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About

What do we want to do?

  • Provide regular opportunities for carers in Nottinghamshire to connect, share information, ideas and have focussed discussions on strategic issues that are important to them.

  • Establish links to groups that are important to carers, especially individuals that are not currently represented

  • Share key themes from our conversations with organisations so that they can decide if we can look at them together in a co- production project.

  • Recognising that when they cannot do this, information that affects their decision is fed back to us to improve our understanding.

  • To invite professionals to join us, to listen and have conversations with us, when this is relevant to the group.

  • To encourage everyone to share knowledge, so we all understand how different organisations work.

  • To support carers to understand co-production and how they can influence change by working alongside professionals as equal partners, so we all consider better ways of delivering services.

  • To share information and support carers to get involved with different projects taking place in Nottinghamshire.
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  • To share information with individuals, carers groups and organisations who want to know about what we are doing.

How will we start to achieve this?

  • Regular online meetings from January 2022, which any carer is welcome to attend.
 
  • Every meeting will have a theme with time for a discussion and an open space at the end.
 
  • Discussions and actions taken as a result of meetings will be shared with the group members and distribution lists.
 
  • Work completed on projects outside of the group, with the participation/ input of group members will be fed back to the group at appropriate intervals.
 
  • Carers Space Notts will invite key people from health, social care and other agencies when they need support to understand or discuss a particular topic.
 
  • Staff will be asked to send anything they want to share at the meeting in advance so that carers have time to look at this before the meeting.
 
  • Carers Space Notts representatives will attend one local Carers’ group per month to discuss Carers Space and hear their views on various issues
 
  • Share information with network members about co-production opportunities
 
  • Share information with professionals and service directors about issues that carers feel need changing/developing in co-production

Our key principles for working together​

  • We will all value and work with peoples’ skills, knowledge, and interests to improve services for carers.

  • We will establish, via a two-way conversation with those who provide services, a mutually beneficial growing understanding.
 
  • Through increased co-production carers will help shape future services.
 
  • We will take positive action to let people know what we are doing and encourage the sharing of knowledge.
 
  • We will make sure that any person or group of people that wants to be involved is included.
 
  • We will aim to represent the interest of carers and those they care for by focusing on issues based on multiple cases and trends.
 
  • We will strive to use plain language and other methods of communication that work for people, explaining jargon, and providing translations where possible.
 
  • We will be honest and open in a transparent manner to promote mutual trust
 
  • We will review and reflect on how we do things and change them if we need to.

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What is Co-production?

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The 'Our Voice' co-production group has chosen the following definition to explain what is meant by the word co-production​:
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"Co-production is not just a word, it is not just a concept, it is a meeting of minds coming together to find shared solutions. In practice, co-production involves people who use services being consulted, included, and working together from the start to the end of any project that affects them.

More information on co-production can be found here.

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  • Home
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    • Carer Services in Nottinghamshire
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    • Jointly App
    • Learning Disability Contacts
    • Newark Male Carers Group
  • Join e-mailing list
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