Co-production Self-assessment Framework: a working reflection tool for practitioners
Useful guidance document produced by See Me Scotland which practitioners can use to review their own practice in relation to key components of coproduction.
Assets: transforming the perception of people from passive recipients of services and burdens on the system into one where they are equal partners in designing and delivering services.
Capacity: altering the delivery model of public services from a deficit approach to one that recognises and grow people’s capabilities and actively supports them to put them to use at an individual and community level.
Mutuality: offering people a range of incentives to engage which enable us to work in reciprocal relationships with professionals and with each other, where there are mutual responsibilities and expectations.
Networks: engaging peer and personal networks alongside professionals as the best way of transferring knowledge inside and outside of ‘services’.
Shared roles: removing tightly defined boundaries between professionals and recipients, and between producers and consumers of services, by reconfiguring the way services are developed and delivered.
Catalysts: enabling public service agencies to become facilitators of action rather than central providers themselves.
What is immediately clear is how much these definitions overlap with each other. Many of our questions could relate to more than one category, or even all of them. But that is simply a sign that co-production is one unifying idea, rather than a bundle of separate ones. Co-production in practice will involve alignment with all of these features, rather than only some components.