At Expert Link we passionately champion co-production; working to ensure that people with lived experience of multiple disadvantages are treated as equal par...

At a time where national and local government, public services and the voluntary sector are all accelerating their thinking around the short and long term ch...

Over the last few years, Expert Link has been lucky enough to work with some inspiring individuals and organisations trying to make coproduction happen, all w...

Our experiences of sanctions can be horrific. Research from Homeless Link found people experiencing homelessness were ten times more likely to be sanctioned ...

A recent BBC Radio 4 programme, ‘Feeding the Problem’ suggests that we should NOT give food to those on the streets. It gives the impression that we can star...

David Ford is the Founder and Head of Expert Link, a national organisation with a network of people around the country, predominately with lived experience o...

I am sitting in a room with a diverse range of people, there are a few volunteers from a day centre, a person who works on databases, one who is on a panel, ...

New Year, new resolutions, new asks and wants, along with new aspirations for 2019. But how many of us fail, or have failed already so far in 2019?? Here’s a...

Religion, science and co-production and how does that all fit, work or relate to each other, and more importantly not work. This is a MUST watch video for al...

At LEAST 449 people DIED on our streets last year, 449 human beings that were mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and friends. The Government is spending £45...

Today the Government releases it’s new rough sleepers strategy to end rough sleeping by 2027 with a commitment to halving the numbers by 2022. Although we we...

To Heather Wheeler MP Chair Rough Sleepers Advisory Panel Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Dear Minister, Although I welcome the Governm...

The Homelessness Reduction Act comes into force April next year and the Government is running a consultation on the guidelines it is going to give to Local A...

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 ...

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 fee...

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 n...

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 Corsto...

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 v...