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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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Blog Post
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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Blog Post
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...
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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...