Here is a selection of tools to support you in implementing and embedding the Four Cornerstones. The tool you choose will depend on whether you are an individual school, setting or service aiming to introduce and embed the Cornerstones at an organisational level, or a whole area/group of organisations bringing partners together to improve co-production and inclusive practice within practice and culture.
Schools, settings and services
Here are links that take you to the tools you can use:
- Simple self-evaluation tool – a dip in the water, introducing the Four Cornerstones to your school, setting or service
- The Four Cornerstones Approach – a more robust and in-depth self-evaluation and development tool to support action-planning, aiming to better embed a Cornerstones culture across your school, setting or service
- Success Measures – a tool enabling schools, settings and services to measure co-production and inclusive practice outcomes, demonstrating the interconnectivity of the Cornerstones (it is recommended this is used alongside the Cornerstones Approach tool)
- Embedding the Four Cornerstones into Team and Service Plans – this tool provides guidance for services and a simple template
- Working Together in Partnership to Restore Trust – this is a tool for schools, services and settings to use with individuals, applying the Cornerstones to support restoration of relationships
- How the Four Cornerstones support Voice and Influence – a Cornerstones tool demonstrating how young people’s voice can best be facilitated and inform decision-making
Local areas and groups/partners working together
- Quality Indicators – this is a whole area/partnership self-evaluation tool to support Education, Health, Care partners, parent carers, young people, schools and settings working together strategically and/or operationally to strengthen co-production and inclusive practice. The Quality Indicators Framework Guidance will support the application of the tool.
- Quality Indicator Framework Guidance – to be used to support Quality Indicators activities
- How the Four Cornerstones support Voice and Influence – a Cornerstones tool demonstrating how young people’s voice can best be facilitated and inform decision-making