A partnership between the New Economics Foundation and NESTA has produced reports on ‘co-production’:

• The challenge of co-production
• Public Services Inside-Out. This details some of the challenges faced by co-production practitioners. These include difficulties in securing support from existing funding and commissioning, traditional approaches to audit and accountability in public services, and developing the professional skills required to bring these approaches to the mainstream.
• Right Here, right now: Taking co-production into the mainstream. Argues that if we can successfully bring co-production into the mainstream it will mean not more for less but more for more – because this approach unlocks and values the “assets” that consumers of public services bring to the table.