
Current updates (SEND co-production)
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August 2025 updates
Midland Mencap
We visited Midland Mencap yesterday at Ronkswood Hub. The young people were having a fab time and we enjoyed joining in with them. We collected conkers, took lots of photos and rolled balls down the slide. It was great fun! We are looking forward to visiting again soon.

Voices United
We held our 2nd Voices United Forum meeting on Friday 15 August where we had 7 children and young people attend! They had the option of attending online or in person.
Voices United discussed:
- co-designing a logo for the forum
- co-producing a newsletter format and the content
- accommodations for future meetings in the forum and with practitioners within services
- what children and young people want in Worcestershire
- what a perfect activity would look like and who would they would be doing the activity with
We had some new members join us for this session!
If you would like to be part of the Voices United Forum or contribute to projects to inform decisions within services, see: Working with the Co-production Officers (Children and Young People up to 25yrs)

Worcester Festival
Thank you Worcester Festival for letting us come along to your event on Saturday. We had a fab time engaging with the families who were passing by. We had some wonderful conversations about what is important to children and what they would need to be a happy, healthy and successful adult. There were lots of discussions and a recurring theme of wanting to have fun with family and friends!

Malvern Special Families
We had a great time visiting Malvern Special Families (MSF) on Tuesday 12 August. The children engaged in activities we had brought along and told us what they enjoy doing at MSF. We look forward to visiting again to gain some more feedback from them!

Hive event
We held our first co-production event at the Hive in Worcester. Thank you to the services that supported our event:
- SENDIASS
- Worcester Deaf Society
- ARCOS
- Family Hubs
- Careers Worcestershire
- Disability Football
- Onside
- Worcestershire Parent Carer Forum
- Your Space
- Hansel and Gretel
- Our Space
- Sky Autism
- Worcestershire Parent Carers
- SENDIASS
Thank you to all the families that came along and to the children and young people for getting involved in the activities provided! We had some great conversations with children about what is important to them in Worcestershire. We also had some young people from the SEND forum group and Worcestershire Youth Cabinet help us during the day, we couldn't have done it without you!


Malvern Cube
We visited Malvern Cube to get to visit some young people and ask them about what is important to them. Thank you for inviting us to one of your sessions and we look forward to coming back again!

Come and meet us on 7 August
We will be hosting a drop in event 11:00am to 4:00pm at the Hive, Worcester. We will have a range of information stalls and fun activities to join in with! We look forward to seeing you there.
Co-Production Hive Event Plasma Screen (PDF)
