Communities of Practice for Public Service

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• Join Community Hub Started: Nov 2008 | 76535 members
  Lead organisation: LG Group
  Lead facilitator: Michael Norton

  A shared space for all registered users

• Apply to join CorVu local government users group Started: Apr 2007 | 238 members
  Lead organisation:
  Lead facilitator: Peter Henderson

  Network for local government users in Great Britain of the CorVu performance management system/products: CorStrategy, CorBusiness, HyperVu, CorPortfolio etc. Membership restricted to current users of CorVu products, though can be extended to others at facilitator's discretion. Aims to share best practice, provide mutual help & support, identify useful enhancements & press for implementation. Contact Martin Farrell martin.farrell@westsussex.gov.uk

• Apply to join Council Role in Education Started: Aug 2011 | 185 members
  Lead organisation: Local Government Group
  Lead facilitator: Craig Titterton

  The Schools White Paper set out a strong, strategic role for councils in local education. This Community of Practice supports councils in addressing key issues, opportunities and challenges that local areas may face in developing new relationships between councils and schools.

• Apply to join Digital People - Accessibility Started: May 2008 | 288 members
  Lead organisation: The Central Office of Information
  Lead facilitator: Elaine Adu-Poku

  The accessibility sub-community of Digital People is for anyone interested in delivering inclusive websites. Join the community if you have ideas to discuss, stories to tell or good practice to share. We want to make sure that websites go beyond tick-box standards compliance. Accessibility is about communicating to the widest possible audience which means delivering content through a variety of media, helping users to customise sites to their needs, watching and listening to users and much more. Achieving inclusivity will be much easier if we collaborate, discuss our plans and develop our accessibility policies together. So join today!

• Apply to join Digital People @ COP Started: May 2008 | 650 members | This community has 2 sub-communities
  Lead organisation: The Central Office of Information
  Lead facilitator: Nick Jones

  The primary purpose of Digital People is to provide a cross-boundary network creating, sharing and developing insights and innovation to improve public service through the use of digital media.

• Apply to join Driving Local Economic Growth CoP Started: Jul 2010 | 518 members
  Lead organisation: LG Group
  Lead facilitator: Kamal Panchal

  Local government's record in economic development is vast. But we now face a new economic climate and the sector's work needs to be adapted. The Local Government Association's (LGA) own local growth campaign kicks off in November and will engage councils and their business, public sector and voluntary sector partners in a debate on local economic growth in a new era. This Community of Practice supports the local growth campaign and provides a space for those working to drive local economic growth to share information, highlight good practice and network

• Apply to join East Midlands Customer Insight & Research Started: Feb 2010 | 72 members
  Lead organisation: East Midlands Improvement & Efficiency Partnership
  Lead facilitator: Rachel Moreton

  This community provides an online networking space for customer insight and research practitioners in the East Midlands.

• Apply to join Edinburgh Business Forum Started: Jun 2010 | 31 members
  Lead organisation:
  Lead facilitator: Kyle Drummond

  The Edinburgh Business Forum (EBF) is a panel of leading businesses and public sector organisations in Edinburgh formed in spring 2010 to provide a strategic perspective on the future challenges for the development of Edinburgh.

• Join Edinburgh Housing Advice and Homelessness Network Started: Sep 2009 | 245 members
  Lead organisation:
  Lead facilitator: Joanna Anderson

  This is a space for Edinburgh's housing advice and information professionals to share information and best practice.

• Join Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Community Started: Aug 2007 | 1495 members
  Lead organisation: LG Group
  Lead facilitator: Helen Pineo

  This community is for those working in and with local government on environmental sustainability and climate change. The CoP's purpose is to enable interaction between like-minded professionals to help them develop their work. When you join this community, we'll send you regular fortnightly email updates about the latest things happening in the community. You can opt-out of updates at any time. For guidance on policy and best practice in different subject areas, features, case studies and links to more online resources, go to the ESCC resource on the IDeA website: www.idea.gov.uk/environment

• Apply to join Equalities & Procurement Group Started: Jun 2007 | 396 members
  Lead organisation: LG Group
  Lead facilitator: Mandy Wright

  This community is a forum for local authority practitioners (procurement, human resources, equalities, policy and strategy) to discuss the promotion of equality of opportunity through public procurement.

• Apply to join Equality CoP Started: May 2007 | 1298 members | This community has 4 sub-communities
  Lead organisation: LG Group
  Lead facilitator: Katerina Charalambous

  Community for the sharing of information and development of strategy in the equalities and the Equality Framework for Local Government.

• Apply to join Essex Partnership Started: Jul 2008 | 49 members | This community has 1 sub-community
  Lead organisation: Essex Partnership
  Lead facilitator: Essex Partnership

  This community can only be accessed by individuals invited by Essex Partenrships.

• Apply to join Facilitators Community Started: Sep 2006 | 406 members
  Lead organisation: LG Group
  Lead facilitator: Michael Norton

  The Facilitators Community purpose is to assist online facilitators across www.communities.idea.gov.uk. By sharing tips on online facilitation, engaging with experts in online communities and networking with colleagues to enhance your knowledge and experience of online facilitation.
  Before applying please ensure that your profile is fully complete including a photo and states the community you facilitate or will facilitate in the future.

• Apply to join Fenland Adult Learning Started: Apr 2010 | 15 members
  Lead organisation:
  Lead facilitator: Amy Wilson

  Community for members of the Fenland Informal Adult Learning Partnership and other people/organisations who may be interested in broadening and improving adult learning in Fenland