Dartington Service Design Lab is working with London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) and Friendhood to build a shared, city-wide understanding of trauma-informed practice to lay the foundations for meaningful, system-wide change in London. The Trauma-Informed London Project brings people together across sectors to create a consistent vision and definition of trauma-informed practice, elevate promising practice, and strengthen London’s collective capacity to work in trauma-informed ways and reduce violence.

Inclusion as Prevention is a system change initiative seeking to collaboratively re-shape the design and delivery of preventative services for young people who are at risk of involvement in offending. The aim is to shift practice from reactive and crisis driven approaches, to instead identify and intervene at an earlier in young peoples’ lives.

We are working in partnership to undertake a three-year system change  initiative to promote young people’s emotional wellbeing and to address emotional coercive control in adolescent relationships.  It forms part of the National Lottery Community Fund’s Early Action System Change Fund tackling the root causes of inequality.

Using system dynamics we are helping local authorities to understand system behaviours operating within their children’s social care services, to help improve policy, process,  and practice and  ultimately  to keep more children safely at home with their families.

We are working in collaboration with Barnardo’s and local authorities in Plymouth and Brent to support more care-experienced young people to be in employment, education or training by the age of 19-21.

We are  currently  working with Southend  A  Better Start and  Public Health at Southend Borough Council to map the services  currently  available to families with children from conception to age 19.  This is to understand the current service landscape in Southend and aid future system reform.

We are working with Surrey County Council and the six associated Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) to inform the redesign of the emotional wellbeing and mental health services for children and young people in Surrey.   

We are working with the Centre for Homelessness Impact to make sense of the complexity of homelessness. With experts in the field we are building a system map that charts the inter-related causes and consequences of homelessness to guide action in a complex world.

The is a feasibility study in three towns in England, exploring the readiness and suitability for long-term investment under a collective impact framework. We will conduct interviews and workshops with stakeholders from the public, private and voluntary sectors, focus groups with young people and town visits.