Co-production: Theory and practice

1. Co-production: Theory and practice Julia Slay nef (the new economics foundation)

2. 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 co-produced in this way, both services and neighbourhoods become far more effective agents of change.”

3. What isn’t co-production? Personal budgets Co-design Volunteering User led organisations Evaluating services Consultation The state stepping back

4. 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’

5. 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

6. The value of co-production • Better outcomes • Improved capacity • Preventing needs arising

7. Now over to you… How can Glasgow use coproduction to improve homelessness services?

8. Interested in reading more? www.neweconomics.org www.coproductionnetwork.com