Our Voice Strategic Co-production group

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Our Voice Strategic Co-production group

Our Voice is a strategic co-production group who meet regularly with senior leaders to strengthen co-production in adult social care.  The group started in 2021 because they felt it was important that members of the public who relied on adult social care helped to make it better.

The group created and help oversee the Our Voice Co-production Strategy [PDF].  This included creating a set of values for adult social care that helps to ensure the voices of people and carers with lived experience are heard equally alongside staff.

Infographic showing the HEARD values: Honesty and Trust, Equality, Accessibility, Respect, and Diversity. Each value appears in a different colour with a related icon and a short description explaining open communication, shared decision-making, inclusive communication, valuing contributions, and bringing together people with different experiences, skills, and perspectives

Our Voice members are regularly involved in a wide range of tasks such as interviewing, training staff, looking at processes and making sure that information is accessible. The group is co-chaired by a member of the public and a senior leader from adult social care.

To find out more about some of the members and what matters to them, read their biographies: Our Voice co-production biographies [Word].

 If you have a question about co-production and want to get in touch with the group, please get in touch by visiting: Get involved | Nottinghamshire County Council 

How the co-production group and team work

Our Voice meet every two to four weeks either in person or online. The group is co-chaired by Our Voice member, Ed Lowe, and the co-production team. Expenses and involvement payments can be claimed.

If you are interested in joining Our Voice, visit the get involved page.