Overview of co-production and partnership working

The presentation by Jacqui Lovell, Survivor Researcher Network Director, at the August Discussion and Support Group meeting, available in video form, together with the slides used. Themes include: definition of co-production, People, power and process in research, and an example of eurocentricity in mental wellbeing and mental ‘health’ research.

Reflecting on eighteen years of working and using health services with both patients and staff, this paper outlines how co-productive relationships are different from non co-productive relationships.

This document interrogates co-productive relationships using the four principles of the British Psychological Society (BPS) (2018) code of ethics: respect, competence, responsibility and integrity. It concludes that co-productive relationships appear to have different ethical properties from other forms of helping relationships.

Presentation slides about how co-production supports the growth of shared space and blurs boundaries.

Bringing together academics, artists, practitioners and ‘community activists’, this book explores the possibilities for, and tensions of, social justice work under the contemporary drive for community-orientated ‘impact’ in the academy.

Editorial about whether co-production can work for mental health.

Independent inquiry considering the future for civil society, examines the environment in which civil society operates, the many pressures and changes it faces, and engaged groups, networks, organisations and individuals to develop a shared understanding of what the future might hold, and the role of civil society in shaping it.

This report tells the stories of people who are improving public services by working with the people who use them and delivering public services in a radically different way. These examples have at their heart equal and reciprocal relationships between professionals, people using services, their families and neighbours – an approach known as ​‘co-production’.

'A Glass Half-full' offers a fresh perspective on how to reduce inequalities in community health and wellbeing. It proposes assessing and building on the strengths and resources in a community to increase resilience and social capital, and develop better ways of delivering health outcomes.

The Position Paper 10 by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) shows how through an integrated way of working the participation of people from seldom-heard groups can be enabled.

Shaping Our Lives produces research and reports into involving diverse communities in policy, planning and delivery of services. This is their catalogue of resources, dating back to 1996. You can sort or search the resources by name, date of publication or type of report.

A series of resources published by Lankelly Chase.

This paper aims to provide the basis for both a better understanding and a stronger evidence base for co-production. Given the current diversity of uses of the term, this paper also explains what coproduction isn’t. It demonstrates why, properly understood, co-production looks set to create the most important revolution in public services since the Beveridge Report in 1942.

A report detailing ideas on how academics and the voluntary and community sector can work together to influence policy and practice.

What is co-production? Who is doing it? Why do it? In the context of public service delivery in Wales

This guidance is for integrated care boards, NHS trusts, foundation trusts and NHS England. It supports effectively partnership working with people and communities to improve services and meet the public involvement legal duties. It includes a diagram of the different ways of working with people and communities (also known as 'the start with people flower diagram')

A co-produced resource exploring barriers to co-production and ways to address them, specifically in a mental health context. This guide provides you with some essential information, a bit of encouragement, and a lot of wisdom from people who’ve been successful in developing co-production.

This is the first of a series of Co-production Learning Reports produced as part of the Evaluation of Age Better in Sheffield. It focuses on understanding the Age Better in Sheffield approach to co-production and identifying wider lessons for co-productive approaches within and beyond Sheffield.

Have a read of the news section of our main website for a variety of resources, examples of co-production and much more

This book examines the concepts of co-production and co-creation and their application in practice.

This briefing paper teases out the challenges and opportunities around co-producing evidence appropriate to participatory social policy and practice, and increasing people’s control within communities and services.