Recorded in July 2025.
Welcome session
Workshop 1: Looking at impact and evidencing co-production
A deep dive into SCIE’s updated impact tool, funded by the Department of Health and Social Care, measuring the difference co-production makes and how this has been used in East Riding Council.
Hosts: Daniel Kina (Senior Research Analyst, SCIE), Kevin Wright, Peter Measures (East Riding Council) and Isaac Samuels
Workshop 2: Accelerating Reform Fund: two projects showcasing community co-production
Find out about how SCIE is supporting the scaling of innovations in support for family and friend/unpaid carers.
We’ll focus on projects covering themes including hospital discharge and technology-enabled care, the development of a carers data dashboard, how a digital tool was developed for carers and a common approach to Shared Lives across a range of partners.
Hosts: Accelerating Reform Fund community projects- Duc Tran (Transformation Programme Manager, Brent Council) and Kevin Minier, Kim Terry and Mel Smith (Worcestershire Association of Carers).
Workshop 3: Innovations in commissioning
Find out how commissioners working the Integrated Care Board in South Tyneside partnered with their local user-led organisation, ‘Your Voice Counts’ to create a ‘Lived Experience Commissioning Officer role’ and the impact this lived experience voice is having on the way services are being bought and delivered.
Hosts: Sarah Golightly (Head of Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodiversity, North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board) Shaun Armour (Lived Experience Commissioner).
Workshop 4: Decolonisation, harm reduction and understanding power dynamics when co-producing with communities
Co-production requires a radical change, with a focus on decolonization, harm reduction and understanding power dynamics when co producing with communities. Abdirahim Hassan, Founder of Coffee Afrik CIC, running 7 community led hubs, across 29 projects, will offer alterative ways of knowing and building with communities of colour.
Host: Abdirahim Hassan (Founder, Coffee Afrik CIC).
Workshop 5: The use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in social care and ‘Data for People’ (TLAP – Think Local Act Personal)
Generative AI is already being used in care and support, bringing both opportunities and risks. How can we ensure AI supports ethical, personalised care that enables people to live their lives their way? Our work set out a series of principles to inform policy and practice, identify practical issues and areas that need urgent action from government and regulators.
The government has made improving data in care a core part of its programme for reform. We identified a need to develop a position on care data – one that starts from the perspectives of people with lived experience. Find out about 15 key co-produced principles and six actions about the collection, storage, sharing, and use of data in care in England along themes of commitment to co-production, equity, inclusion, trust and transparency.
Hosts: Kate Jopling (University of Oxford); members of the National Co-production Advisory Group (NCAG- Jennifer Pearl, Jacqui Darlington); Jacky Morton (Sentai) and Dr Caroline Green (Oxford Institute for ethics in AI).
Workshop 6: National Care Forum ‘Care Innovation Challenge’ and TLAP hack-day
Find out about innovative approaches bringing app and web developers together with people with lived experience to co-design solutions to problems facing social care; winners receive mentoring and support from people with lived experience. In this joint session we’ll also explore TLAP’s approach to a ‘hack-day’ – fully co-produced and co-delivered session by people with lived experience, sector colleagues, and partners from beyond social care — led to innovative thinking, unexpected partnerships, and momentum for change. The session highlights co-production as an engine for innovation and what happens when you hack social care with new voices at the table.
Hosts: Freya Al Baz (Associate, Think Local Act Personal); Jennifer Pearl and members of the National Co-production Advisory Group (NCAG); Ian McCreath (Director, TLAP)