TY - JOUR
AU - Needham, Catherine
AB - The concept of co-production – also called co-creation – is gaining widespread attention as a way to increase user involvement in service provision in the UK. It is usually taken as self-evident that more co-production will improve services. However, it is necessary to be clear about how far and in what ways co-production can improve public services. This article looks at the purported advantages of co-production, and considers how these can best be accessed. A case study workshop involving social housing users and providers, conducted as part of the National Consumer Council-Unison Shared Solutions project, is used to illustrate the need for collective dialogue and deliberation between co-producers rather than purely transactional forms of co-production.
TI - Realising the Potential of Co-production: Negotiating Improvements in Public Services
JF - Social Policy and Society
DO - 10.1017/S1474746407004174
DA - 2008-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/cambridge-university-press/realising-the-potential-of-co-production-negotiating-improvements-in-1h0FqIvxHx
SP - 221
EP - 231
VL - 7
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -