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From Lived Experience to Meaningful Change: The Power of Partnership

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What happens when an arts organisation and a safeguarding board join forces? Our Relationship Manager Tess meets James and Catherine from Oldham’s safeguarding partnerships to explore how creative work can carry lived experience into the heart of the safeguarding system, and how a good partnership can turn powerful stories into real change. Picture a room

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Care, continuity and access: what clinicians told us about reasonable adjustments

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When professionals talk about health inequalities, the conversation can easily become dominated by statistics, policy and targets. But what happens when you begin with the everyday experiences behind those numbers? That’s what we explored at the Doctors in Deprivation Training Day hosted by Shared Health Foundation, where we shared our ‘Jasper Pickles Climbs Everest’ lived

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Are We Being Unreasonable? Amplifying Learning Disability Voices in Health and Care

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Everyone should be able to be listened to and understood, to receive information in a way that makes sense to them, and to be treated with respect. They should have a say in decisions about their own lives and have the opportunity to be meaningfully involved in research and service improvement that could affect them.

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The Role of Music in Lived Experience Training: Learning Beyond Words

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he Role of Music in Lived Experience Training: At our recent conference, ‘Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women’, the learning didn’t rely on slides or written materials. Instead, we brought our participatory arts approach to life with immersive audio stories, film, music, theatre and hands-on workshops. Among all of these, music emerged as

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The Power of Character Creation: Why It Works & Insights from Our Conference Day

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When delegates arrived at our recent event, ‘Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women’, we asked them to begin with something a little unexpected for a safeguarding conference: co-create a fictional practitioner. Her name was Jessica, chosen collectively by the room, and over the course of the day she became the emotional thread that

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Armchair Adventures: A Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot Adventure! (Part 2)

Armchair Adventures: A Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot Adventure – Part 2

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Hello adventurers! 🌍🚀 Welcome back to the Armchair Adventures Travel Agency. This time, we’re heading back to 1605 for some Bonfire Night fun! Last time, Uncle Chris and the Community Theatre Company found themselves in the middle of a daring adventure, sneaking through the streets of London, dodging King James I’s guards, and discovering the

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