Highlights from National Co-production Week 2019 - Sharing power

In 2019, we talked about power and how this needs to be shared more equally with people who use services and carers.

We showed, with practical examples, live guests and innovative seminars how more equal partnerships with people who use services and carers can be achieved. After all, it is only when everyone’s contribution is valued equally and power is shared that meaningful co-production can happen.

We got people to tweet, email and blog about their experiences of power with examples of when this has been shared – what did this look like and what was the outcome?

SCIE's 2019 Co-production Week activities

• The fourth annual Co-production Festival/Learning Event was on Thursday 4 July in London.
• Webinar – a free online taster for SCIE’s new training session Co-production: Holding accessible and inclusive meetings.
• Our Co-production Week blog is packed with examples of co-production across a range of sectors and organisations. Our Podcast from guests including Oxfordshire County Council’s Co-Production Team and Walsingham Support Services on co-production in action.Listen now
• Our tweets about Co-production Week.
• We have launched Breaking down the barriers to co-production, a short report based on co-production week 2018.
• We created a nationwide online survey to get a picture of what people across the UK think about co-production in social care. View the findings.

What else happened in July 2019?

We asked organisations and individuals to:

• hold events about co-production - tell us about your event and we’ll promote it
• contribute to the Co-production Week blog
• tell us about examples of good practice in co-production – we included the best ones in our co-production guide’s ‘practice examples’ section
• tweet about co-production using the hashtag #coproweek

Co-production Festival 2019

Below is a highlight film from our 2019 Festival.