Impact Report: 2015-16
This report covers our impacts and achievements over the last 12 months, including influencing decision-makers, extensive policy work, and consulting with more than 1000 service users. We also continued to diversify our income streams, with 50% of our income now coming from social enterprise work. We developed and piloted a new model bringing people with lived experience into the heart of local commissioning. We played a role as part of the Offender Health Collaborative when the Government committed to continued national roll out of Liaison and Diversion services across the country. We contributed by designing the operating model and providing lived experience expertise to the national Programme Board.
We established a ground-breaking cross-disciplinary research network on severe and multiple disadvantage. This brings together academics from across different disciplines and sectors. We also worked with Police and Crime Commissioners to advocate for better responses to young adults in contact with the criminal justice system. We hosted a lived experience focus group on behalf of Public Health England as part of their review of drug treatment outcomes. And we were delighted to see the Home Secretary announce £15m of new funding to provide health-based alternatives for the 4,000 people a year who spend time in detention in police cells under the Mental Health Act.
We published multiple reports and blogs, responded to government consultations, and made many presentations and speeches. Some of the lived experience experts we work with also edited national publications, spoken on the radio and at national conferences, and presented findings to civil servants.
