Co-production:
Theory and practice
Julia Slay
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What is co-production?
“Co-production means delivering public services in
an equal and reciprocal relationship between
professionals, people using services, their families
and their neighbours. Where activities are coproduced in this way, both services and
neighbourhoods become far more effective agents
of change.”
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What isn’t co-production?
Co-design
User led organisations
Personal budgets
Volunteering
Evaluating services
Consultation
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The state stepping back
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Example 1: Holy Cross Centre Trust
Use a TimeBank model to achieve co-production
• Aim to be more than a mental health day care centre
• Seek to bring in and harness wider community assets –
unleashing spare capacity
• Use a TimeBank model
• Ethos of not doing anything for an individual that they can do
for themselves – hardest barrier is stopping professionals
‘delivering’
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Example 2: Scallywags nursery
Everyone has a role to play
• Provides ‘more for less’ with parent’s own time so the cost of
childcare is much cheaper
• Uses parents as an asset in the delivery
• Emphasises need for ‘give and take’ between staff and parents
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The value of coproduction
• Better outcomes
• Improved capacity
• Preventing needs arising
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Now over to you…
How can Glasgow use coproduction to
improve homelessness services?
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Interested in reading more?
www.neweconomics.org
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www.coproductionnetwork.com
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