Co-production in social care: What it is and how to do it
SCIE Guide 51
Published: October 2015
Co-production is a key concept in the development of public services. It has the potential to make an important contribution to all of the big challenges that face social care services.
This is a guide to what co-production is and how to develop co-productive approaches to working with people who use services and carers. It is aimed at managers and commissioners, frontline practitioners and people who use services and carers.
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Recommendations
Here you will find a summary of the key recommendations from the guide.
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Introduction
Overview of the development of co-production in social care.
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What is co-production?
Definitions and principles of co-production, policy context, and personalisation and economics of co-production.
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How to do co-production
The changes organisations need to make to implement co-production in social care.
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Practice examples
Full details on each of the 16 practice examples quoted in the guide and how they approach co-production.
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Resources
Short films produced to show co-production in action.
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