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In this blog, Richard Tillman, a member of Revolving Doors’ National Service User Forum and contributor to the update of Clinks’ Guide to Service User Involvement along with other Revolving Doors Agency staff and Forum members, talks about the importance of listening to your services users, and involving them in your service design.

Revolving Doors’ latest report, London Together, shows that many individual services are working well. Form my experience good services are those where the staff have lived experience and really go all out to help their clients.

After almost a year at Revolving Doors I wanted to take stock.

Jonathon Graham from Homeless Link blogs on our recent review comparing the processes of recovery from mental illness, recovery from addiction and desistance from crime, and how it compares to the findings emerging from MEAM’s Voices from the Frontline project.

In a series of blogs, expert practitioners from the fields of mental health, criminal justice and substance misuse are commenting on the recent Revolving Doors literature review comparing the processes of recovery from mental illness, recovery from addiction and desistance from crime.

In a series of blogs, expert practitioners from the fields of mental health, criminal justice and substance misuse are commenting on the recent Revolving Doors literature review comparing the processes of recovery from mental illness, recovery from addiction and desistance from crime.

This blog is authored by our National Service User Forum member Pat Kenny discussing his experience of speaking at an NHS conference about health in the justice system.

With just 20 days to go until polling day, this week saw all of the parties launching their manifestos for the General Election. Not to be outdone, today we have launched our own version – a ‘Revolving Doors Agency Manifesto’ setting out five priorities for an incoming government.

Local government has got used to bad news in the budget. For many, the Chancellor’s latest offering will not look much different, with £30 billion in further public spending cuts earmarked for the next parliament.

A participant in the research for A Good Life: Exploring what matters to people with multiple and complex needs blogs here anonymously about her experience in taking part in the ‘creative methods’ research.

More than two years into their role, the first generation of police and crime commissioners remain a controversial addition to public service landscape