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.

We are working in partnership with leading cancer charities, Young Lives vs Cancer, Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG), Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust and Teenage Cancer Trust to build a new evidence base looking at the needs of young cancer patients and how the current system supports them. The research will identify gaps and what needs to happen in order to build a better future for children and young people diagnosed with cancer.

Reimagining Secure Care is a systemic change programme in Scotland to transform children and young people’s experiences of settings where their liberty is deprived and to find alternatives to being removed from their families and communities to access the additional support they need.

Reimagining Justice is a programme of transformational change to help redefine services for children and young people on the cusp of or in conflict with the law in Scotland.