I am pleased with how things are going.
AMBIT manuals
The multiple versions of the Core content of the AMBIT manual are starting bit by bit (and it was always meant to be bit by bit!) to inch towards differentiated, customised forms, that begin to address local specifics - "how we do this stuff here, with these kids, in these streets". Far be it from me to introduce comptetition into this collaborative exercise, but Kids company and the MAC team are giving the CASUS team a run for their money in starting to introduce regular slots to MANUALIZE their own practice in their own local versions, inter-digitating their contributions alongside the pre-formed manualization content about AMBIT that is curated from the Anna Freud Centre.
MBT-F manual(s)
At last, I have managed to put the MBT-F manual into the new AMBIT-theme, so that it has the same (we think greatly improved, though FEEDBACK is still something we crave) user interface as the AMBIT manual.
This user interface is thanks to the generous support of COMIC RELIEF, which is funding improvements to the manual, as well as training for non-statutory teams (there are still a few slots for FREE TRAINING in AMBIT for non-statutory teams in the UK if you rush to the Anna Freud Centre)
Fellowship at the CLARHC
I am thrilled to have been given a one year Fellowship at the Cambridge-based CLARHC (Collaboration for Leadership and Applied Research for Health and Care), starting in September. As a CLARHC Fellow, I get to spend a day a week working with Cambridge University academics, the Judge Business School, and other experienced clinicians to look specifically at the implementation of a TiddlyManual in a clinical, "real world" setting.
We are currently looking at different ways to do this, and some of the opportunities are more than exciting, involving the possibility of formal cluster analysis of outcomes for multiple teams engaging in AMBIT and using tiddlymanuals to support themselves in this - watch this space.
