1. The People’s Parliament in Sandwell:
What good coproduction looks like to us
25th October, 2016
18th October 2016

2. Mental Health Parliament MP Lucy Dunstan
Leon Blake
Mental Health Parliament MP
Lucy Dunstan
Deputy CEO, Changing Our Lives
Both

3. Sandwell’s Crisis Care Concordat Action Plan
52 people with lived experience of mental health crisis coproduced the action plan.
The Peoples Parliament is currently working on the priorities which have emerged from the Crisis Care Concordat and updating the Crisis Care Concordat action plan in partnership with SMBC and CCG commissioners so that it reflects progress and work still to be achieved. The action plan will cross reference:
The Quality of Life (mental health) standards
CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework
The second version of national Crisis Care Concordat action plan
The CCG 5 year Forward Plan
Lucy

4. What is the People’s Parliament?
The People’s Parliament is a strategic body led by MPs with lived experience of mental health difficulties.
Its function is to hold decision makers to account for improvements in services and supports so that people who experience mental health difficulties can have an improved quality of life and be in greater control of their own wellbeing. 
Leon

5. The Parliament is rooted in Changing Our Lives’ rights based approach; it is not a platform for consultation or a vehicle to hear ‘user views’.
The Parliament takes key strategic issues that affect the lives of local people and working in coproduction with senior decision makers (e.g. Health and Wellbeing Board) and local commissioners, develops solutions that put people in greater control of their own lives.
Leon

6. Changing Our Lives invest in local people through a leadership development training programme.
MPs are the people that are successful within this programme and go on to lead the work of the Parliament. This means you may only ever see us!
Further opportunities for leadership development enable MPs to strengthen skills, understanding and knowledge to enable us to fulfill our role.
Leon

7. We take a community development approach
We take a community development approach. This means we have and will continue to work with local people with recent lived experience of mental health difficulties to inform the strategic decisions that the Parliament makes.
The nature of mental health means that MPs can sometimes be unwell or in crisis, so regular personal development sessions help to support us in our personal lives as well as our work.
Leon – White Paper was developed and launched at the first Parliament

8. The Quality of Life (mental health) standards
The Quality of Life (mental health) standards were developed in coproduction with people who have either current or recent lived experience of mental health problems.
People themselves know their own situation best and it is only by working together with people on the basis of equality and trust that real solutions can be created that lead to positive change and meaningful outcomes for people.
Leon – first bit of work to come out of the Parliament

9. The standards start from the principle that we are all able to live an independent, ordinary and full life with the right support. We all need support in our lives and we are all interdependent.
Good mental health is everyone’s business and no one should have to face a mental health problem alone.
Leon

10. The standards are based on a human rights approach
The standards talk about people being in control of their own lives, having the chance to take part in social and educational opportunities, training, volunteering and employment, as all of these things support the process of individual recovery. The standards focus on:
prevention
wellbeing
recovery
independence
Leon

11. empowering people to lead the lives they want to lead
The standards expect services and supports for people with mental health problems to have the overarching aim of:
empowering people to lead the lives they want to lead
to keep themselves and their families healthy
to learn
be able to work
be active in safe and resilient communities
Leon

12. The standards are split into two areas: The basics
Being in control of my own life
My voice
The way people work with me
Mental Health Crisis Support
Before a crisis
During a crisis
Recovery and staying well
Leon gives a personal overview of some of the areas that are important to him and why

13. Using the standards
Lucy

14. The Quality of Life (mental health) standards have been coproduced with local people with current or recent lived experience of mental health problems because we believe that people themselves know what good recovery focused support should look like.
Coproduction is a simple idea. It's about individuals, communities and organisations having the skills, knowledge and ability to work together, create opportunities and solve problems.
People’s needs are better met when they are involved in an equal and reciprocal relationship with professionals and others, working together to get things done. This is the underlying principle of coproduction. It’s about co-designing, co-developing and co-delivering.
The standards are a tool that can be used in a variety of ways to drive change. We want to use them in three key ways.
Lucy

15. 1. Person centred reviewing
Quality of Life reviews are a person centred way of checking the quality of a service from the perspective of people who use the service.
Reviews will be led by trained leaders from Changing Our Lives who have lived experience of mental health services. This is a paid role.
Lucy

16. Each review will vary in methodology but all will have two key elements: investigation and exploration of patient experience and the development of best practice.
Standards will be written into service specifications by the CCG and the Local Authority. The CCG are currently working on this and this will happen at the Local Authority as contracts come up for re-tender and as new services are developed. The standards will therefore become a contractual obligation.
Lucy

17. 2. Practice development
Programmes of practice development co-led by people with lived experience will be delivered to teams of staff working in mental health services.
The sessions will be crafted very carefully dependent on the needs and approaches of each team and sessions take a very developmental approach. The standards are used to inspire and stimulate recovery focused approaches, challenge assumptions, shape thinking and stimulate cultural change in working practices.
The practice development sits hand in hand with the work of the reviews by tackling the issues that were identified.
Lucy

18. 3. Ideas Festivals
An Ideas Festival is a tool for working in coproduction with a focus on people with lived experience of mental health problems and the community. They may also involve service providers and commissioners to generate ideas.
These events are creative and will be used to bring the community together to develop new, exciting and innovative ideas and solutions to develop services and supports for local people. Some of the ways we want to use this approach include
Developing community places of safety in Sandwell
Creating a consortium of employers who are positive about employing people with mental health problems
Lucy

19. Thank you1 www.changingourlives.org ask@changingourlives.org