In this blog, Sam Jordan from Scottish Co-production Network explores some of the challenges we're facing around co-production - and the key questions to consider.
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In this Co-production Week Scotland blog, the Scottish Government’s Open Government team discusses how the Open Government Partnership can support co-production.
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In this blog, Pegs Bailey, National Third Sector Employability Partnership Engagement Manager, shares how taking a co-produced approach to planning employability commissioning strategy and infrastructure in Fife has led to better services.
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Stevan Sutherland describes how trust is essential in the co-productive process, reflecting on the co-production of a stigma toolkit which supports practitioners and families to take a more stigma-free and inclusive approach to delivering services in Scotland.
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Thom Stewart from An Áit Eile Cooperative shares a number of principles that are helpful in understanding co-production as an ethical approach to working with other people.
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Yesmin Begum shares her insights into the Health Literacy Project that she is involved in as a member of the Katie’s Team, a women’s health advocacy group in London.
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Michelle McBride, Volunteer Engagement Officer at VOX Scotland reflects on making co-production work and embedding these principles in their work. Voices of Experience (VOX) is Scotland’s mental health collective advocacy charity run by and for its members.
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In this blog, Niamh Smith from Health CASCADE reflects on her experiences at our August Ideas Clinic and on some of the challenges involved in creating an evidence-based training package which can truly help people to plan, govern, and conduct co-creation projects.
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In this blog, SCN’s Sheena Fletcher explores the challenges of identifying co-production and how we can capture examples that show it in action.
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In this blog, Zsara McEwan from Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS) reflects on the creation of a co-design remuneration and rewards policy which was co-designed as part of a wider project which aimed to change the way family support services are procured and designed.
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In this blog, Paul Stevenson from Bethany Christian Trust, reflects on his experiences presenting and sharing ideas at the co-pro ideas clinic in April this year.
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Developed with the With Us, For Us Lived Experience Project Group (LPEG), this comprehensive set of resources from the Scottish Recovery Network provided an opportunity for people living with trauma and/or who have been given a diagnosis of personality disorder to share their experiences of services and their ideas for change in a suite of co-produced resources.
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Voices of Experience (Vox) Scotland launched a co-production resource during Co-production Week Scotland in 2022 which supports mental health professionals and service providers to implement co-productive practice.
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Blog from the Co-Production Collective about a research programme looking at co-producing research into care planning. The blog was co-written by all members of the research programme steering group, including people with living, and learnt experience of dementia.
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This web resource describes some useful case studies of co-production undertaken by Mind and provides helpful links to further resources and discussion.
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The usefully illustrative ladder of co-production was developed by Think Local Act Personal and is used to describe co-production at strategic commissioning level, but it can be adapted to any of the other levels as well.
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In this blog series by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health, we hear different voices involved in the co-production of a peer advocacy training project in Glasgow and a peer-led evaluation of that training.
The ‘Our Rights, Our Communities’ project was run in partnership with Unity Sisters, Milk Café and Govanhill Baths Community Trust: Community in Action. It aimed to build a unique model of community-based advocacy replicable with Scottish refugee communities.
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This blog outlines some of the benefits and challenges of doing co-produced peer research online, as well as some practical tips for running online peer engagement workshops.
Read MoreThe “desire” to co-produce to create more tailored, specific services is the first step in a positive journey towards co-production - and a very positive one at that. 😊
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Sam Jordan is the Communications Manager at SCDC, which supports the Scottish Co-production Network. Here he shares some reflections on how we can learn from co-production practice.
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