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Project Summary
Centre for Criminal Appeals
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The Centre for Criminal Appeals is a legal action charity that fights miscarriages of justice and demands reform. Through investigation, litigation and advocacy, the Centre stands up for individual victims of wrongful conviction and unfair...
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Blog Post
‘I’m no criminal’ – prostitution and criminal records
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Last week nia, a women’s support organisation, published I’m no criminal, which makes a powerful case that the continued existence and disclosure of prostitution-related criminal records is ‘discriminatory, arbitrary, irrational and...
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Blog Post
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The Synergi Collaborative Centre It felt like quite a moment last week to be announcing the establishment of the Synergi Collaborative Centre and our partnership with Queen Mary, University of London, University of Manchester and Words of...
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News Story
How can we create a system that responds to human beings?
Read moreThe answer should be simple, after all it’s in our DNA but in reality systems rather than the people who use and work within them have become the driving force behind them.
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Storytelling
Society’s expectations of you shape you
Read moreThe first in the series examines the role of stigma in the lives of people who are experiencing multiple disadvantage and how the expectations family, friends and community can play a part in shaping a person’s identity.
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Blog Post
Hard Edges
Read more12 stories. All from people who live on the hard edges of society. All from people who have faced hardship so extreme, you listen and can’t help to wonder how they are sitting in front of you today. All with aspirations. All with grievances....
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Project Summary
Transforming Choice
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Provide a residential detox and rehab service for people who cannot be otherwise commissioned for because of their entrenched ill health and social disadvantage attributed to mental ill health and substance addiction.
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Project Summary
Together Women
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A co-production project working with a group of young women facing severe and multiple disadvantage to enable them to design their own solutions to prevent repeated patterns of victimisation, poverty, poor mental health and exclusion.
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News Story
Solutions from the Front Line
Read moreA report launched today by a coalition of charities shows that people with multiple needs – a combination of homelessness, substance misuse, offending, and mental health problems – are not getting the support they need because policymakers...
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Project Summary
Birth Companions
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To provide support for pregnant women and new mothers who are facing severe and multiple disadvantage, enabling them to give their babies the best start in life.