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The content of this Promise was co-produced by local children, young people, parents, carers, adults and professionals from across the support system in Staffordshire.

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A case study example of co-production initiated at an individual and collective family level.

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Pledge your personal and/or organisational support for the commitments in the Promise to improve our practice, and in doing so improve the experiences of children and families receiving support.

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Doing Our Bit | The Doing Our Bit website

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Welcome to Staffordshire's Co-production Promise.

In 2022 Staffordshire Council of Voluntary Youth Services (SCVYS) was asked to support the creation of a Staffordshire Co-production Promise for the Children and Families system, as well as creating a toolkit to support those people responsible for providing services to enable them to do co-production well.

The Promise needed to include a local definition of co-production and some shared commitments to improve the experience of support as well as the outcomes from that support for families.

The content of this Promise has been co-produced by local children, young people, parents, carers, adults and professionals from across the support system over the last 18 months.

One small example of this is the logo you see on the Promise which was created by a young person from Lichfield District.

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Welcome to Staffordshire's Co-production Promise. In 2022 Staffordshire Council of Voluntary Youth Services (SCVYS) was asked to support the creation of a Staffordshire Co-production Promise for the Children and Families system, as well as creating a toolkit to support those people responsible for providing services to enable them to do co-production well.

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This toolkit has been created to support professionals who are responsible for providing services, enabling them to do co-production well.

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Starting a conversation around Co-production (Part 1)

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Starting a conversation around Co-production (Part 1)

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Learn more about the local definition of Co-production, what this means in practice, and key themes around sharing power, as equally as possible, and seeing people as experts and citizens, not patients.

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Starting a conversation around Co-production (part 1)

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Co-production in the wider context of Engagement (Part 2)

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Co-production in the wider context of Engagement (Part 2)

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Learn about where Co-production sits within the Ladder of Engagement, the different Levels of Co-production (Individual, Collective, Strategic) and the Models of Engagement such as Participation, Consultation and Co-design - and ultimately why Co-production is the gold standard.

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Co-production in the wider context of Engagement (part 2)

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Co-production impact: A resource to support impact assessment (April 2024)

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Co-production impact: A resource to support impact assessment (April 2024)

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This resource is designed to provide insights into how to identify the difference that co-production is making in your work.

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Co-production impact: A resource to support impact assessment - SCIE

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This resource is designed to provide insights into how to identify the difference that co-production is making in your work.

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Theory of Change - An approach to assessing the impact of co-production

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Theory of Change - An approach to assessing the impact of co-production

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This guidance is designed to help in defining a theory of change structure for your co-produced project including the targeted impact, outcomes, and activities.

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New guidance around using trauma informed language to support conversations across services in West Yorkshire.

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Toolkit providing a step-by-step guide to improving patient experience of health care using a technique called EBCD.

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EBCD: Experience-based co-design toolkit - Point of Care Foundation

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This toolkit gives a step-by-step guide to improving patient experience of health care using a technique called experience-based co-design (EBCD).

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Speakers shared good practice around coproduction, in particular around multi-agency integrated services and family hubs. They considered what joint delivery looks like and how we bring together the perspectives of all stakeholders – particularly children, parents and families - in the planning, design, delivery and management of family hubs.

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Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

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Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

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Co-production training and resources for health and social care managers commissioners, frontline practitioners, people who use services and carers. Improve participation and co-production with people who use services and carers to develop and deliver better social care and health provision.

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Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

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Co-production training and resources for health and social care managers commissioners, frontline practitioners, people who use services and carers. Improve participation and co-production with people who use services and carers to develop and deliver better social care and health provision.

National Co-production Week will be back for an 8th year to celebrate the benefits of co-production, share good practice and promote the contribution of people who use services and carers. Use our form to tell us what you're up to in Co-production Week.

View more: News

A project to empower people with learning difficulties to help other people with learning difficulties.

View more: Case studies

Enquire about tailored co-production training or consultancy support

Get SCIELine ebulletin & access all resources. Free MySCIE account

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Co-production training and resources for health and social care managers commissioners, frontline practitioners, people who use services and carers. Improve participation and co-production with people who use services and carers to develop and deliver better social care and health provision.

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NHS England Co-production resource toolkit

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NHS England Co-production resource toolkit

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Resources to support people to co-produce quality improvements together.  These were developed by We Coproduce and the Improvement team and the Experience of Care team at NHS England. Together they modelled a new way of working, with collective leadership and sharing power to foster culture change to improve care together.

