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The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) was commissioned by Scottish Borders Council and the Scottish Borders Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) to undertake some early engagement work with the Hawick community and key stakeholders regarding views about the development of a care village in the area and options for health and social care provision in the future.

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.

The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) was commissioned in June 2022 by the Scottish Borders Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) to undertake a range of public engagement activities to inform the Health and Social Care Strategic Plan for 2023-2026.

Gordon joined the NDTi staff team in Summer 2022. He has over 30 years of Adult Social Care experience in the public sector both in Germany and England. Gordon held roles in Local Government ranging across Learning Disabilities and Preparing for Adulthood to Adults Services. This was in both operational and development roles leading transformation and personalisation.

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.

Advocacy Awareness Week 2022: Upholding Human Rights through independent advocacy. Kate Mercer from Blackbelt Advocacy talks about the importance of being heard and taking the time to listen.

Robert, a young person, explained to us why advocacy is important and why other young people should be more aware.

Toby has been an independent advocate sine 2018 and currently works with Voiceability. Read his story.

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.

Today's human rights theme is Right to Liberty. The Advocacy People have shared Carol's story, highlighting how advocates work to support people to have a say in how and where they live.