Thanks for attending this year’s National Multiple Disadvantage Summit. Below you will find resources from the breakout sessions and the plenary sessions.
We will update this page with more information, write ups and presentations as they become available. This page was last updated on Thursday 21 May 2026.
Material from workshops
Workshop 1: Making sense of systems change: practical steps for learning and evaluation (with Carl)
Workshop 2: Lessons in Survival: what can we learn about prevention from people living with multiple disadvantage? (with Greg)
Workshop 3: Digger deeper: what’s next for multiple disadvantage data? (with Richard)
Workshop 4: Addressing the gaps: how do we use learning to further work for race equity?
Workshop 5: Great minds: what have we learnt about neurodivergence, and what can we learn from it?
Workshop 6: Two steps forward, one step back: why doesn’t learning always stick? (with Richard)
Workshop 7: Challenging assumptions: are we ready for anti-stigma change?
Workshop 8: “Too Risky!”: How does it feel to unlearn conventional support approaches to Domestic Violence and Abuse? (with Lauren)
Workshop 9: Led by lived experience: what happens when we prioritise relationships over traditional approaches? (with Hana)
Workshop 10: Overreliance on resilience: whose responsibility is preventing burn out? (with Maud)
Workshop 11: Death, dying and multiple disadvantage: how can Palliative Care approaches reshape our practice? (with Greg)
Material from Plenary Sessions:
- Slides from Joy Hibbins, Suicide Crisis Centre.
- Poetry from Kath Pengilley
- Unfortunately, the video from Max Nagel is too large to host on our website. You can learn more about Zombie ideas by contacting him directly – maxnagel@deloitte.de.
From our stands and exhibitors
Coproduction stand
- Especially recorded poetry and commentary from Dalton Harrison
Resource stand
- Northumbria’s Changing Futures Playbook (Full version)
- An evolving guide that brings together the key tools, approaches and principles that shape our way of working.
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s ‘Sharing Well’ Guide
- A guide to sharing and receiving information to assist individuals who seek our help.
- Cambridgeshire & Peterborough’s framework for understanding system impact
- The framework provides an overview of some of the considerations and theoretical models for evaluating programmes seeking to change systems. It then demonstrates how these concepts might be applied.
- Cambridgeshire & Peterborough’s trusted person approach
- A description of the programme’s person-centred model.
- Bristol’s ‘support for families through care proceedings: developing integrated, evidence-based and trauma informed approaches’ report with NIHR
- The full report which describes how we can improve support for families involved in care proceedings.
- Bristol’s ‘Support for families through care proceedings’ illustration / poster
- An easy to digest, illustrative poster which summarises the full report.
- Camden’s trauma informed framework
- A resource for empowering local trauma informed initiatives for Trauma Informed Practice.
- Camden’s co-produced personal passport
- By completing a personal passport, people can speak for themselves and have greater choice and control over how they are supported and understood.
- Camden’s co-produced personal passport guidance
- ‘Guidance to accompany Camden’s passport initiative.’
- Sussex and Nottingham’s PDU data webinar ‘from retrospective to predictive: mapping system pressure through swim lanes and algorithms’
- A session which explores how an algorithmic pressure index is being piloted to quantify and visualise planned vs unplanned demand, how this methodology is gaining traction nationally, and the implications for our work in SMD.
- Nottingham’s booklet ‘The human side of SMD’
- Designed and created by Charlotte Emma, this booklet was created to communicate the human side of SMD in an accessible way. Charlotte is keen to get the booklet out there, and is currently working on getting copies into GP surgeries and other spaces. if you’d like a copy please email charlotteemma29@outlook.com.
- Lancashire’s booklet ‘Rethinking the thinking on inequalities’
- Created by Naoimh McMahon, the booklet was produced as an accessible resource to support the re-thinking on how we respond to health inequalities and has been incredibly useful for influencing locally
Commercial stands
- Getting Clean soap social enterprise
- In-Form – case management and client relationship systems.
- Phoenix Futures – recovery support services
- Qlic charity IT support