# How to use the playbook This playbook is a structured guide that outlines the strategies, protocols, and best practices for delivering social care services using co-operative methods. It is intended to serve as a reference manual for social care professionals, local authority officers and community organisations, providing the necessary tools and guidelines to ensure consistent, high-quality social care. It is also meant to provide context by highlighting Equal Care's experiences in creating, launching, and running a sustainable co-operative social care service. ## How to use it The playbook is a resource designed to be easy to use and modular. Its content is easily searchable, allowing you to find the information you are looking for quickly. ### Search This is at the very top right of the screen. It's AI-powered, so as well as asking it to find words or phrases, you can pose questions as well, e.g. "What is the purpose of Team Starters?"

### Chapter Menu The playbook is not meant to be read cover to cover (but you can if you'd like!), rather, we suggest you use the left-hand navigation to find the content you are interested in. Pages are nested, click the triangles next to some page titles to reveal the topic's subpages.

Chapter navigation - highlighted in purple.

### In-page Navigation At the bottom of each page, there are "previous" and "next" buttons, so you can quickly move between sequential pages.

### Exporting and printing the playbook You can export the page you are looking at or the whole playbook. Just click on the "Export" button to the left of the page. This will also provide a print option as well.

Export and print - highlighted in purple.

### Sharing You can share a page or the entire playbook by clicking on the "Share" button at the bottom of the screen.

--- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://play.equal.care/introduction/how-to-use-the-playbook.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.