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- 01. What is co-production?
- Co production: A manifesto for growing the core economy.
- Right here, right now. Taking co-production into the mainstream.
- Think differently, think flexibly: think co-production!
- What is co-production, why would we do it and how can we implement it?
- The 5 principles of co-production illustrated
- A bunch of diagrams about co-production
Understanding the basics of co-production and its application
- 02. Case studies
- Beyond engagement and participation: User and community co-production of public services.
- Case study: Lambeth Living Well Network
- Case studies from Vanguard
- Case studies on the Ideas Hub
- How we make a difference together
- Me, Myself and I Club (Briton Ferry)
Documented case studies from Wales and the UK
- 03. Good practice
- Organisational innovation and integrated care: Lessons from Buurtzorg.
- New approaches to health (Well Doncaster)
- Co-production work and information from NDTi
- A strength-based and needs-led approach to support domestic abuse victims
- Fighting social isolation with community and art (Make it Better)
- Public services inside out: Putting co-production into practice.
Stories of good things happening and inspirational items
- 04. Research
- Co-production, interdependence and publicness: Extending public service-dominant logic.
- Collective action and the sustainability of co-production.
- InterAction: How can academics and the third sector work together to influence policy and practice
- Towards Co-Production in Research with Communities (paper)
- Effective Practitioner–Scholar Relationships: Lessons from a Coproduction Partnership (paper)
- Why people co-produce: Analysing citizens’ perceptions on co-planning engagement in health care services.
Research on co-production and co-produced research
- 05. Commissioning
- Community-led Action Research
- The future of commissioning (and more) from Collaborate
- National Commissioning Board Wales (social care)
- The Preston model
- Report: Funding and Commissioning in Complexity
- Guide to co-production with older people
Applying co-production to commissioning and procurement
- 06. Co-design and co-delivery
- Co-production – Sharing our experiences, reflecting on our learning.
- Getting things changed: disabled people’s organisations and co-production
- Person centered planning
- What is co-production, why would we do it and how can we implement it?
- How we make a difference together
- Co-designing with people with different learning styles and abilities
Co-producing in practice at service design and delivery stages
- 07. Evaluation (how to do it)
- Maximise Your Impact: A Guide
- A guide to evaluation (Big Lottery Fund / National Lottery Community Fund)
- Stories and numbers: Collecting the right impact data
- Logic models and theory of change
- Measuring What Matters (a thinking tool)
- Tents around a campfire: evidencing transformation
Evaluating co-production and measuring impact
- 08. Evidence (it works!)
- The many shades of co-produced evidence, Pippa Coutts (Carnegie UK)
- Guide: Evidence for Success
- Evidencing Genuine Co-Production in the Third Sector (Lozano-Casal P., 2017)
- Evaluating Co-Production: Pragmatic Approaches to Building the Evidence Base (Durose C., 2014)
- Spice evaluation of time credits impact (2014)
- Building Community Capacity: Evidence, efficiency and cost-effectiveness (quote)
Databank of evidence of the effectiveness of co-production
- 09. Sector specific
- Housing
- Learning disability
- Health (General)
- Health and wellbeing
- Getting things changed: disabled people’s organisations and co-production
- Prison and Probation Services
Collated resources for specific sectors or areas of practice
- 10. Supporting tools
- Psychologically Informed Environments – PIE
- Tools for evaluation
- Tools for communities.
- Reflection questions (by the Satori Lab)
- Revaluation: A participative approach to measuring and making change.
- Community Circles
Tools and methods to help you “do” co-production
- 11. Synergies with...
- Service Design
- Local area co-ordination
- Leadership
- Human centered design
- Open data
- Place based working
Co-production shares a values-base with these
- 12. Policy context
- A Healthier Wales: our Plan for Health and Social Care
- The SSWB Act and the WBFG Act
- Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
- Welsh Government Programme for government (2018) including Prosperity for All: the national strategy
- Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014
The legislation that sets the co-production tone in Wales
- 13. Building the Network
- Building a new cocial commons: The people, The commons and the public realm.
- CoproNet in a box
- CoproNet: the beginnings
How the Co-production Network for Wales came to be
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