Sarah Lyall's Blog (27)

The Lambeth GP Food Co-op is a cooperative of patients, doctors, nurses and Lambeth residents who work together to grow food. It is funded by Lambeth Council and NHS Lambeth Clinical Commissioning Group. The Co-op began in March 2013, building gardens inside GP surgeries which are designed to enable patients and others to learn how to grow food in a safe and secure environment. They are now working with 10 GP surgeries across the Borough, with new surgeries set to join in 2015/16. The Co-op…

Last week the London Co-production Practitioners Network met for a session hosted by Latimer Creative Media. Together we developed our personal Co-production Stories and our Story of Self. We experimented with social media, tweeted #MyCoProStory and made short film clips.

We learned that...

• Stories help communicate values to people by engaging their emotions
• Stories can motivate others to act with us - in ways that only providing a laundry…

I am pleased to announce that the next meeting will be hosted by Latimer Creative Media at the BFI Southbank on Thursday 10th July, 10:00 to 12:30.

We will be exploring the theme of Storytelling for Co-production with various activities and challenges. Should be a lot of fun – as well as useful.

You can register on Eventbrite here -…

This blog from my colleague at NEF, Juliette Hough, comes highly recommended! It's all about how being in control matters, and how we can get there. I have posted an excerpt below. Please share and discuss!

Example tweet: Being in control matters. What does it mean for our lives? bit.ly/1lok8XJ…

The Joint Improvement Team together with the Scottish Co-production Network and third sector partners are organising the 3rd Scottish Co-production Conference in Edinburgh, on the 23rd April.

Below is a call for proposals from Olivia Hanley (Co-ordinator of the Scottish Co-production Network). Co-production…

This event is in Bradford – and looks exciting. Fitting well with co-production principles, it's "not about listening to speakers but listening to each other and our varied experiences and knowledge."

The ICPS invites you to...

A conversation about community organising and activism in today's Britain.

• How do we approach organising and activism in communities today?

• What are we learning about power and change?

• How do we engage with politics in an age…

https://latimeryouthvoices.eventbrite.co.uk/

We believe that young people should be at the heart of the discussion of youth issues. 

Youth Voices provides a platform for young people to engage with practitioners, heads of youth services and commissioners to share unique insights and best…

A launch event for the South London Experience Network.

Governor’s Hall, St Thomas’s Hospital, 9.30am - 1.30pm.

"Time to clean up our act …

We are fully aware that, all too often, experiences of people accessing health and social care services across South London fall short of what is expected. This network will be a way to share and learn across South…

You are all invited to a Co-Production Conference on Thursday 24th October 2013, hosted by INLOGOV, LARIA and Governance International.

 

The central issue for the day will be: What is the

evidence on when and how co-production can be a cost-effective solution for local government services? The questions that will be explored in particular include:

• To what extent can public service co-production reduce demand on services through more prevention?
• To what…

Our next meeting of the London Co-production Practitioners' will be held at the City of London Guildhall in Moorgate and will focus on Tools for Co-production in Services. The event will be hosted by Spice, a social enterprise that develops agency timebanking systems for communities and public services 'that engage and empower the many rather than the few'. Spice are interested in how…

Hello Co-production Network!

HERE is an interesting offer for anyone involved in co-production – in policy, as a practitioner, as someone who uses services or has lived…

Having worked with People's Health Trust, I know that they're committed to funding projects that build on local control and autonomy. Co-production - done well - is right up their street! They've just opened up their Active Communities funding stream for smaller organisations to more areas around the country. I'd advise you to check it out and spread the word to local organisations that you work with.

More info below:

Looking for local funding?

Local…

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:…

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: …

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,…

Hi all,

I've just added some new reports to our Resources section. Hopefully these will be of help to many of you.

1. Report from the North-West Practitioners Network on their October session with Governance International and Coprodnet

This includes practitioner discussions of what is and what is not coproduction, insights into how to boost co-production and a series of great case studies. Well worth a…