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Blog Post
What is needed to support place-based system change for people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage?
Read moreLast year Collaborate worked with Lankelly Chase, Coventry City Council and a wide range of partners in the city to explore how the ‘system’ of public services, third sector organisations and the community could be made more coherent and...
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Systems Changers – harnessing the power of insights from the frontline
Read moreVery 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...
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News Story
Griffins Fellowships 2016
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The 2016 Griffins Fellowship Programme: applications now being invited. Would you like to contribute to practice and policy debates about women offenders by undertaking your own pioneering research? The Griffins Society promotes effective...
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Blog Post
Award-winning Open Book
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We’re delighted to announce that one of our partners, Open Book, has won the Guardian’s Student Diversity and Widening Participation Award. Lankelly Chase has been working with the team at Open Book over the last year to expand the model...
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A national service for representing people living with severe and multiple disadvantage
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Expert Link is turning the idea of citizen involvement on its head. We are working with those who are or who have been severely and multiply disadvantaged in society (living with a combination of homelessness, drug or alcohol misuse, domestic...
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Behaving like a system – keeping the conversation going
Read moreFollowing on from Collaborate's report on the preconditions of place-based systems change, Clare Wightman, Director of Grapevine has written her reflections on how values drive system change. Grapevine and Coventry Law Centre have formed...
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News Story
Agenda launches with ‘Hidden Hurt’ report
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'Hidden Hurt', a new report launched today by Agenda - the alliance for women and girls at risk – states that about one in every 20 women in England has experienced extensive physical and sexual violence and abuse across their life course,...
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News Story
Commencing Countdown, Engines On (new partnerships taking off in 2016)
Read moreNew partners join the pioneering Promoting Change Movement in 2016, helping us all understand how effective support can reach those who are most marginalised, experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage.
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Blog Post
Tackling poverty needs whole-system approaches
Read moreWe are working with The Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) to see how economic regeneration and growth can include a focus on people facing severe and multiple disadvantage. Commonly, local economic growth approaches are divorced from...
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Blog Post
Reflections on ‘Understanding the whole person: Part One’
Read moreCathy Stancer, Director of Equalities and Rights, puts forward four reflections (or questions) inspired by the Revolving Doors/Lankelly Chase literature review What are the common concepts for recovery and desistance across the fields of mental...