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We are excited to share these resources which will support people to co-produce quality improvements together. These resources have been developed by We Coproduce and the Improvement team and the Experience of Care team at NHS England. Together we modelled the new way of working described in the resources, with collective leadership and sharing power to foster culture change to improve care together.

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 Co-production Network for Wales Knowledge Base

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Co-production Network for Wales - Knowledge Base

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Co-production Network for Wales - Knowledge Base

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The Co-production Knowledge Base aims to gather in one place a wealth of useful resources about all aspects of co-production.

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Co-production Network for Wales Knowledge Base - Co-production Network for Wales Knowledge Base

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Welcome to the Co-production Knowledge Base! We aim to gather in one place a wealth of useful resources about all aspects of co-production, and signpost to more. We are based in Wales so the policy section is specific to our devolved legislative context, but the rest of the information should be widely relevant regardless of your geographical location.

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The Staffordshire Co-production Kitemark logo was created by a young person from Lichfield District. To use it, organisations must be able to clearly evidence they are meeting the criteria outlined in Appendix 2 of the Toolkit document (Pg17).

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The Recovery Co-production Group is made up of current and past service users, Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (LEROs), Better Way Recovery, Chase Recovery and Burton Addiction Centre/Recovery Is Out There (RIOT), operational staff, management and volunteers from Staffordshire Drug and Alcohol Treatment System (STaRS) and other community groups.

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Co-Production within Drug and Alcohol Services in Staffordshire

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MPFT launched these materials (which are now part of the Care Group's co-production toolkit) in February.

A number of pledges were made by participants on the day and the themes from the workshop have been fed into the CYP mental health function and ICS board.

As a result of this work the CYP participation team have developed a lesson plan for schools, which maps to the PSHE curricula, on children's mental health, that uses the game Whose Shoes. This is being offered to schools in 2024/25.

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MPFT launched these materials (which are now part of the Care Group's co-production toolkit) in July 2024.

This project was in partnership with the Voice Project at Staffordshire County Council and the event was attended by Care Experienced Young People, Foster Carers, Corporate Parents, professionals and leaders across Health and Social Care in Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent.

The themes have been taken back into the Local Authority and this workshop gained the engagement of the new Director of Children's Social Care at SCC who is interested in using Whose Shoes more widely in the County Council.

There were some very powerful pledges generated at the event.

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Sway: Create and share interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and more.

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Sway is an easy-to-use digital storytelling app for creating interactive reports, presentations, personal stories and more. Its built-in design engine helps you create professional designs in minutes. With Sway, your images, text, videos, and other multimedia all flow together in a way that enhances your story. Sway makes sure your creations look great on any screen.

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CYPMH Participation team update (Aug 24) )

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The Stoke-on-Trent SEND Co-production Charter outlines the commitment, agreement and vision for co-production in the city.

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SUN Co-Production and Involvement Best Practice Guidance

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SUN Co-Production and Involvement Best Practice Guidance

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The Co-production and Involvement Audit is a simple self-assessment tool which helps organisations assess how effective they are at successfully adopting co-productive ways of working.

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Co-production & Involvement Audit: A self-assessment tool for organisations

The Co-production and Involvement Audit is a simple self-assessment tool which helps organisations assess how effective they are at successfully adopting co-productive ways of working. It consists of fifteen action statements, organised in accordance with the ‘five core principles of co-production’, each of which is given a score.

It provides a high-level snapshot of how you are doing, alongside an understanding of what is working, and what needs to be done to keep improving. The Co-production and Involvement Audit’s uses include supporting report writing and formal evaluations, external audits and internal periodic reviews.

Click here to open the pdf in a new tab, or right-click to download.
If you have difficulties reading this on screen, email us for a paper copy to be posted to you, or so we can look for a way to meet your needs.

Alternatively, click here to use the online tool and get your results in a downloadable pdf!

We’re developing the co-production and involvement audit tool for citizens and communities, and for academics and researchers. Watch this space!

This Co-production and Involvement Audit tool builds on an early version published in the Co-production Catalogue for Wales.

