Brief Description

We are a team of professionals from the care sector that were fed up with support and development in care being so unfair, being kept so far away from the real lives of people with disabilities and the lack of support for the incredible and diverse workforce that are on the front line every day.
Our team volunteer time to provide a platform and specific campaigns promoting equality, inclusivity and to bring the people most affected by services closer to decision making. 
During the current crisis we are needed more than ever to connect care providers together and to authorities through large online workshops and discussions. We are running an emergency service where over 100 providers of care with thousands of people depending on their services can connect instantly and regularly to information about PPE, infection control and staff support. This means they are more likely to make it through the incredible pressures being put on their ability to survive this crisis.

Vision & Mission

The main mission of Coproduce Care is to benefit people suffering from mental or learning disabilities, loneliness and/or isolation by promoting their social inclusion and assisting them to better integrate into society and access appropriate support.
To do this we have to collaborate with individuals, care providers, community groups, national bodies and authorities to fight for the fair recognition and inclusion in decision making and support.
Because of the pandemic we are starting to see this change towards recognising the vital and incredibly difficult work done in social care. We want to see a world where care is fully recognised and supported as a key part of the systems affecting the inclusivity, health and wellbeing of a community that also gets people out of hospitals and living independently.
We want accessible, appropriate, efficient and beneficial services for people with diverse circumstances and we want the diverse groups that provide care to be properly supported.

Aims & Activities

During the pandemic we are providing constant support to providers and running emergency online forums for over 100 care providers as well as community groups and regulators and authorities. This is so strategy can be collaborative, providers can ask vital questions and authorities can better monitor the effect of the virus. This is keeping providers going, giving them better chances of finding PPE and getting the right advice about handling staff that are on the front line but not receiving the same support as key workers in the NHS and health system.
We hope that the talk during this crisis about better recognition for how care is vital in promoting equal and sustainable health and wellbeing in the community that also supports hospitals and primary health services. 
To help this we need to scale up our platform so it reaches more people, so more resources can be developed and shared and we can help other regions adopt too. We need more technical and admin support for our volunteers.

Facts & Figures

                            We are a team of volunteers in care that have received awards for quality care, technical innovation and work to improve the sector in line with the UN SDGs. We have created Coproduce Care to carry out a range of activities to make support, decision-making and inclusion fairer for the adults with intellectual disabilities or rehabilitation needs that receive care and the marginalised groups that make up the workforce. 
This includes webinars to make technical policy consultations more accessible to people and create joint responses or more representative submissions. We also create resources that help understand diversity in care and publish our own videos where industry leaders explain technical care and law guidance more easy to understand.
Our aim is to make sure that care is developed fairly and the real needs of communities drive our campaigns so that people are more empowered to address inequality in health and finance that is associated with care needs or even working in care.
                            

                            Primarily it is people suffering from mental or learning disabilities, loneliness and/or isolation. We help them by making services fairer and providing accessible ways of learning about health, wellbeing, support and decision-making. Currently we have around 150 providers and community groups who use our platforms caring for at least 3000 people in the area. 
Beyond inclusivity for adults with disabilities or care needs, we also aim fundamentally to fight for fairer recognition of carers. The majority of carers are women, BAME groups or marginalised people who carry out vital work for sustainable health and equality in the community, but the pressure and skills involved are not rewarded. This makes it harder to provide good care and misses an incredible opportunity for better diversity.
If we are able to scale up so other areas and care services can use this in the way that helps their needs most then this could easily benefit people nationally and internationally in the same way.
                            

Awards

No awards received