York's Model of Joint Partnership working (co-production)
Definition of Joint Partnership
‘Joint partnership’ is the term adopted by York for Co-production:
In practice, joint partnership (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. When joint partnership (co-production) works best, people who use services and carers are valued by organisations as equal partners, can share power and have influence over decisions made.
Some of the most-used terms associated with ‘Joint partnership’ are:
- listen
- holistic
- working together
- views
Other associated terms include:
- new ideas
- engagement
- productive
- genuine partnership
- influence service design
- utilising expertise
- sharing knowledge
- not just feedback
- representative
- honesty
- producing
- agreement
- celebrating achievements
- listening and respecting
- improving outcomes
- involved from the start
- communication
- relationships
- sharing power
- input
- doing with not to others
- effective communication
- working with all people
- imagination
- active voice
- embedded
- alongside
- meaningful
- vision
- engaging
- can-do
- empowerment
- partnership
- child centred
- collaboratively
- awareness
- together start to finish
- equal partnerships
- joint working
- objectives
- respect
- clear expectations
- influence service design
As a result of the co-production workshops held in July 2020, one area that continued to arise was the use of the word co-production. It was described as not well-understood and not family friendly and there was a concern that parents may not engage with services to work together in partnership.
Ruth Thompson, York Inspirational Kids, 2020:
We at York Inspirational Kids have been delighted to work with the York partnership to develop the model of joint partnership and guide for use across the system.
In York it was agreed by parents that the term co-production was not ideal and was not family friendly, so we were happy to work with York Council and Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, (formerly Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group) to support the re-naming of the word co-production. Myself and 33 other parents have been involved in a survey to change the term to “joint partnership”.