Where next for localism and co-production?

[Tim Hughes]

Last month, Involve and Consumer Focus co-hosted a seminar exploring ‘Where next for localism and co-production?’ The event brought together a group of 27 individuals from national government, local government, the voluntary and community sector, the social innovation field, academia and think tanks to explore some of the challenges and opportunities for localism and co-production in the coming years.

It drew upon recent primary research into participation and active citizenship – ‘Hands Up and Hands On’, launched at the event by Consumer Focus, and ‘Pathways through Participation’, by NCVO, IVR and Involve – as well as some case studies of localism and co-production being put into action.

After the seminar, we produced an online event report with summaries of what we discussed and posts from a few of the participants which you can access here: http://wherenextlocalism.posterous.com/ Please feel free to leave any comments or questions on the posts.