How gas meters and systems designed to help often forget we’re humans and focus on hard outcomes…the numbers. My British Gas pay as you go meter hung around my neck...
“It’s time to transform what ‘expertise’ the grant-making world values”
From the rise in homelessness and the use of food banks, growing hate crime on our streets, to the recent horrors at Grenfell Tower, inequality in the UK feels starker than ever. We need radical new ideas and interventions to create real change in society. But are people who have real life experience of inequality and social issues being given a chance to lead that change?
Our Response to Universal Credit
Evidence from our community shows that monthly payments and long waiting times has had a direct impact on street begging and shoplifting. Expert Link, as a national voice for...
Wordfromthestreet Prison Suicides
Prisons are used as “dumping grounds” for women suffering poverty and multiple disadvantage and suicide rates in prisons are up 32%. 10 years ago Lady Corston laid out a blue...
Talking art, mental illness and Stigma
Steve, one of Expert Link’s Advisory Panel, took part in a recent fringe festival in Liverpool where he was able to show his art at a local gallery. In the...
Conversations on begging and Universal Credit
Has Universal Credit increased begging and petty crime? Has the Government underestimated the effects on those who struggle with homelessness and substance or alcohol misuse? The people to ask are...
A conversation about begging 1
We went out to ask those who “know” about begging why people beg, what would people do if they couldn’t beg and the effects of Universal Credit on begging. The...
Universal Credit – Beggars Belief
On Monday I spent the morning with some of the people I know with multiple disadvantages, some of the most vulnerable in our society. I was interviewing them about begging,...
Death on the Streets
This weeks #wordfromthestreet picks up on the Victoria Derbyshire shows piece about the number of people who are homeless dying on our street. We say that if it was a...