“Co-produced with” is a red flag for me, whether used in a statement like “This leaflet was co-produced with” or “Organisation X co-produced this with”.
It’s not usually helpful to argue over meanings of words, especially weasel-words like co-production, but here’s my take.
Co-production happens BY people working together - whether those people are employed by an organisation or volunteers, members or fee-paid experts by experience. Only naming ‘outsiders’ you coproduction WITH perpetuates the power imbalance that is inherent in engagement, the power of one party choose when to invite ‘others’ to help them.
And for me that is not co-production.
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