Exploring solutions to multiple disadvantage: A report from the National Expert Citizens Group (NECG)
In 2022, the National Expert Citizens Group (NECG) sets out its approach and strategic priorities for the period 2023-2025. These aimed to capture the most important issues for people experiencing multiple disadvantage – where someone experiences a combination of several unmet health and social needs – in England and Wales today.
Over the last three years the NECG has explored these priorities, conducting extensive meetings to discuss the intersection between these issues and harnessing the power of lived experience to locate examples of good practice.
This report offers a deep dive into each priority, highlighting the findings and providing actionable recommendations. We want to demonstrate how coproducing policy and service design alongside those with real lived experience has the potential to create more effective solutions that support people to lead fulfilling lives.
Services and policies should be shaped by those who will be most impacted by them. This is our blueprint as to how that can be achieved.
*The NECG is co-ordinated and supported by Revolving Doors and consists of people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage who represent the 15 Changing Futures areas. The Changing Futures programme is a £91.8 million joint funded initiative between Government and The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder in the UK, which funds local organisations working in partnership to better support those who experience multiple disadvantage.*
