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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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The Lives Behind the Numbers
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Twelve stories. All from people who live on the hard edges of society. All from people who have faced hardship so extreme, you listen and can’t help to wonder how they are sitting in front of you today. All with aspirations. All with...