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It's been my experience that many people involved in developing co-production work are linking to community currencies to support their work. If you are this conference might be of interest!

The 2^nd International Conference on Complementary Currency Systems will be held from the 19^th to the…

Putting the ‘Critical’ into Learning and Leadership for Reclaiming Co-production Practices – A Brief Think Piece

The argument presented is that the idea of co-production in its present form has a long journey to make in order to seriously be able to address the challenges of our times.  The positive potential of…

A few years ago I developed an evaluative framework for approaches to and processes for public engagement attempting to link legislation and policy to theoretical domains.  An overarching influence and driver being the Human Rights Act developing the argument that citizens have a right to be listened to by those making decisions that affect them.  Thus some stereotypical approaches to consultation or involving citizens and service users may not be good enough as they might not be proactively…

#copro Open Letter sent to Welsh Government asking that co-pro principles are placed at the heart of our public services. Down to the Senedd in our best frocks at 2.00 to hand in hard copies. On BBC Wales at 6.30.

Please shout about it and help us change the world!

Tomorrow we send the Open Letter to the Welsh Government asking that co-pro principles are placed at the heart of our public services. 256 signatures from orgnaisations and individuals in Wales, and 25 supporting statements from USA, Canada, Australia, Scotland and England. Makes for a cheering and revolutionary read.

To view…

Friends,

Joanne Fearn from the Cabinet Office is a co-production enthusiast and is involved in setting up the new Public Service Transformation Network which was announced by the Chancellor in last month's budget.

The Network does not have a website as yet, but Joanne shared this helpful information with us.

It's hoped that the Network will…

Hi all,

I've just added some more resources to our pages on Transitioning to Co-production and Health.

Here are the main ones:…

Peer to peer learning

Hi all,

Are you aware of the Peer2Peer Network? It is a network of service user groups, voluntary organisations, other statutory service providers, all deidcated to sharing information, resources, advice and good practice around peer support.

Please find attached the latest newsletter of the Network.…

BBC Wales political producer Toby Mason, clearly a man of fine understanding and revolutionary zeal, has heard about the Open Letter, and the joys of co-production and intends to make a programme about it all for the telly.

AND he's planning to schedule it to go out just before the Open Letter wings its way to the Welsh Government's First Minister Carwyn Jones on 25th April. How's that for a bit of news to cheer us up in the midst of cuts, angst and…

A quote that really applies to the scaling up of coproduction question

“There’s no problem with upscaling if you’re doing something like buying paperclips. But most public services rely on human relationships, so upscaling leads to a huge degradation in the quality of service.”

Peter Holbrook, CEO of Social Enterprise UK

Keep 'em coming!

Thanks all.

The evaluation of the Wandsworth Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Service has been launched! Wandsworth IAPT is a project delivered in partnership between Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network (WCEN) and South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. The London Network heard about the work at our January regional meeting.

You can read the evaluation here: …

On 28th March we are sending an Open Letter to the First Minister in Wales asking the co-pro principles are placed at the heart of our public services. Mark Drakeford, our new Health Minister, is a long-term co-pro champion and is committed to ensuring that our voices are heard at Cabinet level. Please help us make them as loud as possible!

Only people living/working in Wales can sign the letter, but messages of…

Details of a 'stakeholder consultation event' which might offer opportunities to better co-produce drug and alcohol recovery services.  

'North Yorkshire are in the process of a major reconfiguration/transformation of services for adults who misuse substances (drugs and alcohol). The purpose of the transformation is to develop a more recovery-orientated system for the county, rooted in realising the assets of local communities. This will be achieved by a full,…

Hello everyone,

Just a quick message to say that I have set up a group on this site for anyone and everyone interested in what coproduction can bring to young people's services 

At nef we have been doing a lot of work over the past 18 months in Lambeth, Cornwall and Islington on how coproduction can be…

Coproduction at the heart of reshaping youth services in Cornwall

Like many Local Authorities across England, Cornwall is not alone in grappling with the tightening public purse. The challenge is on to continue providing youth services which make a real impact on young people’s lives, and reduce the need for complex and specialist services. For the past year we have been working with nef on a specific…

These might be of interest to people interested in using community currencies to underpin their co-production activities.

John Rogers is running a series of three introductory webinars on the subject of local currencies in March and April.



Full details and booking instructions for "Let's Make Money" at Eventbrite:…