advocacy

• advocacy


  speaking on behalf of someone else, to represent their interests
• what does an advocate do?

  enables a SU to:

  • express their views and concerns so they are taken seriously
  • access information and services
  • defend and promote their rights and responsibilities
  • explore choices and options
• advocate can enable people to challenge discrimination and avoid effects of being labelled
• who can be an advocate?

  • organisations and charities have professional advocacy services
  • friends, family and carers
  • individual cann be an advocate on their own behalf
• who might need an advocate?

  • people with mental ill health
  • people with a learning disability
  • children
  • people whose first language is not english
  • people with speech difficulties or confidence issues
• peer advocacy


  where people with a problem can help people with the same problem
• statutory advocacy


  where an individual is entitled to advocacy under the law