Blogs on co-production

Head-shot of the author, Phil Gibson, Co-production Lead, Camphill Village Trust Co-production: Being confident, comfortable, and brave enough to tell your story (05 July 2023)
By Phil Gibson, Co-production Lead, Camphill Village Trust

Head-shot of the author, Cleo Lapidge. 3C’s Advanced Practitioner and Interim Co-Production Lead Co-Production in the real world in Worcestershire (05 July 2023)
By Cleo Lapidge. 3C’s Advanced Practitioner and Interim Co-Production Lead

Head-shot of the author, Tracey Bignall, Senior Policy and Practice Officer, Race Equality Foundation The importance of co-production for minority ethnic communities (05 July 2023)
By Tracey Bignall, Senior Policy and Practice Officer, Race Equality Foundation

Head-shot of the author, Various The Making of the film 'John’s Fight for Freedom' (04 July 2023)
By Various

Head-shot of the author, Josie Soutar, Managing Director, Sheffield Flourish Getting co-production wrong (04 July 2023)
By Josie Soutar, Managing Director, Sheffield Flourish

Head-shot of the author, Patrick Wood, Chair of the SCIE Co-production Network. Active in the mental health survivor movement since 1989 What do you mean by ‘the usual suspects’? (03 July 2023)
By Patrick Wood, Chair of the SCIE Co-production Network. Active in the mental health survivor movement since 1989

Head-shot of the author, Helen Guest, Co-production Programmes Manager, Active Prospects Valuing people's differences (02 July 2023)
By Helen Guest, Co-production Programmes Manager, Active Prospects

Head-shot of the author, John Hersov, ‘Am I invisible’ facilitator Tackling inequalities in care: The telephone remains key for human-centred care and support (23 May 2023)
By John Hersov, ‘Am I invisible’ facilitator

Head-shot of the author, Caroline Waugh, Co-production Week Planning Group and National Co-production Advisory Group member Co-production. My Journey (02 May 2023)
By Caroline Waugh, Co-production Week Planning Group and National Co-production Advisory Group member

Head-shot of the author, Tasnim Rahman, SCIE Research Analyst Co-production: I was intrigued (14 March 2023)
By Tasnim Rahman, SCIE Research Analyst

Talking about co-production: Reflections on our face-to-face panel event (23 August 2022)
By Tasnim Rahman, SCIE Research Analyst

Talking about co-production in Kirklees (07 July 2022)
By Beve Smith, Dulcie Leach, Tamsin Macdonald and Alex Chaplin.

Talking about co-production in Doncaster (05 July 2022)
By Valerie Wood and Bryony Shannon

Co-Production. The Care Act and the Wellbeing Principle (05 July 2022)
By John Evans, OBE, Independent Living and Disability Rights activist, and former SCIE Co-production Steering Group Chair

The impact of co-production: Learning from experience (04 July 2022)
By Patrick Wood, Chair of the SCIE Co-production Network. Active in the mental health survivor movement since 1989

20th anniversary: Standout moment - SCIE Co-production Festival (12 October 2021)
By John Evans, Independent Living and Disability Rights activist, and former SCIE Co-production Steering Group Chair

Co-production in Oxfordshire: Three years on (09 July 2021)
By Jo Barnicoat, Parent / Carer - and Karen Fuller, Deputy Director of Adult Social Care, Oxfordshire County Council

Our Voice: Celebrating co-production (09 July 2021)
By Robin Gibson. Inclusive Participation Officer, The Down's Syndrome Association

How to do autism conferences in a new wave, punk style (08 July 2021)
By Jane Green, SCIE trustee

Take the pledge: Putting people at the heart of events (08 July 2021)
By Kathryn Smith, Chief Executive, Social Care Institute for Excellence

How can we use co-production to promote anti-racism? (08 July 2021)
By Arjun Malhotra. Involvement and Participation Manager at Migrant Help

Co-production in Hampshire (07 July 2021)
By Lara Blake and Jessica Tallett, Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group Continuing Healthcare Team

Involving parents and carers in decisions made about young people (06 July 2021)
By Lisa Coffman - Treasurer and Co-ordinator at the Barnet Parent Carer Forum

What is Co-production? (05 July 2021)
By Anne Pridmore, SCIE Co-production Network

Co-production in lockdown (22 June 2020)
By Patrick Wood, SCIE Co-production, Equalities and Human Rights Steering Group Member

Love, social care, co-production (16 March 2020)
By Ryan Wise, Practice Development Manager, SCIE

Launch of Co-production Oxfordshire’s Working Together Handbook (14 October 2019)
By Danie Woodbridge, Co-production Lead, Oxfordshire County Council

Co-production and Advocacy (16 August 2019)
By A provocation and call to action, By Pete Fleischmann

Co-production: Shaping the future in Kirklees (13 May 2019)
By Amanda Evans - Service Director for Adult Social Care Operations

Co-production isn’t just for Christmas (17 December 2018)
By Tony Hunter, SCIE Chief Executive

Getting the person at the centre of the process (27 November 2018)
By Kath Sutherland, FRSA. Founder of START Ability Services and Member of SCIE’s Co-production Steering Group

People-powered services in Oxfordshire (02 October 2018)
By Kate Pieroudis, SCIE Co-Production Development Manager

The importance of pizza and co-production (05 April 2018)
By Lucy Milich, SCIE children’s practice development manager

Looked after children and mental wellbeing. The role of co-production (05 November 2017)
By Chloe from SCIE's expert working group

What makes life worth living? Co-producing outcomes for the Named Social Worker project (03 November 2017)
By Linda Jackson, SCIE Associate

“I am not a number.” Keeping local co-production personal (18 July 2017)
By Jillian Martin, Office of Social Services, Department of Health Northern Ireland

Co-production 'pokes the bear' in Northern Ireland (17 July 2017)
By Deirdre McCloskey, Project Coordinator, Mid and East Antrim Agewell Partnership

Learning difficulties: living a good independent life (24 February 2017)
By Cecilia Mercer, SCIE Co-production Support Assistant

To find good employees, service users need to be involved in recruitment and training (18 November 2016)
By Ewan King, SCIE's director of business development and delivery

Co-production: The way forward (14 September 2016)
By Pete Fleischmann, SCIE's Head of Co-Production

How I see co-production (21 July 2016)
By Alex Fox, CEO of Shared Lives Plus and SCIE trustee

Co-production Week in July: because we’re not puppets on a string (15 April 2016)
By SCIE's Michael Turner, Co-production support manager

Leadership, co-production and a Henry Wordsworth Longfellow poem (04 January 2016)
By Tina Coldham, SCIE trustee and chair of SCIE’s Co-Production Network and Michael Turner, SCIE Co-production Support Manager

Co-production – the missing link in integration (18 November 2015)
By Rob Greig, chief executive, the National Development Team for Inclusion