Collaboration is a complex need

The PIEs approach was first identified and first fully articulated as a model of service development (HERE) in the context of homelessness services in the UK, after the explosion of creativity and commitment unleashed by the Supporting People programme (HERE). However, the roots of this practice, and of this description, ran both wider and deeper (HERE).

PIES 2.0, the mature model that followed the earliest descriptions (HERE) reflected this wider background in social policy and community mental health, as well as the emerging practice of services and their attempts to address not just homelessness, but the complex psychological and emotional needs that were expressed in homelessness.

Even so, it was always clear that this complexity did not lie solely in the complex needs of the individuals concerned. It was equally a function of the silo'd service provision and outcomes measurement required by the mechanisms of the New Public Management philosophy (HERE) .

Addressing these wider and more systemic needs was to prove a different kind of 'working with complex needs'. For more effective service provision, collaboration between service providers, and more collaborative relationships between providers and their commissioners, was a complex need in its own right (HERE) .

Accordingly, the PIElink ran a forum discussion on the subject, in Spring of 2021 (HERE), and again in the Spring of 2024 (HERE), intending these to be the springboard to an on-going discussion, and a Special Interest Group (HERE). However, so far this has not yet come about, and it remains one of the key tasks for the future.

Complexity: HERE

smarter commissioning : HERE

commissioning for complexity: HERE

Roll out and embedding: HERE

Enabling Help: HERE

Human Learning Systems : : HERE

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Collaboration is a complex need

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