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  Creative consultation case studies  
 

1

Young people in Bolton created a radio play, allowing them to be open and honest about their experiences in a style and format that was familiar and of interest to them. Feedback from this experience then fed into a service review of the council's young person's services.

2

Service users in Tameside were involved in a creative day ahead of a homelessness conference, which they also helped to develop and run. At the creative day, drama pieces were developed for the conference and art material was created for a set showing an old transport café that had once been a well-known homeless service in the area.

3

Service user advocates in Bolton, box of frogs, often use still images to help groups express their feelings about particular aspects of a service. Participants create a physical image, which represents something such as ‘good consultation’, ‘barriers to change’, or even something as specific as ‘the local housing options centre’.

The image is shown to the rest of the group and people are asked to discuss what the image might mean. This often gives rise to interesting discussions around the topics, which provide useful feedback.

Some examples can be found here...
 
 
Barriers to accessing support
 
  Barriers to accessing support  
 
Images representing positive & negative of support
 
  Images representing positive & negative of support services - Photo shows positive support  
 
Images representing positive & negative of support
 
  Images representing positive & negative of support services - Photo shows negative image - poor service user involvement/ poor communication
 
 
Effective Communication
 
  Effective Communication  
 
Trust - You are in safe hands
 
  Trust - You are in safe hands  
     
  Taken from the Meaningful Inclusion training course by box of frogs  

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