Adult Health and Social Care Forum

Wednesday 29 JanuaryCambridge House

Understanding Coproduction Andy Boaden, CAS

“Co-production means delivering public services in an equal and reciprocal relationship between professionals, people using services, their families and their neighbours. Where activities are co-produced in this way, both services and neighbourhoods become far more effective agents of change.”

NESTA, Coproduction Catalogue

What is co-production?

Adult Social Care review of the way the Council, service providers and service users work together to design and deliver services

CAS to give VCS perspective of current working relationships & recommend how these could develop

What’s being done about it?

150 organisations surveyed 33 survey responses 10 organisations interviewed Report submitted to Southwark Adult Social

Care

What did we do?

93% of orgs work with Adult Social Care, most commonly to identify need.

~50% of orgs agreed that ASC engage at the right time & on the important things

Only 33% agreed enough time given to contribute and whether the contributions were used effectively

More flexible engagement & resources to work with minority communities

Appetite for VCS to do more!

Findings

ASC communications fair to good on relevance, timing & clarity

CAS bulletins & forums & ASC stakeholder events most common way to keep up with developments

VCS need voice at strategic level but efficacy of the strategic partnership boards questions

Findings (cont)

Engaged at the earliest possible stage Joint long term vision for design and

delivery of social care services. Open, transparent and accountable. VCS representation should be reflective of

the diversity of local communities Investment in developing providers,

networks, innovation & collaboration Greater integration

What would ideal relationship with ASC look like?

The Health and Wellbeing Board should endorse coproduction

CAS & Adult Social Care to explore how to make communications fuller, more structured and cohesive

Engagement work to be conducted around themes rather than client groups

Setting the foundations for coproduction

Supporting and developing established networks and community groups

More joint ASC/Clinical Commissioning Group engagement work and commissioning.

Extending reach and improving integration

Training for organisations to co-produce with their service users

The Innovation Fund

Developing co-productive practices in the VCS

Adult Social Care Senior Management to review report & recommendations

Inform ASC coproduction strategy CAS to monitor progress and report back via

health and social care network

Questions?

Next steps