Worker Autonomy

Deliverables

Each LA has an action plan developed around worker autonomy

Milestones

Setup project board

11/06/2021

Milestones

Set up project team

11/06/2021

Constraints

Time to be allocated for each member to progress work between meetings and attend meetings on a monthly basis (for 6 months).

Assumptions

That leaders are signed up to the process.

To shift power and control from the system down to workers and people, where the process of accessing budgets is quick and simple and transparent.

Key benefit

Sponsors

Scottish Government

Promise Team

IRASC Team

Local Authorities (One from an Island setting, one urban/rural and the other from a city)

Account manager

PLPP and SDSS and the SDS Collective

SDS National Partners

CELCIS

Others

Stakeholder

To ensure the the LAs commit to setting up a project board and also a project team.

Requirements management technique

To ensure that the parameters for accessing budgets, delegated lines of authority for spend are clear

Requirement

To have a project board overseeing the actions of the project and also adressing the barriers faced by staff when it is a challenge to access budgets to meet agreed outcomes.

Exclusion

Communication & collaboration tools

MS Teams

SWS website

Tool

Key communications events

Kick-off meeting all three LAs self evaluation - identification of key priorities.

Ist week June

Individual project meetings on a monthly basis

Actions/ Risk and issue reviews

Project review

Set up steering group with national partners and representatives from supported people groups.

Meet monthly

Activity

Host a worker autonomy COP monthly sharing the learning from the LAs we are working with. Allowing the other LAs the opportunity to ask questions and share solutions.

Meet monthly