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What do we mean by ‘lived experience’?

What is coproduction?

How we can support you:

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What people have said about our lived experience work:

The reports from Davis and Associates were very comprehensive, detailed, covered all aspects and were rooted in what people with lived experience had told them. These were clearly articulated in the recommendations.

Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Commissioner, Torbay Council
Your ability to capture the essence and “voice” of our victim. I have been involved in Domestic Homicide Review’s for over a decade now – including representing UK policing on the Home Office Quality Assurance panel, and this is one of the finest examples I have read.

Review Officer, Specialist Crime Review Group, Metropolitan Police Service
This is the first time we have commissioned a piece of work that hasn’t told us what we already knew. Key to this has been Danielle's ability to engage with people with lived experience in an empathetic, trauma informed way that has emphasized her independence and gained their trust. Their voices are loud in the final reports and recommendations, bringing honesty and truth to our review, in a way that we would never have been able to achieve ourselves.

Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Commissioner, Torbay Council

Our projects centre lived experience. This means our needs assessments, reviews and scrutiny all include working alongside people with experience of the issues we are responding to. However some of our work is specifically focussed on coproduction, examples of which can be seen here:

Commissioned to work alongside people with lived experience, practitioners and leaders to develop a coproduction strategy, including mechanisms, for the 'Multiple Complex Needs Alliance. This new approach to commissioning aligned domestic abuse, substance use and homelessness services to deliver a coproduced integrated service.
Domestic abuse survivor listening exercise. We conducted 25 in depth interviews with people living in Torbay to hear about their experiences, and views on how the system could work better to protect and support people experiencing domestic abuse.
Participatory research working alongside young people who had experienced sexual exploitation to understand the Children Social Care strategy process and how it could be strengthened to respond to young people experiencing extra-familial harm.

Language matters

What do we mean by ‘lived experience’?

What is coproduction?

How we can support you:

Developing your coproduction mechanism

Implementing and delivery of coproduction

Lived experience listening exercise

Lived experience board coordination

The reports from Davis and Associates were very comprehensive, detailed, covered all aspects and were rooted in what people with lived experience had told them. These were clearly articulated in the recommendations.

Your ability to capture the essence and “voice” of our victim. I have been involved in Domestic Homicide Review’s for over a decade now – including representing UK policing on the Home Office Quality Assurance panel, and this is one of the finest examples I have read.

Domestic abuse survivor listening exercise. We conducted 25 in depth interviews with people living in Torbay to hear about their experiences, and views on how the system could work better to protect and support people experiencing domestic abuse.

Participatory research working alongside young people who had experienced sexual exploitation to understand the Children Social Care strategy process and how it could be strengthened to respond to young people experiencing extra-familial harm.