Co-production is essential in meeting citizen expectations, responding to demographic developments and making better use of personal and social assets at a time of pressure on public budgets. East Dunbartonshire partners are working with people with dementia, their carers and the local community, as well as service providers and commissioners to explore innovative co-production approaches for improved wellbeing. The project seeks to facilitate radical culture change across traditional boundaries. Contributed by: Joint Improvement Team & Paula Brown – East Dunbartonshire Council

1. Setting the Scene
Gerry Power
JOINT IMPROVEMENT TEAM

2. Christie Commission on the Future Delivery
of Public Services 2011
• “… Public Services are build around People and
communities, their needs, aspirations, capacities
and skills …”
• “… when empowered to direct their own
support, families effectively combine state
resources around their own natural supports to
create truly personal support …”

3. CO-PRODUCTION
• Enabling People to influence their own health
and wellbeing by contributing to the design,
delivery and improvement of services … by
harnessing the mutual strengths, capacities
and potential of people, communities,
organisations and sectors working in
partnership to make better use of each others
assets in order to achieve positive change.

4. Joint Improvement Team
A strategic improvement partnership between
Scottish Government, CoSLA, NHS
Scotland, the Third Sector, Independent
Sector and Housing Sector.
Supports local partnerships drive radical
improvements in how services are redesigned
and delivered for the people of Scotland.

6. PRESENT
CO-PRODUCTION WITH PEOPLE
AFFECTED BY DEMENTIA IN EAST
DUNBARTONSHIRE

7. PRESENT
• An initiative of East Dunbartonshire
Council, Governance International and the
Joint Improvement Team
• To Improve the quality of life of people
affected by dementia
• Is co production possible with people who
have dementia?
• Pilot project funded by Change Fund to
explore this

8. Project AIMS
• To bring about culture change
• Recognise and build on assets, strengths and
abilities of people affected by dementia
(which includes carers, families and friends of
people with dementia)
• To shift financial and human resources in
public services towards more enabling ways of
working with people affected by dementia

9. Project Aims
• Deliver co produced initiatives
• Build a template for others to learn from our
experience for co production at a
personal, community and organisational level
• International Dementia Co-production
Exchange

10. PRESENT
• Dementia can have a life-changing effect on
people who are affected by it, as well as those
who care for them
• Much can be done that makes a real
difference
• People with dementia are the experts in their
own lives

11. o
Background
• Demographics
• Dementia Network
• Funding PhD research on
resilience and dementia
• Social Work Champion
• Strong Network of Dementia
Ambassadors
• Co production as the context
to deliver the pillars of support

12. What We Did
• National Advisory Group
Alzheimer’s Scotland
IRISS,
The Social Value Lab
Talking Mats
• An International Champions Network with public
service professionals, academics and ‘experts by
experience’ feeds good practice case studies, their
own experiences and their views into the project

13. Co Production Star
• Process to deliver local
workshops
• Connecting with people
• Building on existing assets

14. PRESENT

15. PRESENT
• Connecting with people
• Who we invited
• Building on existing assets
• Identified opportunities

16. Issues
• Need to redesign services to support the
increasing number of people affected by
dementia
• Engaging and involving people with dementia
and their families and carers as equal partners
throughout their journey
• Nurturing dementia enabled and dementia
friendly communities

17. Solutions
• Need to keep talking
• Co production cafes
• Continue to form innovative partnerships

18. Distinctive principles of coproduction
• Service users and staff are active
contributors bringing together their skills
and expertise
• Collaboration – ‘doing with’, not ‘doing to’
• Achieving outcomes, not just delivering
services

19. BE PRESENT
• How Can You Benefit from PRESENT?
• A toolkit for delivering co-production at a
personal, community and organisational level
Contact us
• Email: julie.christie@eastdunbarton.gov.uk
paula.brown@eastdunbarton.gov.uk
gerry.power@scotland.gsi.gov.uk