Co-production Wales Empowers Users to Co-create Better Public Services

Posted by Co-production Wales on July 21, 2014

Co-production Wales Empowers Users to Co-create Better Public Services

Back in 2012, we started a research project on the co-production of public services. It soon became a political campaign and has now developed into an organisation, Co-production Wales, actively influencing at all levels of Welsh public services. Who are we and how did we do it?

The Start of our Journey

At our very beginnings we didn’t know much about co-production at all. We are Noreen Blanluet (that’s me) and Ruth Dineen – Ruth’s background is teaching art and design, mine is healing, coaching and personal/professional development. Ruth started the ball rolling at the end of 2011 in response to her son Ben asking her to put together a co-production resource. She was semi-retired and wondering what to do with the time that her grannying duties left her with. Ben was (and still is) head of Spice Innovations in Wales, a social enterprise setting up Time Credits networks – a most co-productive way of engaging and empowering citizens, and enabling them ultimately to shape the public services that support them. At the time, there was no resource for people interested in co-production to find out more, access case studies, connect with others,… so following Ben’s prompt, that’s what Ruth set out to build.

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