DISCOVERYPROGRAMME

NESTA PUBILSHES CO-PRODUCTION REPORT,
FEATURES DISCO PROG




"The difference about Headway East London is that, like other co-production projects, they look at their 'patients' according to what they can do, not just what they can't do - and they build on that... Headway East London certainly recognises and works with their members as assets, but they are also building peer support networks alongside the professionals as the best way of transferring knowledge, and building up people's abilities... [they are] pushing this approach further [with] the Discovery Project. They have recruited six people from their community, all of whom have been thorugh traditional methods of rehabilitation, have tried going back to work, only to have the job fall through - sometimes more than once. Each of them is now leading small teams, setting up a series of new enterprises based at Headway... What Headway East London is doing is building on the idea of a network of mutual support, and pioneering a way that their members can do two or three days' work a week, get a salary and still be part of a community where they can provide some support for each other to flourish within society."

- Public Services Inside Out, D. Boyle, J. Slay, L. Stephens, NESTA, 2010