Hestia is excited and proud to present this engaging and collaborative one day seminar, focussing on co-production as a practical and innovative force within care and support services now. We welcome you to come and listen to experts in the field; hear from our keynote speakers; and take part in our exciting workshops.

This timely seminar will allow delegates to look at practical changes that Hestia Housing and Support and other providers have made, to put clients in control of shaping and assessing our services through co-production, as well as contribute to the growing discussion in this field.

We are all aware that care and support services are in a state of change. The dialogue about Civil Society has transformed and we need to find new solutions to the issues facing us today:

• Self Directed Support is placing people in control of their own care, but many people are finding the reality of the transition more complex than the ideal.
• ‘Payment by Results’ is challenging providers and commissioners to think about how to assess services meaningfully.
• Many services are relying on less funding at a time when need is great.

In this time of change it helps to look at the factors that lead to good service design and provision. Co-production embodies the values many providers aim towards. It also can ensure that services stay relevant to people’s needs, as options about how people buy into services change.

Come to hear what the leading figures and pioneers in co-production from across a wide range of social care sectors, have to say about this approach to service design, delivery and assessment.

Delegates will be able to:

• Learn about co-production, its benefits and potential pitfalls
• Listen to first hand experience of clients leading in the process of changing service provision through co-production
• Discuss the challenges and opportunities that co-production offers to providers and brokers in a personalised market
• Hear stories from the cutting edgeof co-produced services from different sectors
• Learn how to incorporate co-production into your service planning and assessment
• Take part in our co-production workshops and ask questions of our client and professional panel

Agenda:

10:00am          Welcome and Introduction  
- Patrick Ryan, Hestia CEO
 

10:10am          Keynote Speech

- Tessa Jowell, MP

10:30am          ‘Why Bother With Co-Production?’ A Values Based Approach

- Elvis Langley, Hestia, Head of SUI

10:50am          Personalisation and Person Centred Support - Ensuring Self Directed Support is Self Directed

- Peter Beresford, Director, Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University; Chair, Shaping Our Lives

11:10am          Break

11:25am          Doing it Together: Views from the ‘Front Line’ of Co-Production
- Clients from Hestia’s Better Lives Forum, the Back on Track Initiative, Newham ASK and Kingston RISE

11:45am          Workshop slot 1

12:35am          Lunch

1:20pm            Workshop slot 2

2:10pm            Guest Appearance: ‘At some point in our lives 1 in 4 of us will be affected by mental illness.  Bring 3 friends…’
- Ruby Wax, Comedienne and Mental Health Campaigner

2:35pm            Panel Discussion and Q&A session
- Peter Beresford

                        (Director, Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University; Chair, Shaping Our Lives)

- Mike Seal

(Service User and Author “Not About Us Without Us: Client Involvement in Supported Housing” and Head of Dept. in Youth & Community Work - Newman University College)

- Stephanie Royston-Mitchell

(Strategy Manager, Kingston Strategic Partnership for Alcohol and Drugs)

- Mimi Nunez Trejos

(Service User Campaigner and Consultant)

- Anthea Sully

(Director, Learning Disability Coalition)

- Martin Webber

(Programme Leader, MSc in Mental Health Social Work with Children and Adults, Institute of Psychiatry)

3:45pm            Closing Remarks and Summary

Workshops:

Delegates will be able to choose two workshops from the following:

Co-production and Commissioning: Models of Best Practice

Presented by: Newham ASK and RB Kingston Commissioner Stephanie Royston Mitchell (other presenters TBC)

We will learn about practical examples of services that have been co-produced from the design stage onwards. Using these pioneering examples and your personal experience, we will discuss ways in which health and social care commissioning can meaningfully engage users of services. Through this process we will define models of best practice. 

User-Led Assessment: What is a ‘Good' Service?

Presented by nef (New Economics Foundation) and Hestia

We will discuss two different co-produced methods for obtaining user-led service assessment from current practice in the voluntary sector. User led assessment has wide applications in the third sector, as new models of provision and payment are implemented.

Putting Co-production into Action

Presented by RISE (Recovery Initiative Social Enterprise) and Hestia’s ‘Back on Track’ Peer-Led Initiative and Hestia Clients

What works and what causes problems when trying to put co-production into action? We will use practical examples and the direct experience of people involved in co-produced services to discuss how to apply the principles of co-production into service design and delivery.

Who will attend?

This seminar aims to help people involved in the design, delivery and assessment of services to learn about co-production, no matter what their previous experience is.

We have engaged a number of partners to ensure the seminar and workshops are relevant to Commissioners of services, policy makers, managers, staff and other interested people who provide services in social care and support fields.

Please contact us if you have any questions about the suitability of the seminar to you, or your team.

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