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Blog Post
COVID has highlighted a great need for systems change in the Black community.
In March, NHS England called upon health trusts to assess BAME workers who are “at potentially greater risk” from coronavirus. They found that one in five of the 1.3 million NHS staff are from BAME backgrounds. The Guardian then...
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Publication
Synergi, national priority setting paper
Although there has been much discussion of how to address ethnic inequalities in the risk of severe mental illness and in pathways through care, this has rarely emphasised the views and experiences of ethnic minority people with lived...
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Project Summary
Agenda
A cross-sector alliance working to change the way services respond to women and girls who have experienced extensive abuse and multiple disadvantage.
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Blog Post
‘I’m no criminal’ – prostitution and criminal records
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
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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Blog Post
Severe and Multiple Disadvantage for Women and Girls – what difference does gender make?
The term ‘disadvantage’ is widely used and we all know what it means. Or do we? What sorts of things get defined as disadvantages in the first place? And given that disadvantages rarely feature singly in peoples’ lives, what are the...
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Publication
Women and Girls Facing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage
Our new report ‘Women and Girls Facing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage’, is an exploration of different frameworks for describing and measuring severe and multiple disadvantage in the lives of women and girls. The research was...
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News Story
Women in the criminal justice system: new Griffins Society reports
The Griffins Society sponsors research to bring about change in how women and girls are dealt with in the criminal justice system. Griffins Society fellowships – supported by Lankelly Chase – give frontline workers the opportunity to design...
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News Story
Commencing Countdown, Engines On (new partnerships taking off in 2016)
New 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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News Story
How can we create a system that responds to human beings?
The 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.