Coproduction with Lived Experience
Coproduction is a way of working where organisations work in partnership with their service users and/or people with lived experience to design, review or deliver services
Coproduction requires everyone to work as equals to see each other’s perspectives and make decisions collaboratively that work for services and service users alike. This ensures that services cater to the needs of the people that use them.
When we talk about the lived experience of multiple disadvantages in health and social care, we are referring to people’s experiences of receiving support from services - particularly from organisations working in the areas of mental health, substance misuse, domestic abuse, housing, and criminal justice.
When we are working with people who have lived experience of contact with organisations, the experiences of how people are supported within those organisations are helpful for co-production purposes. It is not necessary for people to share their experiences of events that may have led them to seek help from support services.
If you’d like to talk to us about coproduction and lived experience, please drop us an email: administration@independentfutures.org.uk
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Independent Futures
Independent Futures is a group of people with lived experience who have faced multiple disadvantage. The group supports Changing Futures and other Bristol organisations to coproduce their services.
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A Starter Guide to Coproduction
This guide, created by Independent Futures (a group experienced in coproduction), outlines the group’s learning around essential elements of coproduction and discusses things we can all do to create the conditions for effective coproduction.
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Changing Futures Coproduction Principles
These principles were coproduced with professionals, service users and lived experience groups from across the health and social care sector in Bristol. These principles are the standards we are working towards when we coproduce with service users or people with lived experience.
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Coproduction Principles Webinar
What does good coproduction look like? How can you apply the six principles of good coproduction to your work practice?
One of our aims at Changing Futures was to get organisations from across Bristol to agree on a set of good coproduction principles that everyone could subscribe to and embed in their practice.
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What is co-production?
This video from the Scottish Coproduction Network provides a basic explanation of what coproduction is, and what it means within health and social care.
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What makes co-production different from participation?
This video describes what co-production is and how to develop co-productive approaches to working with people who use services and carers. It explains the difference between co-production and participation.
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Stronger Together: a coproduction toolkit
This toolkit contains a wealth of resources and examples of good coproduction and has been developed “to be accessible, relevant and transferable to a diverse range of people, places and projects”.
Read an overview of the toolkit, or view all the resources and materials here or via the button below.
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STAR (Shaping, Teaching And Responding)
STAR is a group of people with lived experience of using services at Second Step (Changing Futures’ partner organisation). People in STAR work with staff across areas of the organisation including in recruitment, assessing and shaping service delivery, and sitting on the board.
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Activating lived experience to create social change
Sunny Dhadley is a former drug addict who is using his lived experience to shape government policy on drugs and substance misuse. Listen to him share his story on the TEDx stage. Sunny Dhadley is a former drug addict who is using his lived experience to shape government policy on drugs and substance misuse. Listen to him share his story on the TEDx stage.
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Social Care Institute for Excellence
This page outlines the Social Care Institute for Excellence’s guide to coproduction. This is a comprehensive guide to how to reach a standard of good practice when coproducing work with service users and/or lived experience groups.
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Senior officer shares story of domestic abuse
Avon and Somerset Chief Inspector Sharon Baker shares her lived experience of domestic abuse in the hope that her words will inspire and empower other survivors to break the silence and seek help.