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This national programme, initiated by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), will bring together leaders from across the country to explore how senior leaders can grow and nurture local social capital in order to build stronger communities and improve health and wellbeing.  The programme, which has been developed through a partnership between the National Skills Academy for Social Care, Skills for Care, NHS South of England (Central), the Think…

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to let you know that the West Midlands Network met last Thursday (the 26th April). At the EC Arts 48Sheet Project Space in the Mailbox, Birmingham - massive thanks to EC Arts for hosting it.

The meeting was vibrant and informative with a bit of fun thrown in. 

The meeting included the following:

• a presentation from Claire Farrell from EC Arts about their public art project 48Sheet that has put artists' work…

A summary of this blog was first issued with Think Local Act Personal on 13th April 2012 via

http://www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/Blog/ReformingServices/

Original full paper issued 6th April, 2012, also available via - http://localareacoordination.wordpress.com/.

Local Area Coordination (LAC) and Asset Based Community…

Hello everyone,

Just a quick post to say that the notes from the last London Practitioners' meeting are now up on the website

Once again, thanks to Chris, Kronus, George and Mike for speaking!

If people would like notes of other network events added, please just email them to me (joe.penny@neweconomics.org)

many thanks

joe

Interesting things going on in Lambeth with the Lambeth Living Well Collaborative (a network of people who use services, their carers, service providers, commissioners, GPs and others). 'The Collaborative is a platform for people to come together to radically improve the outcomes experienced by people with mental health problems'.  They're moving towards co-producing new 'services' and co-producing strategy, supporting culture change and 'proto-typing' new approaches.

There's a new…

The first East Midlands Co-Production network meeting took place on the 24th April 2012. A big thank you to everyone that turned up and contributed. I will continue to update this site with developments and future meeting dates as they arise. The next one is pencilled in for Monday 11^th June 2.30 – 4.30, @ the Marlene Reid Centre in Coalville, Leics.

Any further information can be requested via myself @…

Community Catalysts are recruiting for a Micro Enterprise Coordinator in Hertfordshire. They're a great organisation doing lots of work with micro-providers to ensure that people can find personalised and co-produced support.

Sorry for the very short notice - closing date is tomorrow!

£28,000 - £30,000 pa pro rata 32 hours per week Contract term 14 months

Across the country there is push to give people control over how they get the care and support they need.…

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…

Dear all,

The WM Co-production Practitioners' Network meeting is fast approaching. It will take place next thursday (26th April), between 9:00am and 13:00pm.

The meeting will take place at the EC Arts 48 Sheet project space based on the ground floor of the Mailbox, Birmingham. (Click here for map and…

It’s probably not the best metaphor to use so close to the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, but it’s full steam ahead for a new co-production policy at SCIE (the Social Care Institute for Excellence).

SCIE's board approved a policy of working towards doing all our work in co-production with service users and carers last year and the implementation began with the appointment of Tina Coldham, a new service user representative to the board, in February. Tina’s role will include…

Hello,

earlier this evening I received a tweet from Frankie Hine-Hughes of Governance International(@fhinehughes) about a hot off the press interview with Edgar Cahn. This will definitely generate some buzz around the North Wales conference,Communities Can 2012 to be held 2 May,  thanks Frankie!…

AitT2 was held in Cardiff last week, hosted and facilitated by the lovely folk of Spice and attended by the great, the good and the highly attractive. Excellent presentation on People-powered health and changing organisational cultures by Nick Dixon, Spice CEO Becky Booth and Geoff Thomas, CEO of TimeBanking Wales told us about time banking,…

Early action to prevent harm will help to improve well-being, use resources more efficiently, build resilience and safeguard the future. It is a wise and sustainable approach. It matters equally for society, the environment and the economy. But it seldom happens. What can be done to put prevention at the top of the agenda for policy and practice, and make it real? nef (the new economics foundation) invites you a major conference bringing together experts from across the public, private and…

an interesting article written by Becky Malby, director of the centre for innovation in health management at the university of leeds outlining why co-production is the real reform needed for health and social care.

see what you think, NHS reform: a radical approach through co-production?

and I've copied a couple of neat summary…

Dear All,

April looks set to be a busy month for coproduction, with several regional practitioner events taking place in Wales, London, Scotland and Birmingham.

Read on to find out more and sign up to one or all…

Following on from the success at their last In this Together event (the presentations of which…

A follow up to 'a Glass Half Full' has been published, taking a more detailed look at the practice, evidence and evaluation of assets based approaches. It can be downloaded here: http://janefoot.com/downloads/files/healthy%20FINAL%20FINAL.pdf and will be put up in the resources library soon.

Thanks,

Julia

How can service design & innovation better connect Welsh citizens to the Wales coastal path?

£125k of funding is available through the Ordnance Survey's Geovation Challenge to develop innovative new ideas for…

Hello all,

The next London beased network meeting is going to be taking place at Praxis on the 18th of April.

The agenda is looking really good at the moment, with talks being led by Praxis, nef and Look Ahead. Have a look at the eventbrite page (below) for more information and to sign up for a place

http://londoncoproductionevent.eventbrite.co.uk/

look forward to seeing you there!

joe