SCIE aims to embed co-production and the voice of people with lived experience in the design and delivery of care and support services and in policy and research to better meet people’s needs.
In order to fulfil this, we need to ensure that we build our knowledge base about what works in social care with the support and partnership of those that use social care. This ensures that any work we undertake works on a practical as well as a strategic level.
Our Co-production Steering Group advises SCIE on the development of the co-production strategy ensuring all SCIE’s work is informed by the voice of lived experience. They ensure, as an organisation, that we live up to our name in terms of excellence in all that we do.
In line with SCIE’s values we recognise the skill and time of the people we work with and want to continue to be able to pay them for their input in the same way a staff member would be paid.
Each year SCIE covers these costs as an important element of our charitable offer. This equates to approximately £600 per week which provides real value as it is integral to all of our work.
“I want to be fully involved as soon as the idea blossoms. Asking me for my opinion once the idea is set means that I can’t influence the agenda.”
Member of SCIE’s Co-production Steering Group