At Skills for Care, co-production is a practical approach to improving how social care is designed, delivered and experienced. We believe that social care...
Category - Co-Production
Gareth Roberts, Director of Quality at Lifeways, a provider of support for people with complex needs in the community, explores why real co-production is often...
Care workers are central to delivering care, yet too often excluded from shaping it. Karolina Gerlich, Chief Executive at The Care Workers’ Charity, explores...
Admiral Nurse, Chris Knifton has been working with Dementia UK as a specialist dementia Admiral Nurse for over a decade. Through his personal experience of...
Sarah Offley, Chief Officer at Dudley Voices for Choice, a self-advocacy charity led by people with learning disabilities, with contributions from the DVC...
Language can include or exclude—and across health and social care, it often determines whether people feel heard at all. Jackie O’Sullivan, Executive...
Co-production is often discussed but rarely embedded. Here, Emma Main, Executive Director for Quality and Operations at social care provider Certitude...
Dr Mark Brookes , a Quality Auditor at Dimensions and leading advocate for people with learning disabilities, draws on his lived experience to reflect on what...
Are we really listening to the people who rely on and deliver care? Putting service users at the centre is widely accepted—but is it truly happening in...
Patients and residents in care homes, hospitals and hospices will no longer be cut off from their loved ones unless in exceptional circumstances, under a...


