Title image: What is co-production and why is it important?

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Introduction to Section 1 What is co-production? Why co-production? Participation and co-production What does co-production look like?
Introduction to Section 2 How to start co-production Methods and techniques Spotlight on lived experience panels Spotlight on facilitation techniques Supporting people in co-production
Introduction to section 3 Advocating for co-production The policy context Frameworks and tools
Introduction to Section 4 Reflecting, evaluating and learning Tips and helpful resources for evaluation

Co-production is about combining everyone’s strengths so that we can work together to achieve positive change. It means communities truly playing a part in how decisions are made - where things happen with people, instead of to them.

Too often public services are designed by people who don’t have direct experience of what it’s like to need or use them. Ultimately, decisions are made for people, not with them.

Using co-production we can do things differently. Co-production goes beyond participation and partnership working because it requires people to act together on an equal basis. It means we can all contribute our lived experience, skills and ideas about what works, to make our communities even better.

Done well, this can shift the balance of power – so that everyone feels they have worked together on decisions that make a real difference to people’s lives, reshaping how communities view their relationships with services.