MEAM consultancy: Transforming services and systems
We work with local areas across the country to transform services and systems for people experiencing multiple disadvantage and improve people’s lives.
Our consultancy support regularly helps local areas to build effective partnerships, gain fresh perspectives, identify practical solutions to complex problems and to put lived experience at the heart of local work.
The authentic support we provide to local areas, organisations and partnerships varies according to their specific project, local context and ambitions. Our consultancy team have a deep knowledge of multiple disadvantage, a core commitment to coproduction and blend expert insight on systems approaches with a practical understanding of how services and local areas actually work.
We can support any area seeking to tackle multiple disadvantage on a broad range of systems issues. We have particular expertise in:
- Partnership development: Coordinating cross-sector approaches to multiple disadvantage
- Specialist systems consultancy: Helping local areas gain insight and resolve complex problems
- Coproduction: Empowering and embedding lived experience voice in service delivery and design
“The system change stuff has been a real struggle, but without MEAM we wouldn’t have got on the first rung.”
How we work with you
Our approach to consultancy support is ambitious but practical and speaks to a real-world context. We can offer:
- Flexible delivery models – face-to-face, online or hybrid.
- Tailored methods, including 1-2-1 mentoring, small to large group facilitation and support, and whole system events.
- Ongoing connection to the MEAM Approach network to draw learning and insight from live multiple disadvantage system challenges across the country.
- Options to use MEAM’s online community platform for peer learning and support.
“We had been trying the same things over and over and they weren’t working to get strategic change, but we have been supported to consider what other ways there could be of achieving a different type of systems change.”
Our consultancy support can work alongside our training offer, including our systems leadership training to create an all-round package that equips local systems with the knowledge, tools and mindset for sustainable and effective systems change.
Get in touch with info@meam.org.uk to speak to our team about your consultancy needs.