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Change projects identify an area of practice, take account of the available evidence, pilot new ways of working and evaluate the impact. Typically projects will take place over 18 months to two years and bring people together from five or six Partner agencies.

The first change project looks at the protection of vulnerable adults. Click here for more information.

The primary aim of any change project is to influence and, ultimately, improve outcomes for adult social care users and carers. It is central to the change project process that projects:

• hold improved outcomes for the service-users central to their aims
• adopt an evidence-informed approach to all aspects of development
• seek to include service users and/or service user views in the change project
• are practical and hands-on
• result in a product or event that can be shared widely to help improve practice.

While there is no universal model of a change project, it is likely that all will contain the following elements:

• each change project topic will emerge from consultation with Partner agencies about current and future priorities for service and skill development
• the output of each change project will originate in practical work undertaken by practitioners, policy makers, RiPfA staff and researchers working together
• membership of each change project will be formed by an open call for expressions of interest from Partner agencies. This 'team' of up to seven agencies will then lead one or more stages of the change project
  
• the work of teams will result in 'products' which will be produced in draft first - to be tested, refined, piloted, evaluated, re-refined and published for the benefit of the whole Partner agency network
• both draft and final materials may be accompanied by a launch or conference event held to share the messages learned from the change project
• pilot and final materials will be posted to the RiPfA website.