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 for social work educators and staff and people who use services looks at the practical arrangements that need to be made around accessibility, support and payments to ensure that users and carers can participate in social work education and be rewarded for their input.

Social work education participation: hopes for the future

Part of Co-production

Academics, policy-makers, people who use services and carers describe their hopes for the future development of user and carer participation in social work education in this film for social work educators and students and service users.

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

Part of Co-production

This video for social work educators and students describes the ways in which people who use services and carers participate in social work degree courses at four universities. It looks at the benefits user and carer involvement brings to the courses and how they gain from the experience of participation.

Disabled children and young people: extending participation

This film for children’s health and social care commissioners and staff shows how in 2008, Bradford City Council became a pathfinder council for the Aiming Higher for Disabled Children programme. It shows how meaningful participation of children and young people can improve service design and delivery.

'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.