York's Model of Joint Partnership working (co-production)

Ruth Thompson:

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. We look forward to seeing this implemented across services who work with children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. As most parents, we wish that our children and young people will be happy, healthy and achieve, and to ensure these things happen, it is vital that they are listened to and their views are appreciated and used in work that affects them.

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 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".