All in this Together Newsletter – Putting co-production at the heart of public services in Wales

Posted on June 3, 2013 by dchegwen13

Hi please see the link below to the All in this Together Newsletter for June 2013 which gives an update on the Open Letter that was delivered in support of co-production of public services to the First Minister, the Cabinet, and the leaders of the other parties on 1st May.

All in this Together Newsletter 3 – 1st June 2013

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All in This Together – Co-Production Wales

Posted on May 13, 2013 by dchegwen13

Co-production Network:
4th meeting in the South Wales area

This is an early announcement to put the date in your diary.

The next meeting of the Co-Production Network in South Wales will be held onWednesday 19th June at United Welsh offices in Caerphilly from 1.30 – 4.30pm. 

All comers welcome – members and non-members, from Wales and across the border. Agenda being put together, to be updated asap. Please get in touch with Claire Jenkins at United Welsh if you would like to give a presentation about your co-pro project at this meeting.

You can already book your ticket for this (free) event at:

http://copronet4.eventbrite.co.uk/

Visit the Wales Co-production group at:

http://coproductionnetwork.com/group/walescoproductiongroup

Updates and details to come, and look out for our next newsletter at the end of May!

Noreen & Ruth
Copyright © 2013 All in this Together (Coproduction Wales), All rights reserved.

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Kittens are evil Wales – Heresies in Public Policy

Posted on May 13, 2013 by dchegwen13

A Major National Conference on Results Based Accountability on Results Based Accountability is being held on

Wednesday 10th July, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Metropole Hotel, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales (refreshments from 9:30 a.m.)

£45 (plus VAT)

Are you moving away from using numerical targets and crude outputs to manager your performance?  have you started using outcome measures instead?  Does this feel like a step in the right direction?

Please see the link below for more information

Kittens Wales Flyer

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Co-producing Wales – Open Letter updates

Posted on April 30, 2013 by dchegwen13

Tomorrow we send the Open Letter to the Welsh Government asking that co-pro principles are placed at the heart of our public services. 256 signatures from organisations and individuals in Wales, and 25 supporting statements from USA, Canada, Australia and UK. Makes for a cheering and revolutionary read. Links to everything are on the All in this Together website and the Co-production Practitioners Network.

Thanks to all of you for your fantastic support!

BBC Wales will be featuring the campaign on Wales Today (BBC1) at 6.30pm on 1st  May, with a focus on Swansea’ s Time 2 Meet. The campaign will also be featured on Newyddion (S4C) at 9.00pm on 1st May, with a focus on Glyncoch Communities First initiatives.

Mark Drakeford has been interviewed for both these programmes. There may also be a mention on Good Morning Wales (BBC Radio Wales) at 6am on 1st May - to be confirmed!

Click on Wales, the IWA news magazine, is featuring the campaign and The Guardian Social Care Network will be publishing an piece on Thursday. The Western Mail / Wales Online also ran an article on the campaign today and WCVA will be blogging about it tomorrow.

Please do tweet/blog/shout about this – the more noise the better.

(We tweet as @WalesCoPro, and we will retweet you!)

Many thanks – Ruth Dineen

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Ruth Dineen started a new discussion “Co-pro campaign on BBC Wales!” on Co-production practitioners network

Posted on April 5, 2013 by dchegwen13

Ruth Dineen started the discussion “Co-pro campaign on BBC Wales!” in the group Wales Co-production group on Co-production practitioners network

To view this discussion, go to:

http://coproductionnetwork.com/group/walescoproductiongroup/forum/topic/show?id=5217382%3ATopic%3A30714&xg_source=msg

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First ‘We Matter declarations’ are produced

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Rick

The Wales Alliance for Citizen Directed Support has been working with WCVA and a number of national Alliances on a campaign called I Matter We Matter.

This campaign is intended to put the views of citizens at the heart of the Welsh Governments framework for Outcomes.
People from across Wales were asked the same two questions:

  • What things are important to you in your life?
  • What helps you to do these things?

We got 2753 answers to these questions. On the 27th February 53 volunteers from across Wales came together to look at these answers and to create a set of We Matter declarations which represents the things that we all think are important for us to live a successful life.

You can see a video about the work that they did that day here

You can read the draft We Matter declarations here

The people who attended the Combine workshop want to present the We Matter declarations to representatives of the Welsh Assembly. They also want to be clear how the Assembly intend to use Outcomes to give people much more control over the supports that they use.

You can get details about I Matter We Matter here

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Co-Production – Open Letter

Posted on March 21, 2013 by dchegwen13
Dear All

As you may know, we are collecting signatures for an Open Letter to the First Minister asking that co-production principles are placed at the heart of public services in Wales. The deadline is 28 March.Health Minister Mark Drakeford is committed to ensuring that our voices are heard at Cabinet level. This is a real opportunity to transform our public services.

