What lessons were learned? It is important to remember that this level of co-production can be time-consuming and expensive. This should not be a reason to avoid it but there are ways in which the impact to your project can be reduced. You can involve disabled people’s organizations in the running of your consultation. You can even ask them to run consultations on your behalf. Doing this can reduce your costs and can be more acceptable to disabled people. Involving people at an early stage improves policy making by ensuring that your approach has ‘buy-in’ from those it affects. It also helps policy makers to engage with the involvement process personally. Policy makers can learn valuable skills from the process, such as writing technical documents in accessible language, and build the capability of their organisations. Feedback from this project demonstrated people felt that all public documents should be written this way.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 05:45:19 +0000
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