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Community · Cells

Field and practice cells

Working groups, practice communities and forum teams. They turn expert dialogue into shared readiness outputs across the councils, the sector and national forums and the annual programme.

13 types · hosted by a council, national forum, sector forum, host institution, member organisation

Research and learning

Policy and finance

Preparedness and people

Sector forums

Standards

Review and assurance

Data and engineering

How a cell forms

  1. DraftVisible to its members only, while the core areas are completed.
  2. ActiveListed in public, open to join as the cell has set.
  3. ClosedIts mission is complete; its records stay readable.

Core

Needed before the cell is listed in public.

  • Mission and scope. The purpose, place, scale and timeframe are filled in.
  • Members and roles. The type's minimum roles are held, including a safeguarding contact where one is required.
  • Governance. A decision rule is adopted by a founding decision, with a record anyone can verify.
  • Agreements. The charter and membership agreement are signed by the minimum members, and the data and licence choices are made.

Substantial

What makes the cell work well.

  • Work programme. At least one project and three issues, or one open call.
  • Workflows. The intake and decision routes are set.
  • Services. At least one shared service is connected.
  • Competences and learning. The competences sought are listed, and a learning path is set for each role.

Finish

What makes the cell easy to find and trust.

  • Public page. A cover, a logo, an about text and the outputs section are in place.
  • First activity. A first decision, post or output is on the record.

Ways to join

Open
Anyone signed in can join.
By request
People ask to join with their relevant expertise and a short motivation; the cell's admins approve or decline.
By invitation
Only people the cell invites can join.

What every cell keeps to

  • One engine per job: governance, matters, issues, credentials, competence and contributions stay in their own plugins; this contract only names them.
  • Nothing is priced and no money moves; credits are recognition only.
  • Learning and review records show progress and proof of review; they never certify.
  • Members under 18 are protected: never listed in public, never in response roles, always with an adult safeguarding contact.
  • Public counts under 5 are suppressed.
  • Every type is interdisciplinary: it names the expertise areas and disciplines it draws on, and anyone may ask to join.
  • A network may add types that extend a base type; a network type may override label, summary, defaults and starter set, never the boundary or the minors rule.