Impact Centre Listening Tour

Each Session : 🕒 (Times vary)

1-2 hours to engage in a focus group activity to tell us your views on key topics related to working with Service children.

The SCiP Alliance Impact Centre wants to hear from anyone working with Service children about the approaches that make a real difference. This could include support at home, in schools, within communities, or in relation to health and wellbeing. We are particularly interested in understanding how evidence is accessed, used, and shared across the sector—and how communication about “what works” can be strengthened.

The work of the SCiP Alliance Impact Centre responds to a clear need: to better support the sector in evidencing and communicating effective practice for Service children. We will develop training, resources, and guidance on best practices in evidencing—but it’s essential that this work is shaped by those directly supporting Service children.

To achieve this, we are launching a wide-reaching community engagement listening tour, designed to come to you and hear your insights first-hand. This forms part of the Landscape of Evidence Needs for the Sector (LENS) Programme, a broad scoping initiative that includes:

• The listening tour
• Interviews with sector leaders
• Written submissions
• Analysis of existing materials

By bringing together these insights, we aim to highlight best practice and identify the most effective ways to strengthen evidencing approaches across the sector.

Anyone working with Service children in any capacity as part of your regular work. We welcome those working in:

• Social, youth, and community support work
• Teaching, education, early years provision, schools, further education and higher education provision
• Charities, welfare services, pastoral roles and beneficiary support
• Activity centres and sports clubs
• NHS, health visitors, CAMHS, school nurses, and public health
• Local and national authority and policy work
• A funder or sponsor of work supporting armed forces families
• Anyone with a role supporting children and young people who may be from Armed Forces Families

Note: Exact locations may be subject to change, yet to be announced, or not publicly available.

19th May -Yeovil - Closed

20th May - Lympstone - Closed

21st May -Plymouth - Closed

22nd May - Helston- Closed

27th May - Edinburgh - Closed

28th May - Leuchars - Closed

29th May - Lossiemouth - Closed

01st June - Inverness - Closed

02nd June - Helensburgh - Closed

05th June - Cardiff - Closed

10th June - Colchester - Closed

11th June - Norwich - Closed

12th June - King's Lynn - Closed

15th June - Cottesmore - Closed

16th June - Lincoln - Closed

17th June - Oxford - Closed

29th June - Innsworth- Closed

30th June - Preston - Closed

01st July - York - Closed

02nd July - Catterick - Closed

06th July - Chester - Closed

7th July - Anglesey - Closed

08th July - Wolverhampton- Closed

24th July - Online - Closed

12th Aug - Online - Closed

19th Aug - Online - Closed

16th Sept - Hook 

21st Sept - High Wycombe

23rd Sept - Portsmouth - Closed

25th Sept - Manchester

30th Sept - Ruislip

01st Oct - Online - Closed

02nd Oct - London 

08th Oct - Cyprus 

12th Oct - Durrington

14th Oct - Salisbury 

04th Nov - Gosport