Trusting people with lived experience to decide what they understand

"Being inclusive does not need to be limiting"

In many areas of public life, the language that is commonly used is complex or opaque enough that it excludes many from taking part. As a response, lived experience-focused work often aims to keep things much simpler to be more inclusive. But can deciding what others can understand actually undermine the inclusion it's trying to achieve?

In this blog, Danny Sherwood from Co-create reflects on the assumptions that can sit beneath 'plain language' approaches, and argues for sharing ideas with people rather than deciding for them what they can engage with.

Co-create are supporting MCA to understand the role of lived experience across the programme. You can read the blog here.