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Severe and Multiple Disadvantage for Women and Girls – what difference does gender make?
Read moreThe 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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Refreshing Perspectives: new Revolving Doors Agency report on peer research
Read moreRevolving Doors Agency has published Refreshing Perspectives: Exploring the application of peer research with populations facing severe and multiple disadvantage. It examines if and how the idea of service user involvement has made inroads into...
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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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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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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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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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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...