Ruth Dineen's Blog (82)

Stunning co-pro innovations session in Cardiff today with Chris Vanstone from Australia. If you get a chance to meet him, grab it! And TACSI's work is hugely inspiring. Really energising stuff...

Thanks Chris (and Emily).

a fantastic opportunity to hear from the Director of Co-design, Australian Centre for Social Innovation 

Date: Wednesday 24^th July 3.00-5.00

Venue: Baltic House, Cardiff Bay

Bookings via…

for non-designers, designers and co-prodders everywhere: a free course in design for social innovation from the brilliant OpenIdeo

http://plusacumen.org/courses/hcd-for-social-innovation/

'How can co-production be used to create self-empowered, resilient communities?'

Monday July 15, 3.00-5.00, Rhyl

An opportunity for us all to get together in the same room and have a 'big conversation'.

Booking via Eventbrite. Contact Pam Luckock via the Wales Network page for more info.…

Just come back from a S.Wales Network meeting hosted by the lovely Steve and Claire from United Welsh Housing. Speakers were as awesome as ever which led me to put out a plea for everyone to stop hiding their dazzling lights under bushels and post up links to their awesomeness on this site.

Twelve lovely people have committed to do just that, within two…

#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…

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…

Keep 'em coming!

Thanks all.

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…

Tuesday: great Spice training event with the very jolly folk of Carmarthenshire Council Housing Services who are aiming to co-produce their perfect community through a time-credit project. Wednesday: invigorating co-pro seminar and discussion with Voluntary Action Merthyr Tydfil, supported by WCVA who are spreading the co-pro word like…

Monmouth CC have organised a FANTASTIC line-up for our next Network meeting. 21st Feb, 1.30-4.30 at St Mary's Priory Centre, Monk Street, Abergavenny. Diana Reynolds from WG will tell us about co-pro innovations at the heart of government; Simon Burch and Julie Boothroyd will talk about MCC's approach to co-pro social care and Mike Logan will give a presentation on co-operative transition planning with families. Cynnal Cymru will update us on their move to co-produced sustainable development…

Co-production is on a roll in Wales with new events, innovations, projects and people springing up in all directions. We've also got a great opportunity to get co-pro at the heart of our social services through the publication of the draft Social Services & Well-being Wales Bill which is a really positive step towards citizen-empowerment and partnership working.

As part of our campaign we have written an open letter to the First Minister asking that co-production is enshrined at…

Cardiff Policy Café: engaging with research, policy and practice: All welcome.…

• Public Meeting: October 25th, 7:30pm, Big Sleep Hotel, Cardiff

  organised by Compass…

Colette & David Neal are running a Co-production and Community Development event in Rhos on Sea on 13 November. All welcome - full details on Wales Network page.

About 30 of us attended the Wales Network meeting in Swansea yesterday with lots of new faces and plenty of delectable old ones (in the experiential sense). Nick Andrews provided the venue, cups and water/juice; Rick Wilson from Community Lives Consortium gave us a provocative presentation on developing social as opposed to anti-social services (taken from his PhD in progress - it's going to be a great read!) and…

All in this Together 3: Co-producing Resilient Communities, went down a storm. More information about the speakers and their presentations is on the All in this Together blog and we hope to put up the slide presentations and graphic visualisations on the blog and on the Network site next week.

Some 460 people from 217 organisations have been involved with AitT in one…