For organisations

Before you redesign a service, understand what it feels like to live inside it.

"Traditional performance data tells you what the service did.

Lived experience can help show what happened around it."

This is early data from a small number of experiences. It is shared to show what is possible โ€” not to make claims about every family.
What people experienced

The systems and services people have told us about

2 experiences have been documented so far. A person can name more than one system.

Education2
CAMHS1
SEND1
Local Authority1
What it cost them

The human cost people have described

Avg. delay

255.5 wks

Days spent chasing

0

Work days lost

0

Most affected life areas (high or severe)

Sleep2
Mental wellbeing2
Physical wellbeing2
Family life2
Relationships2
Education2
What wasn't asked

The questions people wish had been asked sooner

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What is this doing to the rest of the family? โ€” 1

Only responses where the person explicitly consented to aggregation are counted.

Where patterns are emerging

Early patterns across systems and places

Reported impact by system

Not enough per system yet.

Where experiences come from (min. 3 per area)

Not enough in any single area yet.

What could be asked differently

Questions worth asking earlier, and differently

Drawn from what people told us was never asked of them โ€” reframed as prompts for services to consider earlier.

Ask about the wider family, not only the person at the centre of the process.

Who this is for

People working to understand, design or improve services โ€” and the people who use them.

NHS organisationsLocal authoritiesSchoolsSEND servicesSocial careAdoption servicesCharitiesResearchersCommissionersPolicy teams

Read the evidence, or talk to us about what it might mean for your service.

No hard sell. We are interested in whether this is useful to you, and how it could be more so.

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