Other co-production audit tools:

See also… The Coproduction Self-Assessment Audit Tool nef (2011) This short self-assessment tool has been designed to help practitioners critically assess how deeply they have developed co-production. The framework encourages self-reflection around 8 principles:

1. Treating people as assets

2. Incorporating peoples’ skills and experiences into the design of services

3. Recognizing and celebrating peoples’ contributions

4. Sharing responsibility for the delivery of services

5. Valuing the work everyone contributes to achieve successful outcomes

6. Creating a culture of give and take between staff and people involved

7. Enabling people to find ways to support one another

8. Developing peoples’ networks as a core activity

And: Co-production – how are you doing? A self-reflection tool Inclusion North & Tricia Nicoll Consulting (2011) This tool uses Edgar Cahn’s 4 key principles of co-production and helps practitioners to score their work across the four areas as red, amber or green. Questions are asked to provoke changes towards deeper and more transformative practice of co-production. This is an easy-access, user-friendly resource and works well for self-reflection at multiple levels of an organisation/project. Inclusion North CIC is a not-for-profit organisation. It supports people to make inclusion happen. “The word ‘co-production’ is used a lot. It’s not always clear what people mean when they use it. At Inclusion North, co-production is about services and local people working together to design and deliver services and support. This is about real, genuine partnership. It’s not just asking people what they think. We have made a co-production reflection tool with Tricia Nicoll Consulting. You can use this tool to review and plan how you can make co-production real.”

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Co-production self-evaluation audit tool – Co-production Network for Wales Knowledge Base

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Sway: Create and share interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and more.

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Sway is an easy-to-use digital storytelling app for creating interactive reports, presentations, personal stories and more. Its built-in design engine helps you create professional designs in minutes. With Sway, your images, text, videos, and other multimedia all flow together in a way that enhances your story. Sway makes sure your creations look great on any screen.

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Easy Read Co-production Policy from Bristol

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Easy Read Co-production Policy from Bristol

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#DoWith - Very much aligned to our local co-production approach

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#DoWith - Very much aligned to our local co-production approach

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Do With: A Call To Action | The King’s Fund

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Do With is a network of people and organisations calling for a radical shift in the public sector from ‘doing to’ to ‘doing with’. Join the movement today.

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Creative co-production, interdisciplinary approaches, and the untapped power of arts, storytelling and relationships to transform healthcare. Guddi Singh has offered to speak with me about this but perhaps I could extend this invite. Really inspirational work Home

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66. Dr Guddi Singh - Radically reimagining health care - Wild Card - Whose Shoes?

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In this electric, soul-stirring conversation, Dr Guddi Singh joins me to explore what it truly means to radically reimagine health. From the frontline realities of paediatrics to the bold edges of creative health and social justice, Guddi brings h…

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Case study from Wirral - co-producing s*xual health services

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Case study from Wirral - co-producing s*xual health services

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Short case study on redesigning a service

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Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Listening to Care-experienced young people

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Listening to Care-experienced young people

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So, here it is. The film of our latest ‘Whose Shoes?’ event in Staffordshire, working with Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust. This time we are focusing on care experienced children and young people and what a learning curve it has been! Children and young people are our future. Let's acknowledge the challenges they face and give them the support they need.

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LISTENING to Care Experienced Children and Young People

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Do With: making the movement happen - online event

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Lots of content and examples of how Stoke-on-Trent is co-producing with it's citizens

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Expert Citizens - Insight through lived experience

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Changing Futures About us - Expert Citizens

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Changing Futures About us Changing Futures is a city wide team within Stoke-on-Trent Adult Social Care which supports people experiencing multiple disadvantage.

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Pause is a national charity supporting women who’ve had children removed from their care. In each episode of In a Mother’s Mind, women working with Pause interview professionals and sector experts, to discuss the issues they face and think about how they can work together to make things better. The podcast group has been named a 2025 Big Issue Changemaker for their work “raising awareness of inequality and deserving causes through communication”.

Pause Stoke has been commissioned since Dec 2023 and works with women across the Stoke City area.

We continue to support women locally to share their stories, raise awareness and ensure that they get access to the best support possible.

Co-Production with women is at the heart of what we do.

You can find our podcast across all Podcast Streaming Services and via Apple and Spotify and on our website. Follow the links below:

In a Mother's Mind: Reflection…–Pause and Listen – Apple Podcasts

https://open.spotify.com/episode/021PQPv4BFj7Q0NERwKlrI?si=vfJNep0ETy2l0lB6KoiFdg

Our Podcast - Pause – Creating Space for Change

www.pause.org.uk

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In a Mother’s Mind: Reflections on Housing

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Podcast Episode · Pause and Listen · 05/02/2024 · 18m

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Celebrating the emerging impact of this 4 year project.

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Ripples of our Staffordshire Work locally and nationally - lots of impact!

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How co-production, lived experience and community voice is shaping our work