Sharing power well
Co-production, lived experience and trauma-informed engagement.
Around four hours on sharing power well: the roots of co-production, co-production in Welsh law and practice, lived experience and its leadership, trauma-informed engagement and fair payment for involvement.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 4 hours
- Where
- Communities and systems
- Price
- £69
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Commissioners, service leaders and engagement staff in social care, health, housing and the voluntary sector, particularly in Wales
Overview
Co-production is one of the most used and misused words in public services. This course comes from Voices that shape the work and returns to its roots in Elinor Ostrom's research, the Boyle and Harris definition and Edgar Cahn's core values, including reciprocity. It then turns to Wales, where co-production is written into law through the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 and the Well-being of Future Generations Act, with Local Area Coordination in Swansea as a case. Lived experience follows, from Baljeet Sandhu and Miranda Fricker to peer roles and Recovery Colleges. Last, it looks at trauma-informed engagement and paying and valuing lived experience.
Aims
It sets out to help leaders tell co-production from consultation and share power in budgets, recruitment, commissioning and governance, treating a legal duty as a floor rather than a ceiling, while working in a trauma-informed way and building fair payment into involvement from the start.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Distinguish doing to, for and with people, and place a service honestly on the co-production ladder.
- Apply the Co-production Network for Wales principles to identify where power can genuinely be shared in your organisation.
- Plan engagement that is predictable and offers real choice, with payment and support for participants costed in from the start.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Explain the origins of co-production in Ostrom's research and Cahn's core economy, and describe why reciprocity turns recipients into contributors.
- Describe the five principles of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, the section 16 duty and the involvement way of working, and explain why a legal duty is a floor rather than a ceiling.
- Distinguish lived experience, lived expertise and experts by experience, and explain why lived experience is a form of knowledge rather than only feedback.
- Explain Sandhu's lived, learnt and practice expertise and use them to identify which forms are missing from your leadership team.
- Explain why power, control, belief and trust make trauma relevant to engagement, and describe the SAMHSA and Trauma-Informed Wales principles.
- Explain the four reasons for paying people for lived experience work, including how unpaid involvement narrows who takes part.
- Apply Bovaird and Loeffler's four Co's and SCIE's four principles to identify where and how a service could share power.
- Apply the Co-production Network for Wales definition and five principles to identify where power can genuinely be shared in budgets, recruitment, commissioning and governance.
Built from 3 parts.
4 hours of learning.
- 01Sharing power in practiceCo-production theory and practice in WalesBitesize · Engagement and Participation2 modules
- 02Expertise earned the hard wayLived experience leadership explainedBitesize · Lived Experience2 modules
- 03Care, safety and fair rewardTrauma-informed engagement and fair paymentBitesize · Lived Experience2 modules