Cardiff Policy Cafe Launch! Co-production: participation by a new name or something more radical?

[Ruth Dineen]

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

Policy Café Launch: February 26th, 5.30-7.00, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University

Co-production: participation by a new name or something more radical?

Professor Mark Drakeford: Assembly Member Cardiff West; Cardiff University; Ruth Dineen: Director, Co-production Training UK; Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University; Becky Booth: Chief Executive, Spice

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[Ruth Dineen]

Agreed! BUT I think that the radical element is in the overarching aim which is a shift in power from government/commissioners/professionals to citizens. This is implicit in your description (and I know its fundamental to the work you do in Glyn-Coch) but unless we make it explicit we won't get sustainable (i.e. permanent) change.

[Jenny O'Hara Jakeway]

Isn't co-production 'quality participation'? A concept which demand sense of equality between stakeholders, where everyone is seen as assets / agents of change, which requires us to move from traditional paradigms of social change where service users / community members are passive recipients who are possibly consulted, but not really a fundamental part of planning and delivery? This is so obvious to you all it is probably not worth mentioning, but I am very interested in your thoughts anyway!