Coprodnet & Governance International 'Advancing the Agenda' workshop at policy@MBS week

Coprodnet and Governance International are co-hosting a co-production workshop during the Policy@MBS week at the University of Manchester, 30th October 2012, 4.00-6.00 PM

The workshop will showcase three inspiring case studies of involving users and communities in public services from the North-West. These examples show why co-production of health and wellbeing is a powerful approach for better outcomes or improved efficiency of public services. The workshop will also explore the ten most common barriers to scaling up co-production in public services and gather smart ideas from participants how to overcome these barriers. The co-produced results will be made available to all participants after the workshop! We are looking forward to your contributions so please spread the word about the workshop.

Co-Production in economic development, social services and health

- Dave Carter (Manchester Digital Development Agency) - Smart Cities, Smarter Citizens

- Helen Allen (Community Catalysts) - Co-producing micro-services 

 - Nick Dixon (Stockport MBC) - NESTA-funded People Powered Health project

Overcoming the barriers to co-production

- Elke Loeffler (Governance International) will set out the top ten barriers for scaling up co-production in public services which have been identified in Co-Production Star Training Workshops.

Scaling it up – Smart ideas for making co-production work in public services

- James Duggan (Coprodnet) will facilitate the discussion on how to overcome barriers of co-production and gather smart ideas for a co-produced pamphlet resulting from the workshop.  

Staying in touch!

All participants will be invited to sign up to the Manchester Co-production Network (Coprodnet) and online forum of Governance International in order to stay in touch with each other.