Sarah Lyall's Blog – January 2013 Archive (4)

TOWARDS A CHOICE TO GIVE BACK

There is a famous story about a doctor’s surgery with a hedge outside.  I have never discovered where it actually is, but it tells us an important story about the future of choice.

The hedge is trimmed once a year in the summer and, when it is trimmed, all these rejected prescriptions fall out.  Patients come out of the door with a prescription they don’t real

ly want and shove it in the hedge. 

They are…

I was pleased to attend a MAC-UK open day to see firsthand the impact of the innovative North London mental health charity about which I had heard so much. Beginning as ‘Music and Change’ in 2008, MAC-UK engages some of the UK’s most excluded and deprived young people in therapeutic relationships that transform their mental wellbeing and make them far less likely to offend. Their target audience for…

Islington Council co-assess their youth provision with young people. A great adjunct to a co-produced service. It makes sense to evaluate  together that which you achieve together.

Check this out:

Islington Council's Co-produced Quality Assessment Framework for Youth Provision

An example of a tool for co-assessing services…

Happy New Year, co-production practitioners and friends!

We've been finding this round up of evidence by Think Local Act Personal very helpful. It has useful stats to help practitioners make the case for co-production. You can find it in our resources section and below.

Building Community Capacity: Evidence,…