Co-production is about filling in a blank sheet of paper together, was one of my tweets on the first day of national co-production week during a twitter event to launch week. It sums up co-production quite well but it also covers what co-production week is all about. It’s not what one organisation or individual can do but what we can do together. It does feel like that’s what we are doing filling up a blank, calendar with events, tweets, good practice examples and launches.
SCIE has done a few things in the run up to co-production week including running a training course last week, setting up this blog spot and updating our free web materials to make them easier to find and navigate. We are looking forward to our festival of co-production later this week. But what is making the week really great is what other organisations are doing. It fab that organisations like the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Voice ability, Macmillan Cancer Support, the Innovation unit, Look Ahead and Turning Point have publicly supported the week. Andrea Sutcliffe, Chief Inspector for social care said ‘I have long been convinced of the value of working in co-production with people who use services, carers and their representative groups as well as providers, staff and other partners.’ For more about CQC and co-production see bit.ly/29d0cVv .
In Hampshire the new User Led Organisations Network launched in Winchester on 4th July. This is important because the role of user-led organisations in owning co-production is vital if co-production is not to become diluted and watered down. It is critical that smaller organisations, disabled people’s groups and other user groups engage with co-production. It is these organisations that will keep co-production rooted in communities and continuing to struggle with the real issues. On 6 and 7 July a Leadership for Empowering Healthy Communities cohort in Loughborough are holding two co-production labs to develop co-production.
On Friday 8 July the week will close with an event about New Belongings project, a wonderful initiative that employs Care leavers to help local authorities all over the country develop more co-production in their services for care leavers.
It seems a long way off but next year Co-production Week will be Monday 3 July to Friday 7 July. It is never too early to start thinking about what you can do during the week!
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