Co-production group and team

Our Voice co-production group

Our Voice is a strategic co-production group who meet regularly with our co-production team to think about what needs to happen to grow co-production in adult social care. The group originally came together to create the Better Together Plan [Word] and are now helping us to implement this.

These are the group’s principles for working together:

• we will all value and work with people’s skills, knowledge and interests to improve services
• we will all let people know what we are learning and achieving through co-production
• we will make sure that any person or group of people that want to be involved is included
• we will use language, written information and other kinds of communication that works for all
• we will be honest and open to promote mutual trust
• we will take time to look at how we do things and change them if we need to.

Co-production team

We have recently established a co-production team to help everyone across the council increasingly involve people with lived experience in their work. Whilst the team does some co-production activity themselves, their main aim is to spread the word about co-production, encourage and facilitate those with lived experience to participate in co-production activities and equip other members of staff to do this well.

How the co-production group and team work

Our Voice meet every two to four weeks either in person or online. The group is co-chaired by Our Voice member, Ed Lowe, and the co-production team. Expenses and involvement payments can be claimed.

Learn more about some of the group by reading their biographies [Word] and their purpose by reading their terms of reference [Word].

If you are interested in joining Our Voice, visit the get involved page.