Once the analysis for finding the gaps has been carried out, the other main tool, the template for Filling the Gaps, can be used to help the organisation decide how it might plan any development it wishes to undertake to address the gaps.
A separate copy of the template might be used to log the issues for development identified under the categories suggested on the previous page, namely Focusing, Establishing and Enhancing, by copying and pasting between the Finding the Gaps tool and its associated blank Filling the Gaps template.
The template requires the organisation to ask itself the following questions:
Do we need to fill the gap?
- If “yes” then what provision needs to be developed?
- What quality standards should we aim for? I.e. what will the provision look like?
- What training for staff will be needed to implement it successfully?
- When it is in place, how will we know that it is successful? I.e. what evidence will be available or can we collect?
For the issues coded as Enhancing a separate exercise might be undertaken to collect the evidence that demonstrates the requirement is being met.
The review activities described above could be carried out in a range of ways:
- As a natural part of the SAR process
- As an in house development activity with groups of staff from across the organisation or from a particularly targeted area
- With external partners as part of a Peer Development Review.
The templates are available here:
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