Spotlight on: Lived experience panels and co-production
It is important to involve experts through experience in co-production. Involving such experts will allow for their skills and experience to be considered in planning and shaping services and activities, ensuring that they are fit for purpose and meet local needs.
Lived experience (or experts by experience) panels are becoming increasingly more popular in the co-pro landscape, emphasising the growing recognition of their value.
Such panels, however, require to be carefully facilitated, especially in cases where the subject matter has the ability to restimulate trauma from past experiences.
This Spotlight resource from our Co-production Guide takes you through the main things to consider when thinking about introducing a lived experience/experts by experience panel to your co-production work.
Access the resource, which is part of Co-production in practice section of the guide.