Scope's co-production charter
Achieving more together
Co-production means that:
- Disabled people and their families are actively considered as partners from the very beginning through to the end of a project or activity
- Decisions and responsibilities are shared between everyone who has a stake in a project or activity
- Disabled people’s lived experience and expertise is valued
- The relevance, focus and impact of all our activity directly benefits from doing co-production with the people we serve
- We work with disabled people, not do things for them.
Scope’s values are about co-production
Pioneering
Co-production helps us to be innovative and creates new ways of working. It will drive change and have a big impact for our customers.
How? We involve disabled people in the design process from the outset. This ensures that we will create products and services that have meaning and relevance to disabled people.
Courageous
Co-production helps us to be courageous with sharing power. It means having honest conversations and making shared decisions with the people we serve, driven by our desire to achieve everyday equality.
How? As a big, influential charity we have a lot of power. We need to be willing and able to share that with others. Giving up power and asking for help takes courage.
Connected
Co-production helps us to connect with the expertise of disabled people by collaborating as equal partners.
How? By building positive relationships or partnerships with disabled people that are reciprocal. That means we respect and treat disabled people as equals. We work with disabled people, rather than for them. In turn, disabled people help Scope to design and deliver better services.
Open
Co-production helps us to work in a transparent way that encourages openness and honesty.
How? To do co-production well, we need to be open and honest to build trusting relationships with disabled people and disabled people’s organisations.
Fair
Co-production helps us to be fair. We value and respect each other’s expertise and diversity.
How? The way we work together means that disabled people’s expertise and lived experience is rewarded and supported. It’s about fair shares and also about shared responsibilities.
Making co-production a reality
Scope has committed to:
- champion co-production across the whole of Scope with the support and backing of our senior leaders
- train and develop our staff so that everyone understands what co-production is and how to make it happen
- put systems in place that reward and recognise the contributions that disabled people make to Scope’s work
- identify areas of work where co-production can have a genuine impact, and involve disabled people in the very earliest stages of project design
- share and celebrate great examples of how Scope does co-production
- build co-production into our Gamechanger Gameplan until it becomes ‘this is how we work’
We need your pledge!
We are encouraging all Scope staff to sign up to doing co-production across all our work. This means that we will do three things:
- make a commitment to understand what co-production means for our area of work
- seek out opportunities to co-design or co-produce our work with disabled people and families with disabled children
- plan to deliver on those co-production opportunities and tell your co-workers about what you are doing
Join the 'Co-production Charter' channel on Microsoft Teams and write a post about your pledge.