2025 Summit Material

Thanks for attending this year’s National Multiple Disadvantage Summit! We hope you enjoyed the day.

Below is a list of downloadable content from the day. We will update this in due course as we get material in. If your session does not yet have downloadable material, please bookmark this page and come back again soon.

Plenary sessions

Surfing Sofas, our resident poet for the Summit, produced and performed material based on his conversations with people on the day. Download the written version here.

Breakout Write Ups and slides

We will produce a short write up of each workshop and publish them here in due course. Where breakout sessions used slides, we will include them here.

Workshop 1: The Bottom Line: How can local businesses help tackle multiple disadvantage?

Workshop 2: Global Connections: international perspectives on tackling multiple disadvantage.

Workshop 3: Who gets a say and why? Working in partnership with marginalised groups and communities – Slidedeck

Workshop 4: Finding the thread: where does the criminal justice system sit in terms of tackling multiple disadvantage?Slidedeck

Workshop 5: The care-leaver gap: What does prevention really mean in complex systems?

Workshop 6: University Challenge: Working closely with academics to improve outcomes for people facing multiple disadvantage

Workshop 7: Traumatised systems: Can the most difficult interventions like child removal ever be trauma informed?Slidedeck

Workshop 8: How successful is your system? Advancing your approach – Slidedeck

Workshop 9: The power of frontline workers: How can their depth of experience be harnessed for system change?Slidedeck

Workshop 10: Coproduction: Language, labels and “living experience” – Slidedeck.

Workshop 11: Making Every Person Count: data and insight for change

Workshop 12: Supporting people who sell sex: the legislative framework, potential changes and what this means in practice.Slidedeck.

This page was last updated on 28th May 2025.