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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...
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Blog Post
Promoting Change Network: A Participant’s View
Read moreIn light of our recent residential event, the Promoting Change Network, Sam Thomas who works for one of our partner organisations - Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM) - has written his reflections on how it went: One of the big challenges for...
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Blog Post
The Mission of Change
Read moreIn mid-November, Lankelly Chase convened a conference for representatives of the organisations that we work with; for commissioners from local authorities, the NHS and other services; and for people with lived experience of the social harms that...
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Blog Post
Behaving like a system?
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We have been working in partnership with Collaborate and Coventry City Council, to look at preconditions for systems change in 'place' - i.e. a defined geographical area. Exploring, what are the behaviours that will make systematic change...
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Blog Post
Knowledge Hub: Bid Development Day
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What does ‘information’ really mean; what is the value of data and what structures are we willing to work within? These questions and others were raised at the Bid Development Day held at Lift Islington. On 19th November people from...
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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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News Story
IPPR calls for ‘Troubled Lives’ programme to tackle social problems
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Breaking Boundaries for people facing multiple and complex needs IPPR releases Breaking boundaries: Towards a ‘Troubled Lives’ programme for people facing multiple and complex needs. The report develops policy proposals for the Troubled...
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Blog Post
The complexity of severe and multiple disadvantage
Read moreComplexity theory is the study of systems containing potentially large numbers of unique parts, which interact with and adapt to each other over time. In this new paper, Greg Fisher of Synthesis explores what complexity theory can offer to...