Communities of Practice for Public Service

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• Apply to join Gloucestershire Private Sector Housing Group Started: Oct 2009 | 33 members
  Lead organisation: The districts of Gloucestershire
  Lead facilitator: David Steels

  The collaborative working community for improvement in delivery of all aspects of private sector housing regulation in Gloucestershire

• Join Happiness, wellbeing and emotional resilience Started: Jun 2009 | 755 members
  Lead organisation: LG Group
  Lead facilitator: Adrian Barker

  This community is to promote discussion and sharing on wellbeing or happiness. It will share the lessons from the Local Wellbeing Project and the work of others and promote debate more generally.

• Apply to join Havering Financial Inclusion Project Started: Aug 2011 | 22 members
  Lead organisation: London Borough of Havering
  Lead facilitator: Martha Lawton

  A group of committed individuals and organisations dedicated to driving forward financial inclusion in the London Borough of Havering.

• Apply to join Homelessness - Policy, Practice and Prevention: Scotland Started: Jul 2011 | 170 members | This community has 1 sub-community
  Lead organisation: Scottish Council for Single Homeless
  Lead facilitator: Nick Harleigh-Bell

  A welcoming community to facilitate exchange of information and promotion of good practice across sectors for all working in the fields of housing and homelessness. Contact Nick Bell (Nick@scsh.org.uk) for any enquiries.

• Apply to join Improvement Service Research Started: Nov 2010 | 46 members
  Lead organisation: Improvement Service
  Lead facilitator: Mike McLean

  Private team space for Improvement Service research team.

• Join International Development and Local Government Started: Oct 2009 | 246 members
  Lead organisation: LG Group
  Lead facilitator: Cecillia Makonyola

  This community aims to help improve understanding of international development issues, how local government contributes and the benefits that are brought to communities both at home and overseas.

• Apply to join Kent Development Workers Network Started: Aug 2009 | 28 members | This community has 2 sub-communities
  Lead organisation: Voluntary Action Within Kent
  Lead facilitator: Elizabeth James

  This site is for Development Workers in the statutory and voluntary sectors in Kent to exchange views, information and intelligence about good practice relating to their role.

• Apply to join LASE Network - Local Authorities and Social Exclusion Started: May 2009 | 24 members
  Lead organisation: Local Government Centre, Warwick Business School
  Lead facilitator: Irene Chinnock

  This community is open to the Warwick Consortium / LASE partners. LASE is a national network of local authorities concerned about Social Exclusion and how to best tackle it. LASE is part of the Warwick Consortium, a partnership between the University of Warwick and UK local authorities.

• Apply to join LG Improvement & Development Healthy Communities Team CoP (Internal LGID team members only) Started: Aug 2007 | 23 members
  Lead organisation: LG Group
  Lead facilitator: Tess Gool

  The purpose of the LGID Healthy Communities Team CoP is to act as a forum for the healthy communities team to utilise to discuss: a) the demands, needs and requirements of the Healthy Communities team programme for the two-year duration period b) to bring up issues around health inprovement and health inequalities that are the mainstay of what our programme is about c) to horizon scan the public agenda, events, journals and papers we may need to know about to explore the possibility of communicating via different technology, such as the examples given here: events calendar, document library, wiki and blog (online personal diary).

• Apply to join London Demography Forum Started: Nov 2009 | 152 members
  Lead organisation:
  Lead facilitator: Baljit Bains

  The forum primarily exists to coordinate activities and to share knowledge relating to demographic information, research and statistics (related to London) for local and regional government bodies within Greater London, and partner organisations where appropriate.

• Apply to join London Social Exclusion Data Forum Started: Jan 2010 | 105 members
  Lead organisation:
  Lead facilitator: Richard Walker

  An online community for the exchange of ideas and expertise in the field of social exclusion data for London.

• Apply to join Loxwood Parish Council Started: Jun 2011 | 11 members | This community has 4 sub-communities
  Lead organisation: Loxwood Parish Council
  Lead facilitator: Jenny Hartley

  This is a Parish Council site for Members of the Parish Council to communicate to one another. Contact : Jenny Hartley (Clerk) on 07814788407 or loxwood@pcouncil.co.uk.

• Apply to join Making Research Count @ King's College London (MRC@KCL) Started: Jan 2011 | 28 members
  Lead organisation: Making Research Count, King's College London
  Lead facilitator: Janet Noble

  An online community for practitioners and managers in Children and Adult Services in the statutory and voluntary sector.

• Apply to join NCC Central Policy Unit Started: Oct 2010 | 70 members
  Lead organisation: Newcastle City Council
  Lead facilitator: Kevin Richardson

  This CoP will provide an online forum for local government officers working in or with the Central Policy Unit at Newcastle City Council to: share information more effectively, develop reports and other Council documents collaboratively, and share ideas for developmental activity.

• Apply to join National Graduate Development Programme Started: Jan 2008 | 493 members | This community has 4 sub-communities
  Lead organisation: LG Group
  Lead facilitator: Ami Beeton

  This community is for all NMT’s currently on the ngdp and alumni who have completed the ngdp. The community allows members to share knowledge, information and experience.