LankellyChase Foundation: “It is critical to listen to and be led by people with real lived experience.”
In her guest blog, Rebecca Fordham, Interim Communications Manager for LankellyChase Foundation tells us why they’ve teamed up with Innovation Unit and User Voice on Hard Edges: Lives Behind the Numbers. People experiencing severe social harms such as homelessness, offending or drug misuse mostly face a much wider and complex set of problems. This shouldn’t be news […]
The Empathy Question
On 7th September Hard Edges: Lives Behind the Numbers will be hosting a storytelling workshop bringing together service providers, frontline workers, commissioners and people with lived experience to share insights about how services can be designed in a way that better supports people facing severe and multiple disadvantage. Prior to this, Lou Thomas shares her thoughts around empathy […]
“It’s a wonderful life being in charge of your own destiny” – July update
Over the course of July, the Hard Edges: Lives Behind the Numbers team have been visiting people in the North East and North West of England to hear stories of people who live with severe and multiple disadvantage. It has been a whirlwind of sadness, hardship and tough identity but also laughter, inspiration and aspiration. Meet… […]
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Maya Angelou
In January 2015, Darren Murinas, Vice Chair of Stoke Expert Citizens and a man who has lived experience of severe and multiple disadvantage welcomed the launch of ‘Hard Edges’, saying: “I recognise the lives described in this report. I’ve lived it myself. I was lucky. I got the help I needed to become a clean, sober […]
‘We need to stop treating pain and isolation with pain and isolation’
Only 16% of people who experience a combination of distressing issues, such as homelessness, mental ill health, drug or alcohol dependence, chronic poverty and offending, consider their quality of life to be good compared to over 70% of the general population. While this is not a surprising statistic, it is a stark reminder of the […]
About Hard Edges
Hard Edges: Mapping Severe and Multiple Disadvantage in England draws together previously separate datasets from homelessness, offending and substance misuse treatment systems. It also takes into account available data around mental health and poverty. It delivers the latest and most comprehensive statistics on people facing severe and multiple disadvantage: where they live, what their lives […]
Hard Edges: the lives behind the numbers 