Very thoughtful piece. Also made me wonder (crediting Dr Jo Pearson for the thought) how All Child’s model creates a more sustainable impact on local children after the scaffolding comes down.
Particularly if impact is focused on systems improvements rather than better outcomes for specific children?
Thanks, Jo. I was using scaffolding just for the relational networks, because I think what's interesting about these models rather than backbones is that they have the innovation to system shift built in. I'm not saying that's easy, but I wonder if this is less of an issue than a backbone?
Although, I'm also writing something on backbones, and I think the scaffolding challenge is a problem to be worked through for those models, rather than seeing it as a weakness of the model. It's perhaps more of a weakness of the systems?
Yes agree, but I do think there is an inherent tension between driving change at pace through a well resourced BB and building capacity in BAU. Funder expectations around pace and extent of change is a factor.
Very thoughtful piece. Also made me wonder (crediting Dr Jo Pearson for the thought) how All Child’s model creates a more sustainable impact on local children after the scaffolding comes down.
Particularly if impact is focused on systems improvements rather than better outcomes for specific children?
Thanks, Jo. I was using scaffolding just for the relational networks, because I think what's interesting about these models rather than backbones is that they have the innovation to system shift built in. I'm not saying that's easy, but I wonder if this is less of an issue than a backbone?
Although, I'm also writing something on backbones, and I think the scaffolding challenge is a problem to be worked through for those models, rather than seeing it as a weakness of the model. It's perhaps more of a weakness of the systems?
Yes agree, but I do think there is an inherent tension between driving change at pace through a well resourced BB and building capacity in BAU. Funder expectations around pace and extent of change is a factor.