National Lived Experience Evidence Repository

The National Lived Experience Evidence Repository currently connects public links and published work across systems, questions and reform processes; it is not yet a searchable national evidence infrastructure.

Public evidence is often organised by institution, inquiry or portfolio, while a person’s pathway may cross several of them. The repository’s present function is to point readers to available published reports, submissions and research, retaining the context needed to interpret each source. Its public value is a clearer route into the existing record—not a claim that the record is complete.

NLEC helps decision-makers see what individual systems cannot see on their own. A repository approach supports NLEC’s category of Cross-System Lived Experience Intelligence by keeping published evidence connected while preserving the source, scope and limits of each item. In NLEC’s method, Experience → Evidence → Intelligence → Reform, the repository supports the Evidence stage; it is a public evidence architecture, not a live database of individual experiences. Accountability remains a permanent function across the method, not an additional stage. The cross-system lived experience approach explains the perspective that informs this work; the Cross-System Lived Experience Intelligence page describes how evidence may be examined and synthesised.