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

The themes identified structured the development of 6 core principles that shape our model and are:

1. We value the importance of children, young people and their parent carers as fundamental and key stakeholders in all decisions and planning that affects their lives

• we support children, young people and families to identify their strengths, knowledge, skills, talents, areas of enthusiasm and aspirations
• we work in partnership to involve them in design, delivery and improvements of services areas
• we're honest and transparent when it is not possible to implement changes, explain why and give opportunities for discussion

2. We value feedback and celebrate success

• we feedback on the outcomes as the result of involvement and promote good ways of working together
• we share best practice and celebrate successes

3. We work in a reciprocal way and support one another

• we give and support all stakeholders the opportunities to be involved in partnership working
• we're equal in the way we work and share the responsibility
• we actively listen to those involved and use their feedback effectively
• We lead by example in our working relationships to understand and respect the opinions of children, young people, families and of others to improve the confidence they have in our services

4. We continue to grow our networks of people

• we consistently find new opportunities and ways for children, young people and families to use their experiences to support our service development and delivery
• we're creative in the way we gain involvement from a broad range of children, young people and families who receive services and will actively involve parent carers, children and young people to ensure their voices are heard

5. We're equal, diverse and accessible

• we share the power, acknowledge and respect children, young people and families as critical partners
• we're diverse in the way we engage and who we engage with, and using a range of accessible communication techniques where necessary
• we enable all to work in Joint Partnership with us in our work and promote York as an accessible and inclusive to all

6. We blur the boundaries between receiving and delivering services

• we know the importance of listening and understanding experience
• we care about outcomes of children and young people
• we want children, young people and parent carers to educate us