Co-production

Co-production training and resources for health and social care managers commissioners, frontline practitioners, people who use services and carers. Improve participation and co-production with people who use services and carers to develop and deliver better social care and health provision.

Co-production training courses

SCIE offers a range of training in co-production. Explore and book courses to establish collaborative partnerships with people who use services.

Social work education participation: access, payment and support

Part of Co-production

This video describes the range of arrangements that social work education courses need to make around access, payment and support to ensure that service users and carers can participate fully.

Social work education participation: hopes for the future

Part of Co-production

This film looks at potential future developments in service user and carer participation in social work education.

Social work education participation: what's happening in four universities?

Part of Co-production

Representatives from four universities describe how they are working with service user and carers.

Disabled children and young people: extending participation

This film highlights the importance of meaningful participation of children and young people in service design and industry.

'We are more than our story': service user and carer participation in social work education

Part of Co-production

This report draws on the views of service users and carers from the Social Work Education Participation (SWEP) website steering group and members of the General Social Care Council (GSCC) Visitors group who inspect social work programmes with GSCC inspectors.

Doing it for themselves: participation and black and minority ethnic service users

Part of Co-production

Service user participation in social care has increased markedly in the wider service user movement over the last 20 years. However, the participation of black and minority ethnic service users has diminished over the same period. This report identifies some of the reasons for this reduction and concludes by stating that given the right opportunities, support and resources, there is a genuine commitment and interest from service users to become more actively involved in the process

The participation of children and young people in developing social care

This guide offers quick and easy access to practice knowledge about involving children and young people in developing social care. It covers key research findings; ideas from practice; details of relevant legislation, guidance and standards; and links to further information.

Making meetings accessible for people with learning difficulties

People with learning difficulties may need extra support when attending meetings. In her second SCIE Opinion, Cecilia looks at how this can be done, and introduces the ‘traffic light’ system of using cards; these cards help people with learning difficulties to take part in meetings and communicate whether they have something to say, they want something to be explained again or that they agree with what has been said.