Disability Rights UK produces co-production guide

Disability Rights UK (DR UK) and their Get Yourself Active campaign have produced The Co-production Narrative. This guide is aimed at those working in physical activity or sport, co-produced by Disability Rights UK alongside a team of individuals, organisations including Activity Alliance and researchers.

Co-production and working in partnership with communities is becoming increasingly expected and is a popular approach in many areas of work. Working in this way can mean you are able to develop more inclusive activities from the beginning without wasting valuable money or resources. You can also develop better relationships with your local community and therefore improve your reputation, as well as ensuring any work you develop is accessible, relevant and will make a difference.

However, a lack of understanding and misuse of the word co-production runs the risk of the approach becoming tokenistic.

DR UK has therefore created this practical guide to support the sport and physical activity sector, as well as wider organisations including Activity Alliance, to provide direction and clarity around what co-production is and what it isn’t.

The resource includes case studies from a variety of organisations working in the sector so that you can see how others have embedded co-production in practice. The guide, alongside the information and hints/tips, can be used as a starting point to guide conversations and help support how you might decide to do co-production in ways that fit your work and the people you work with.

Find the ‘Co-production Narrative’ on the Disability Rights UK website.