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As a self-advocacy organisation Ace Anglia's priority has always been to support people with a learning disability and/or autism to have a voice and a platform to be heard.

In this blog post, The Advonet Group describe the power of using an advocacy approach in partnership to lead to local change, using the example of a local user-led service focused on one group that experienced clear inequalities.

For us the power of partnership means equality. It means respect and support. And there is no better example of this power in action than The Cumbria Learning Disability Autism Partnership Board, of which People First, some of our members and one of our Trustees, are proud to be a part.

Advocacy organisations have started working together in new ways, as this collaborative blog explains.

Empowerment can be defined as processes applied by others that facilitate the capacity of other individuals or groups to exercise personal autonomy of decision making and action. Approaches to empowerment can take lots of forms...

Welcome to Advocacy Awareness Week 2020!! It’s time for our third annual advocacy awareness week and this year, perhaps more than ever, it feels vital to be sharing and telling our stories about all that...

Working in partnership with minoritised communities doesn’t just miraculously happen, it requires skillful building of trust and a demonstration of being an ally, before an organisation will feel that they can invest time in working...