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In partnership with Shared Lives Plus and Think Local, Act Personal (TLAP), SCIE will finalise and identify the launch of 4 innovation demonstrator sites in 2019/20 to scale innovative models of care within their local areas through effective commissioning. This will work in tandem with the existing innovation network and advisory group that SCIE have set up in 2019/20. As part of this work programme, innovation demonstrator sites must hold a focus on initiatives to develop people powered results and other design-led approaches, the co-production approach, the asset-based area approach, intergenerational care and trial new outcomes-based payment mechanisms and integrator models. SCIE will work closely with each area to work on models that are both innovative, credible and designed to deliver the best results for each local authority. In 2018-19 DHSC commissioned SCIE to begin work on setting up and developing a innovation network of local authorities, providers and service users who were open to working in innovative ways. DHSC knew there were sporadic examples of innovative care in the work carried out by local authorities, but we want to better understand the barriers to scaling up innovation across the social care system and across geographies. The first stage of this work has been a success with over 500 organisations and individuals signed up to the programme. The innovation network involves 16 local authorities, 19 providers and 14 national bodies has been set up along with an advisory group. The network has held two large scale workshops with over 140 people attending, including service users, to discuss the opportunities and barriers to commissioning and supporting the scaling up of innovative care approaches. This has helped policy officials at DHSC better understand the challenges faced by those on the ‘shop floor’ of commissioning. For phase two of this work SCIE have identified four LA’s to take forward the commissioning of innovative approaches to care and support, this could include new asset-based commissioning methods, intergenerational care or testing out how to commission innovative models at scale. The overarching ambition and purpose will be to continue the work of the network to find and adopt ways of tackling the barriers that hinder the growth and spread of innovation. SCIE will do this by: • Building on the momentum of the network, creating a national narrative and growing movement committed to developing innovative models of care at scale. • Testing practical ways to support the scaling of innovation; we will work with local areas, providers and interested citizens to test out how we make progress in relation to scaling innovation on the four themes. • Building flexibility within the core offer and overall resources so we can remain agile and adapt to challenges and issues as they arise.