Changing Lives, Delivering Success: Turning Ambition into Action Co-production workshop Purpose: to share and learn from each other’s experiences of co-production. We want you to be enabled to talk about your experiences, connect with others, discuss your concerns and opportunities to co-produce How? By placing your organisation on a ladder of participation and discussing how we overcome barriers to co-production.

Co-production - definitions ‘Co-production is about combining our mutual strengths and capacities so that we can work with one another on an equal basis to achieve positive change’ Scottish Community Development Centre (Scottish Co-production Network Host)

New Economics Foundation Toolkit 6 key components of co-production: 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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.

New Economics Foundation Toolkit 6 key components of co-production: 4. Networks: engaging peer and personal networks alongside professionals as the best way of transferring knowledge inside and outside of ‘services’. 5. 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. 6. Catalysts: enabling public service agencies to become facilitators of action rather than central providers themselves.

Ladder of Participation (new economics foundation) Place your own organisation on the ladder of participation 1. Pick a recent engagement activity - where are you on the ladder? 2. How are you enabling coproduction in your Community Planning Partnership?

Discussion To move up the ladder of participation; how do we overcome barriers around: 1. costs of co-production and empowerment 2. inequalities between those taking part 3. sharing power