@ScotCoPro www.coproductionscotland.org.uk

…Our vision for co-production in Scotland is that all people are valued and supported to meaningfully participate in shaping services, building their communities and creating change.

To explore the relationship between participatory budgeting processes, commissioning and co-production

Co-production ‘Co-production is about combining our mutual strengths and capacities so that we can work with one another on an equal basis to achieve positive change’ Catalysts Shared roles Networks Mutuality Capacity Assets Key components of co-production: 1. Assets: transforming the perception of people from passive recipients of services and burdens on the system into one where they are equal partners in designing and delivering services. 2. Capacity: altering the delivery model of public services from a deficit approach to one that recognises and grow people’s capabilities and actively supports them to put them to use at an individual and community level. 3. Mutuality: offering people a range of incentives to engage which enable us to work in reciprocal relationships with professionals and with each other, where there are mutual responsibilities and expectations. 4. Networks: engaging peer and personal networks alongside professionals as the best way of transferring knowledge inside and outside of ‘services’. 5. Shared roles: removing tightly defined boundaries between professionals and recipients, and between producers and consumers of services, by reconfiguring the way services are developed and delivered. 6. Catalysts: enabling public service agencies to become facilitators of action rather than central providers themselves.

     Participatory Budgeting (PB): “PB is one method which can be used alongside other models of community engagement and empowerment as part of a wider strategic approach to advancing participatory democracy…..in which people have influence over what happens to them, their families and their communities.”

Programme 10.20 Burnfoot Bids Together – Jan Pringle and Kenny Harrow 10.50 BREAK 11.10 Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership - Kim Penman 11.40 Group discussions 12.40 PB Scotland Network 13.00 Lunch and close

How can we capitalise on the energy around PB to help embed co-production approaches in budget and decision making processes? How can we ensure that when communities are taking control of local budgets, they are engaging in meaningful and sustainable processes, which build skills, capacity and resources?

PB in Scotland – key highlights 2nd year of Community Choices fund (closing date tomorrow!) PB Network has 348 members (over half from the community/ voluntary sector) SCDC continuing to support learning and development around PB Ensuring equality of access to PB processes and focus on tackling inequalities Exploring use of digital approaches alongside face-to-face methods PB partners providing training on key themes Glasgow Caledonian University - evaluation DemSoc supporting digital approaches

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