The excitement is building and we’re loving hearing about all your ideas and planned activities for the third annual advocacy awareness week. Many thanks for those of you who have been in touch with content you want to share! If…
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Advocacy Conference 2020
Our Friends over at Black Belt Advocacy have got one week of amazing events lined up from the 26th to 30th October. Instead of the National Advocacy Conference taking place at a live event in Birmingham, it is moving online…
Upholding Rights and Valuing Voices: Advocacy Principles for Coronavirus and beyond
Advocacy can help people get the care and support they need and deserve. That’s never been more important. It’s those who already found it harder to have their voices heard who have suffered most from the coronavirus restrictions we have…
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Updated Government guidance – published 22nd July
Visiting care homes during coronavirus A Breakdown of the visiting care homes guidance from 'Mental Capacity Law and Policy' by Alex Ruck Keene Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for people receiving direct payments Coronavirus outbreak FAQs: what you can and can’t do…
The LeDeR Annual report
The LeDeR Annual report was published last week. People with learning disabilities in England continue to die prematurely and from treatable causes of death, the latest annual report from the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) programme shows. If you haven’t…