George's Story
Advocacy Focus explores #HumanRightsAdvocacy and Right to Liberty by sharing George’s advocacy journey after a hospital admission and subsequent move into a care home where he did not want to stay.
News (#AdvocacyinAction)
Guest blog: Ruth, what advocacy means to me as a young person
Ruth is a young person with lived experience of using formal and informal advocacy to get through a number of challenging situations in their life.
How advocate Toby uses human rights in his work
Toby has been an independent advocate sine 2018 and currently works with Voiceability. Read his story.
Guest blog: Robert, what advocacy means to me as a young person
Robert, a young person, explained to us why advocacy is important and why other young people should be more aware.
How can advocates use human rights to help get your voice heard?
In this short film Katrin McEntee, Senior Human Rights Officer at the British Institute of Human Rights and former advocate, tells us how her advocacy work involved the Human Rights Act.
Blog: The importance of human rights in independent advocacy
Welcome to Advocacy Awareness Week 2022. This is our 5th year of spending a week celebrating and raising awareness about independent advocacy and this year our focus is on advocacy and human rights.
Upholding Rights & Safety in Life Changing Decisions
Thoughts from Cal, an Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) from Advocacy Support Cymru
The Advocacy Sector – The Forgotten Cog of the Pandemic?
Advocacy Focus talk about supporting advocates to continue to do amazing work
Video: Confidentiality in Advocacy
Video from n|compass to explain how confidentiality works for #AdvocacyinAction "We will check what we do for you, and ask you what you think"
Let it evolve … Collaborate and Coproduce
Amanda Nally from the Community Led Support Programme talks about how to hear from people who don’t often have a voice.