About the Good Practice Framework

The Good Practice Framework is based on these good practice principles

• Practice should be based on knowledge and evidence
• Looking at your own practice and whether it is working is part of ‘good practice’, and so the tool provides a ‘good practice journey’ for evaluating this yourself
• Good practice can be familiar, as well as innovative, work
• Innovations are ideas that have to be tested in practice and an innovation can be something that is ‘new to me’.
• Practice is the direct activity between practitioners, service users and carers. Organisational arrangements and design are important but are means to this end, not ends in themselves.
• The experience of service users and carers are essential measures of effective practice

The Good Practice Framework takes you on the stages of a good practice journey, where you can:

• describe what you want to do and why
• show that key stakeholders agree, in particular people who use care services & carers
• set out the results you want to achieve and how you will know you’ve achieved them
• describe how you have put your idea into action
• show that your methods are acceptable to your stakeholders, in particular service users & carers
• show the results
• say if you think the practice can be sustained, afforded and used elsewhere

You are able to add your good practice example at a time convenient to you, so you do not have to complete your good practice all at once. You could complete each step as the initiative is implemented, for example.

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