| Name of project | Organisation | Activity | Date project started | Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jargon Busters Learning Disability Co-Production group. | Devon County Council, members of the friendship group, Devon People First, and Carer. | The group is developing accessible guidance for Devon County Council staff on how to work co-productively with people from ethnically diverse communities who have learning disabilities and/or autism. | January 2027 | |
| Integrated Adult Social Care Website Accessibility Project | Devon County Council | A series of focus groups are taking place in November with the Web and Digital Communications Team, to Co-design the immersive reader application for the Devon County Council public web pages to make sure they are accessible, for people who use Adult Social Care service. | July 2026 – still active | Focus groups booked for November. |
| Adult Social Care Developing Stories from Feedback | Devon County Council | The Co-production Advisory Group (COAG) is creating a short film to showcase positive outcomes from co-production and demonstrate what meaningful co-production looks like in practice. The film will be used internally across Adult Social Care. | July 2026 – still active | Work around creating a video will start in the next quarter. |
| Co-producing Training for Newly Qualified Social Workers | Devon County Council | People with lived experience and carers are working with Workforce Development to co-design and deliver training sessions for newly qualified social workers, helping ensure learning is informed by real-life experience. | July 2026 – still active | The first session of the new part of the newly qualified social worker workshop happened October 2026. |
| AI Pilot Project User Groups | Devon County Council | People with lived experience are contributing to discussions about the use of AI within Adult Social Care. The group is helping shape future approaches to AI-assisted assessments and reviews, ensuring developments align with Devon County Council policy while reflecting the needs and views of people who use services. | June 2026 – still active | A Council officer has attended focus groups to gather initial feedback about this project. More meeting are booked for the future to meet with a diverse range of |
L&M Excellence Workshop Relationships | Devon County Council | People with lived experience worked Devon County Council colleagues to deliver two co-production sessions as part of the Leadership and Management Excellence Programme. The sessions explored what co-production means, its benefits and challenges, and shared real examples from participants’ experience. Feedback from attendees was positive. | January 2026 – still active | The Co-production Advisory Group becoming part of the workshop and attending any next workshop dates. |
| Co-Design Interview Process | Devon County Council | Co-designing the participation in interviews for recruitment of key senior roles. | January 2025 – still active | Recruitment input and evaluation of process for lived experience involvement. |
| Community Services Redesign Project – Co-design group | DCC with Disability Together and Partners | Co-productively gathering direct lived experience from diverse populations, collating this feedback and sharing these themes at a self-organised conference. | June 2025 – still active | Workshops from this conference have resulted in focused approaches making holistic improvements to relevant services. Here is a link to webpages from the Celebration of strengths based working event. The group is developing a presentation for the VCSE Assembly in October, sharing its experience of working co-productively and highlighting the value of collaboration between commissioners, providers and people with lived experience. |
| Devon County Council Autism Public Health Needs Assessment | Dimensions for Autism and Devon County Council Public Health | Health Needs Assessment engagement was requested by Devon County Councils Public Health Team to help assess and understand the health and other needs with autistic adults and/or ADHD, focusing on social, mental and emotional wellbeing. | January 2025 | Health Needs Assessment for autistic adults influenced by lived experience. |
| DCC Reasonable Adjustments for Neurodiversity IASC assessment paperwork | Dimensions for Autism with DCC Adult Social Care Operations | Dimensions for Autism co-production of reasonable adjustments for assessments and reviews of autistic adults | May 2025 | Staff guidance published on DCC intranet |
| Leading and Managing Effective Workflow (LMEW) | Devon County Council | Helping improve the experience of people on waiting lists, under the Leading and Managing Effective Workflow (LMEW) project. By co-productively agreeing to record direct service user experience of accessing adult social care with a hope to make staff training far more impactful. | August 2025 | Video being produced 7/10/25 |
| Jargon Busters – recruitment to new Learning Disability Video | Devon County Council, members of the friendship group, Devon People First, and Carer. | The group have been working on a new video to try and recruit members to the Learning Disability Partnership Board (LDPB). This film will cover the purpose of the LDPB, reasonable adjustments and support, members stories, and influence of the board. All aspects of the film are Co-produced by the group. | September 2024 – April 2025 | The Devon Learning Disability Partnership Board Video |
| Adult Social Care Practice Standards Co-production Work | Devon County Council staff, physical disability, ethnically diverse, older people and learning disabilities | People with lived experience continue to work alongside Adult Social Care colleagues to review and improve practice standards, public-facing information and service communications, ensuring they are accessible, meaningful and informed by lived experience. | March 2024 – still active | Successful launch of IASC Practice Standards. |
Jargon Busters – Learning Disability Co-production group | Devon County Council, members of the friendship group, Devon People First, and Carer. | The group decided their first Co-production project would be to plan and record a short film. This would look at sharing stories and experiences of how people with learning disabilities have and do work in a Co-productive way. | September 23 – March 2024 | The Jargon Busters – working co-productively with people with learning disabilities in Devon |
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