual behaviour.