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Blog Post
What about Black Trans People?
What about Black Trans People? I squint at my phone screen and my friend zooms in on the call, I watch from my bedroom as a disappointing Black Lives Matter demonstration talks about “Black on Black crime”, and does not once mention my...
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Blog Post
Patterns of severe and multiple disadvantage in women
Many people will face a major adversity at some point in their life. A period of overwhelming depression or anxiety. Time in a violent or abusive relationship. Perhaps a spell with no home, or dependent on drugs or alcohol. Some people will...
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Publication
Telling a Different Story: Understanding news media coverage of severe and multiple disadvantage
Telling a Different Story: Understanding news media coverage of severe and multiple disadvantage is a research inquiry conducted between January 2018 to March 2019. It explores how print and online news media report on severe and multiple...
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Publication
People Not Problems: Politicians respond to five experiences of severe and multiple disadvantage
This report is about the tens of thousands of people who face multiple complex problems such as homelessness, drug and alcohol misuse, experience of the criminal justice system, serious mental health problems, and cycles of violence, abuse or...
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Blog Post
New Hard Edges report is shining a light on SMD
In 2019, people in Scotland are seeking, and in some cases being advised, to commit crimes in order to get the support they need. Let that sink in for a minute. Of all the findings of Hard Edges Scotland, most of which do not make easy...
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News Story
Bereavement and multiple disadvantage
Revolving Doors Agency’s Research Network has published a new literature review on Bereavement and Loss. It outlines how people facing severe and multiple disadvantage (particularly people in prison) are disproportionately affected by...
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Blog Post
Knowledge Action Inquiry: Paradigm shift
Earlier this week we flagged that one of the elements of our Knowledge Action Inquiry is ‘examining the basis of our collective knowledge system’. By this, we mean that we want to explore the underlying values, assumptions and judgments we...
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Blog Post
MAC-UK and Centre for Mental Health’s latest research
Why is it that the most disadvantaged young people in our society are least able to access support when they need it and on their terms? This is the question MAC-UK have been seeking to answer over the last decade, working with young people to...
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Publication
Systems Changers 2016 ‘From where I stand:’ How frontline workers can contribute to and create systems change
The ambition of Systems Changers is to enable frontline workers to contribute to and create systems change. To empower people to gain a sense of agency to influence the multiple systems they work within. This report is structured around three...
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Blog Post
Systems Changers – harnessing the power of insights from the frontline
Very rarely do we give enough or any attention to the knowledge and insights of the front line worker. Systems changers is a programme that aims to change that. We know how important it is to hear the voice of users. Alongside that...