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National Co-production Week is an annual celebration of the benefits of co-production; sharing good practice and promoting the contribution of people who use services and carers in developing better public services.

Co-production is about working in equal partnership with people using services, carers, families and citizens. It offers the chance to transform education, health and social care provision “to a model that offers people real choice and control.”

This year, Co-Production Week is being celebrated on 1-5 July. The theme for 2024 is “Co-production: What’s missing?”

You can learn more at https://www.scie.org.uk/co-production/week

Read about Manchester’s celebration of co-production in 2022 at the Local Offer’s “Co-production special” newsletter.

Below are some articles that we published on the website relating to National Co-production Week.

Co-production – What’s that?

Co-production, what’s that? (A question I asked when I first heard the term.) It’s working together to get better outcomes. In Manchester co-production happens on many levels. Sometimes it’s strategic co-production that happens in meetings with service leads and commissioners; other times it can be

By |2026-07-08T16:04:34+01:00July 8th, 2026|Categories: Celebration, Parent Sharing|Tags: , |
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Reflections on Co-production + My Report to the Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee

I recently went to Manchester Town Hall, together with Tanya from the Parent Champions and a few service leads in Education and Social Care, to present the SEND Annual Report to the Children and Young People's Scrutiny Committee. I was given an opportunity to

By |2026-07-08T15:46:57+01:00July 5th, 2026|Categories: Report|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Co-production in Manchester’s Wraparound Childcare Expansion Programme

To celebrate Co-production Week, Euan Loveridge (Manchester City Council's Project Manager for the School-age Childcare programme) sent us this article sharing the outcomes of the Wraparound Childcare expansion programme in Manchester and highlighting the importance of co-production in the development and implementation of the

By |2026-07-05T12:40:33+01:00July 5th, 2026|Categories: Celebration, Information Sharing, Projects|Tags: , , , , , |
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SEND Co-production in Manchester – It’s Just “How We Do Things”

At the close of last week, we were delighted to receive this inspired letter from Maureen Howell, Manchester City Council's SEND Engagement & Young Carers Lead. In it, she writes about how working with MPCF and our wider network of parents and carers, as well

By |2026-06-29T16:54:07+01:00June 29th, 2026|Categories: Celebration, SEND Support Group Network|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |
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Co-production Week 2026

Co-production Week (running between 29 June to 3 July in 2026) is an annual celebration to recognise the benefits of co-production in shaping better, more inclusive services. In the words of NHS England, "the week will highlight the power of Co-production to design and develop

By |2026-07-05T12:46:14+01:00June 29th, 2026|Categories: Celebration, Events, Information Sharing|Tags: , , , , |
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Co-production for Better Inclusion in the Early Years

It is never too late to celebrate amazing co-production work! We recently received an article from Carrie Mooney (Manchester City Council's Lead for Early Years Access & Sufficiency) who, with some input from Ann Van Dyke MBE (consultant working with Dingley's Promise charity on

By |2024-07-19T18:55:50+01:00July 19th, 2024|Categories: Celebration, Projects|Tags: , , , , |
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Autism in Schools and Co-production

We are pleased to share this short article from fellow parent-carer Carla Scaife, who is also the Programme Delivery Lead for Autism in Schools and the Partnership for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS) in Greater Manchester. Here, she talks about the role that

By |2024-09-19T19:35:28+01:00July 9th, 2024|Categories: Celebration, Parent Sharing, Projects|Tags: , , , , , , |
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Co-production in the Private Sector

Dr Michelle Hacking, founder and clinical psychologist at Kingfisher Psychology, recently sent us this writeup with her thoughts about co-production and the value of lived experience. We are pleased to have such a staunch supporter of the forum and we hope that this encourages further

By |2024-07-07T11:23:00+01:00July 7th, 2024|Categories: Celebration|Tags: , , , , , , |
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Co-production with Parents and Carers

In celebration of Co-production Week, we are pleased to share with you a few words from Maureen Howell (Manchester City Council's SEND Engagement & Young Carers Lead) and Maria Simpkin (Manchester City Council's Engagement Manager & Local Offer Coordinator), who wanted to express their

By |2024-07-02T16:27:25+01:00July 1st, 2024|Categories: Celebration, SEND Support Group Network|Tags: , , , , , |
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Manchester City Council SEND and AP Change Programme Partnership

Hi, my name is Kemi Omoboye and I'm a Project Manager at Manchester City Council currently leading on the Department for Education's Special Educational Needs Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Change Programme Partnership for the North West. This means I work with lots of

By |2024-07-01T14:06:36+01:00July 1st, 2024|Categories: Celebration, Parent Sharing|Tags: , , , , |
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Manchester Parent Carer Forum is a group of parents and carers of disabled children who work with Manchester Local Authorities, Education Settings, Health Providers and other providers to make sure the services they plan and deliver meet the needs of disabled children and young people (0-25 years), as well as their families, in Manchester.

We have a steering group of parent and carer volunteers who lead this work and listen to the views of other parents and carers in the local area to make sure they know what is important to them.

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