To recap (from Key Features [1] and [2]) :

The PIE Abacus starts off by offering a template with the five main headline issues in PIEs 2.0 - 'the short form'.

• psychological awareness
• training and support
• learning and enquiry
• spaces of opportunity
• the Three Rs

But the design of the PIE Abacus software then allows services to go into more detail  (to 'drill down') into any areas of the PIEs 2.0 framework that they would wish to focus more closely on; and it is possible also to simply pass over any issue that seems less relevant. (For details, see: Key features of the PIE Abacus [2] drilling down : HERE)

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But another exciting feature of the Abacus approach and the software is that particular services - even whole organisations - can also add in issues that are particularly relevant to them. These we call 'bespoke' fields.

This option, to go beyond the broad general framework of PIEs 2.0, and develop specialist areas, whilst still connecting with the core issues in common with those other services that do not specialise in this way, gives the PIE Abacus all the flexibility and customisability that we had intended, in that PIEs 2.0 framework ( See: A new and fully customisable framework for PIEs : HERE)

This feature is best explained by illustration.There is an introductory video, available to all, on the iAbacus software developers' site, HERE.

We also have a written introduction - but currently only available to those actually taking part in the pilot - with two worked examples, showing the 'add in' feature in use in an agency that wishes to focus on and roll out peer support, as its USP; and for a still more complex use in a multi-agency locality aiming to develop PIEs in public spaces.  (For the purpose and the state of play with PIE pilots process, see: The PIE Abacus pilots : HERE )

NB: the on-line training course for PIE leads and others - 'PIEs, Pizazz and the PIE Abacus: Intermediate level training' - goes into all this in considerably more depth. It is currently being finalised, taking into account many recent developments; and will be available in time for the launch of the PIE Abacus, later this year.

The simplest, most effective way to evaluate and improve your PIE from Daniel O'Brien on Vimeo.