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I guess every Trust has its CYPP on a website. Has anyone gone further and actually designed their CYPP as a website?
Our vision in Luton is to develop a short, readable and engaging hard copy CYPP document (in contrast to our current long, comprehensive and monochrome CYPP) allied to a website that becomes the comprehensive and dynamic CYPP that partners access and use -- eg it will incorporate detailed action plans for CYPP priorities; with updates on progress; performance reporting etc. In this way the CYPP refresh actually happens on an ongoing basis.
Before we invent this particular wheel we're wondering whether anyone else has attempted this....?
Hi William
I'm very interested in speaking with you about this.
Through the development of the self-analysis and planning exercise and the Individual Skills Assessment framework, we have build a back-end tool which essentially enables us to design a questionnaire (incorporating some design features which can be applied generically) as well a model to assign editing and viewing permissions to members of the same children's trust. The backend also has tracking and analysis tools which make reporting alot easier.
Depending on the exact nature of the CYPP this may be an option. We also have the Peer Review tool (aka Wiki) which may also come in handy in the process of online collaboration on content.
Please do feel free to get in touch if any of this sounds interesting and you would like to explore further.
Best wishes,
Murad Kemal
CSP
Commissioning Support Programme | 99 Waterloo Road | London SE1 8XP T: 020 7960 2895 M: 07904 586 369 E: murad.kemal@commissioningsupport.org.uk W: www.commissioningsupport.org.uk
Thanks for the offer -- I think you'd need to speak to someone here who's got more technical understanding than me of this. I need to check out with colleagues, and we'll get back to you if this sounds helpful.
Hi Murad
I would be very interested in talking to you about this, both in terms of the CYPP for Bromley, and also our commissioning toolkit.
I have added a little pilot page to 'Peer Review Content' page to see how that goes.
Can we meet up for a chat on this?
Michael
London Borough of Bromley/Bromley Children and Young People Truste: michael.watts@bromley.gov.uk
Hi Michael
Thanks, I'd very much like to learn more about your requirements in more detail. Are you free anytime this week? I'd be glad to come to Bromley to meet you there or alternatively you are more than welcome to pay us a visit at the CSP office in Waterloo.
Many thanks
Murad
Hey William
This sounds like a fantastic idea - turning the Children and Young People's plans into far more into living breathing things - rather than static documents.
It's an idea we explored a very little bit from one direction with the Hear by Right website a couple of years back, when we created a tool to turn Word based 'Map & Plan' templates on organisation's participation strategies into an online matrix that could be navigated any manipulated. (See for example, the page showing all the mapping and planning different organisations have done against a given standard in hear by right here and then click through to an organisation to be able to navigate just their own strategy & plan...). We've thought about, but not yet implemented, ways that the plan itself can then send reminders to people about milestones they set, or could have room for young people to give their own feedback on the services the plan talks about.
On a more practical level for getting a CYPP plan to be an online document - it strikes me there are three routes technically:
(1) A Wiki - which can have a restricted set of editors able to update and revise the plan, whilst past revisions are kept available, and people can subscribe to get updates when changes to given sections are made. Tools like dokuwiki could make this into a surprisingly simple task.
(2) A blog - may be suited for publishing a CYPP and getting feedback and dialogue around it element by element, with only occasional updates to the content. Central government have been explore this route a lot with recent green papers and policies - making use of Steph Gray's 'Commentariat' theme for Wordpress blog. Available open source here.
(3) Strategy ML - if you wanted to get quite technical about it - and think about the semantic web - then it may be worth taking a look at Strategy Markup Language - a currently emerging way of marking up strategy documents to allow digital links to be more easily made between them. You can read more on Strategy ML here.
There are also a number of strategy performance management systems out there which effectively allow strategies & plans to be digitised and measured against - and creating a public face for those systems on the web would be very much possible. The one I've seen quite a bit of is Gaisoft's strategy, performance and networking platform (the web description doesn't do it justice...)
With all these approaches - some attention is needed to how they work for young people - and how they would be accessible both for young people to access and explore a CYPP - and to feedback on a CYPP - but overall the possibilities opened up by really going digital with a CYPP are very exciting.
Would be really happy to offer support to the inventing of this wheel, or at least the mixing up of the different ingredients to make it work if the conclusion is that the ideal solution isn't already out there.
