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  • Introduction
    • 🥳Welcome to the playbook
    • 📒Project background
    • What is co-operative care?
    • 🛠️How to use the playbook
    • A word from...
      • Equal Care
      • Clapton Care Commons
  • Start and Grow
    • 🚠Overview
    • 🌍Foundation
      • Founders
      • Find the others
      • Feasibility
      • Formation
    • Have a go
    • Find (more) money
    • Share the power
    • 🎋Grow
      • Recruit workers
      • Start teams
    • Sustain
  • Technology
    • Equal Care's Platform
    • Equal Care's technology journey
    • Choosing technologies
      • Social Care Platform Vendors
  • Fundraising
    • Fundraising options
    • Community Share Offers
      • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
    • Commons Contribution
    • Restrictions on investment
  • Equal Care's Model
    • Our Purpose
    • How we work
    • Sociocracy
    • Circles
      • Long term decisions
      • Everyday decisions
      • Circle records
      • Consent
      • Proposals
    • Teams
      • Why we use the Teams model
      • Who's in?
      • Team Starting
        • The role of a Team Starter
        • 1. Starting a Team: The First Contact
        • 2. Beginning the Relationship
        • 3. Finding the Right Match
        • 4. Supportive Conversation & Trust Assessment
          • 4a. Example of a Supportive Conversation
          • 4b. Example of a Trust Assessment
        • 5. Profiles and promises
          • 5a. The Getting Support Promise
          • 5b. The Getting Support Profile
          • 5c. Worker and team member profiles
        • 6. Building a team
          • 6a. Finding and welcoming new members
          • 6b. Trialling new team members
        • 7. Getting Organised: Roles and Hats
        • 8. Stepping Back: Team Independence
      • Dealing with conflict and change
        • Conflict support
        • How to leave a team well
    • Hats
      • Team Hats
      • Circle Hats - Process
      • Circle Hats - Operational
        • Care Commons Organiser
        • Peer supervisor
    • Platform
    • Co-production
      • Implementing co-production
      • Context of co-production in social care
      • Governance for co-production
      • Ownership for co-production
    • Care Commons
    • Radical Candour
  • Evaluation framework
    • Introduction
    • Commons-based Care: the Context
    • Scope
      • Three Domains of Care Outcomes: Process, Change, and Maintenance.
      • Three Domains of Outcomes in Equal Care
      • Mapping Equal Care Outputs to Outcomes Domains
      • Social Climate as a Key Evaluative Lens
    • Evaluation Challenges
    • Methods
      • Social Climate Survey
      • Community Mapping
      • Interviews and workshops
      • Group activities
      • Community needs assessment
        • Locality analysis
    • Data Analysis
      • Interviews Outcome Domains
        • Growth Outcomes
        • Well-being, Relationships & Belonging Outcomes
        • Systems Maintenaince & Co-production Outcomes
      • Community Network Map: Analysis & Overview
        • Who’s in the Network?
        • Bridging the Gap Between Formal and Informal Care
        • Mapping Care Wealth
        • What We Learned from the Teams
        • The Role of Teams in the Community Care Network
        • Reflections and Future Directions
      • Reflections from the Ground: Insights from Key Circle Leads
        • Circle Outputs: Experiences & Learnings from the Clapton Circle.
        • Teams Outputs: Experiences & Learnings from the Clapton Circle.
        • Platform Outputs: Experiences & Learnings from the Clapton Circle.
        • Commons Outputs: Experiences & Learnings from the Clapton Circle.
          • Care Commons Organiser Role Description
    • The Toolbox
      • Theory of Change
        • What is a Theory of Change?
          • Using a Theory of Change
        • Co-producing our Theory of Change
        • Observations about ToC Outcomes
        • How to use our interactive ToC
          • Orientation to ToC Tool: The Kumu Platform
            • Using the focus function in Kumu
            • Using Basic Control Functions
            • Toggling Between views
          • 1. Outputs Dimensions and Outcome Domains
          • 2. Coop Output Dimensions - a deeper dive.
          • 3. Coop Outcomes Domains. A deeper dive.
        • Using ToC tool to understand our model of care: Key Outputs.
        • Using ToC tool to understand our model of care: Key Outcomes
        • Using ToC tool to see how we measure outcomes
        • Using ToC tool to understand the impact of specific features of the coop
          • Circle ToC
          • Platform ToC
          • Teams ToC
          • Commons ToC
        • Using this tool for Strategy and Planning
      • Equal Care Coop's Social Climate Survey
        • About Equal Care's Social Climate
          • Why Measure Social Climate?
        • Interpreting Growth Measures
          • Low Score Interpretation
          • Medium Score Interpretation
          • High Score Interpretation
        • Interpreting Systems Maintenance and Co-production Measures
          • Low Score Interpretation
          • Medium Score Interpretation
          • High Score Interpretation
        • Interpreting Well-being, Relationships & Belonging Measures
          • Low Score Interpretation
          • Medium Score Interpretation
          • High Score Interpretation
        • Using the Social Climate Survey: Resources and Challenges.
        • List of Survey Items for all Stake Holders
      • Community Care Mapping Tool
      • Interview Templates
      • Atlas Care Maps
      • Co-Production Capacity Assessment Tool
        • 10 capacities for co-production
        • Using the tool
  • Service Specification
    • Care as a common pool resource
    • Service Spec
    • Service Map
  • Cost Model
    • Introduction
    • Resources
    • Fair wages
    • Cost Models in Social Care
  • Resources
    • Co-op operations
      • Communications
        • Roles
        • Tone of Voice
        • Digital Inclusion
        • Social Media
      • Learning
        • What you need to know
        • Peer to peer learning
    • Documentation
    • Care and Support Rates
    • Co-op rules & bylaws
    • Care Mapping with Atlas of Care
      • Care Mapping for Relationship-Centred Care
      • Care Mapping for new Teams
      • Care Mapping for Evaluation
    • Glossary
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  1. Introduction

How to use the playbook

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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.

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.

Sharing

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