Hope you have already signed up? If not, please do – and then pass it on to friends, family and colleagues – to anyone who supports co-pro principles of equality, reciprocity, and strengths-based working.

 
The Open Letter is below in English and in Welsh. Let’s make a difference… add your signature via 
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OpenLetter
 or go to the link on the AitT website 
http://allinthistogetherwales.wordpress.com/
Dear First Minister
We are writing to you as citizens, service recipients, carers, volunteers and public-service professionals.
We share the Welsh Government’s belief that the growing crisis in public services will only be solved if all citizens truly have a voice – contributing as equal partners to decisions about service commissioning, design, delivery and evaluation. We are delighted that this belief is a central tenet of the draft Social Services and Well-being Bill.
However, we are acutely aware that it is difficult to turn aspirations into reality, to transform the way we do things.
We believe that co-production offers a practical, evidence-based response to this challenge. Co-production is a simple idea: it’s about individuals, communities and organisations pooling their experience, skills and knowledge to identify and solve problems. It draws on our best traditions of mutuality and co-operation.
Co-production is transformative. Its use results in genuine empowerment of all partners, in relationships of trust and reciprocity, and in more focused, effective and sustainable services. The ultimate outcomes are stronger communities and increased well-being for individuals.
A co-produced approach to commissioning, design, delivery and evaluation of services would help ensure that the Welsh Government’s vision for the future of public services becomes a reality. We ask that, as our Government, you use the opportunity provided through primary legislation to ensure that the principles of co-production are at the heart of public services in Wales, enshrined on the face of key legislation, such as the Social Services and Well-being Bill and the up-coming Sustainable Development and Housing Bills.
Yours sincerely…
Do join in… add your signature via this link.
Annwyl Brif Weinidog
Rydym yn ysgrifennu atoch fel dinasyddion, gofalwyr, gwirfoddolwyr a gweithwyr proffesiynol ym maes y gwasanaethau cyhoeddus.
Rhannwn gred Llywodraeth Cymru na fydd modd mynd i’r afael â’r argyfwng cynyddol yn y gwasanaethau cyhoeddus heb sicrhau bod pawb yn cael cyfle i gyfrannu, a hynny mewn modd cwbl gyfartal, i benderfyniadau ynglŷn â chomisynu, cynllunio, darparu a gwerthuso’r gwasanaethau hynny. Ymfalchïwn yn y ffaith bod y gred hon yn egwyddor ganolog yn y Bil Gwasanaethau a Llesiant drafft.
Ar yr un pryd, rydym yn ymwybodol mai tasg anodd yw gwireddu dyheadau o’r fath, gan weddnewid y ffordd yr ydym yn gwneud ein gwaith.
Credwn fod cydgynhyrchu yn cynnig ymateb i’r argyfwng hwn sydd yn ymarferol ac wedi’i seilio ar dystiolaeth gadarn. Syniad syml yw cydgynhyrchu. Mae’n rhoi cyfle i unigolion, cymunedau a sefydliadau rannu profiad, sgiliau a gwybodaeth wrth adnabod a datrys problemau. Mae’n tynnu ar ein traddodiadau cydweithredol gorau.
Mae cydgynhyrchu yn gweddnewid bywydau. Trwy ddod at ei gilydd mewn ysbryd cytûn a chefnogol, mae pob partner yn elwa ac yn cyfrannu at wasanaethau mwy effeithiol a chynaliadwy. Yn y pen draw, mae hyn yn cryfhau ein cymunedau ac yn cynnig bywyd mwy cyflawn i’r unigolyn.
Byddai ymgymryd â chomisynu, cynllunio, darparu a gwerthuso mewn modd cydgynhyrchiol yn sicrhau bod modd gwireddu gweledigaeth Llywodraeth Cymru  ar gyfer ein gwasanaethau cyhoeddus. Erfynwn arnoch chi, felly, i ddefnyddio deddfwriaeth sylfaenol er mwyn sicrhau bod egwyddorion cydgynhyrchu wrth galon gwasanaethau cyhoeddus yng Nghymru ac yn cael eu hymgorffori ar wyneb mesurau deddfwriaethol allweddol megis y Bil Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus a Llesiant a’r Biliau Datblygu Cynaliadwy a Thai.
Yn gywir…
Ymunwch yn yr ymgyrch … ychwanegwch eich llofnod trwy’r ddolen hon.
Best wishes
Ruth (& Noreen)
Ruth Dineen
Founder, All in this Together
Director, Co-production Training UK

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