Scaling innovation: a collective endeavour

…the effort it takes to successfully adopt an innovation. By recognising and responding to the needs of adopters, it has successfully spread the Macmillan Cancer Nurse Specialist role across the…

Sarah Ward

Sarah works across Innovation Unit’s International Education portfolio, blending inclusive and culturally responsive approaches to research, service design methods, and innovation adoption and implementation. She is deeply committed to supporting…

Aimee Hadrup

…public sector to adopt new ways of working that will help meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Aimee holds a Masters degree in Public Health and is interested…

Jahaan Abdurahman

…Network team, where she facilitates a growing understanding of how NHS organisations can effectively adopt and implement anchor missions. Before joining Innovation Unit, Jahaan had diverse career experiences. Her early…

Charlotte Billington

…in their co-design & creation, development of an ambitious multi-disciplinary approach to Alternative Provision, and a large scale adopt and adapt programme across the North West to drive regional innovation…

Janice Nicholson

…Door model both within North Yorkshire County Council, then more widely to other local authority areas as part of an ‘adopt and adapt’ and sector led improvement approach. This incorporated…

Frances Flaxington

…She was part of the team assisting local authorities in Greater Manchester to adopt and adapt No Wrong Door for children and young people in or on the edge of…

Mission accomplished? Not quite.

…which tried and tested innovations they could adopt and adapt to deliver better outcomes for children and young people, and better value for money for the system. This kind of…

What the Voice teaches us about co-design

One of our key principles that we adopt across all our work is listening to and amplifying the voices of people most impacted. It seems impossible, then, that we would…

Disruptive learning in and from a crisis

…personnel and officers/practitioners as colleagues; adopt co-production as a core and common practice; support flexible home and community-based working. Innovation is supposed to be disruptive Remember the Stephen Fry examples…

How edtech can transform learning for the better

…country’s eduLab–schools that are tasked with developing ICT innovations so that they can be adopted by schools across the system–has adopted better and more advanced data technology to help in…

Looking ‘under the bonnet’ of No Wrong Door

…in numbers of looked after children, as well as significant financial savings. Adopting and adapting No Wrong Door Innovation Unit coaches are currently working with teams in Salford, Trafford, Wigan,…

Scaling innovation twitter chat

…scaling innovations. Ways to do this include the following. The ‘adopters’ of innovation need greater recognition and support. The current system primarily rewards innovators, but those taking up innovations often…

Green energy, local jobs, warm homes

…‘best practice’.) Some neighbouring local authorities in other parts of South Wales admitted they would struggle to adopt it. It was swimming against the tide of local government outsourcing, privatisation…

Adopting Innovation to improve health and care

Innovation Unit is working with four health and care systems to set up innovation hubs where they can develop knowledge, skills and confidence to identify, adapt and adopt the innovations…