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Advocacy

Policies and guides

        Advocacy development project
        'Your guide to advocacy' book
        Guide on advocacy for people with high support needs
                           

Race equality in practice resource pack
Supporting Advocates Working With Cultural Diversity


Produced by North Wales Race Equality Network as part of the British Institute for Learning Disabilities and the Welsh Assembly Government Advocacy Grants Programme

Download resource pack

Download workshop evaluations & feedback

Advocacy development project

This work involves sharing good practice ideas between groups. We look at different ways to support those who are interested in advocacy by offering lots of information.

You can download some policies to help advocacy groups in their work. These include confidentiality policy, complaints procedure, working with vulnerable adults guidance and lots more. These policies are available for groups to use and adapt in ways that will suit them in their local areas.

Below are the policies available for downloading in PDF format:

Download    How advocacy works
       
Download    Complaints policy       

Download    Complaints and advocacy   

Download    Complaints and advocacy – what it means for you   

Download    Confidentiality policy

Download    Confidentiality and advocacy

Download    Confidentiality and advocacy – what it means for you

Download    Equal opportunities and advocacy

Download    Equal opportunities and advocacy – what it means for you

Download    Equal opportunities policy

Download    Statement of work practice

Download    Statement of advocacy – what it means for you


If you want to know more about the policies, email us at enquiries@bild.org.uk or telephone 01562 723027.

'Your guide to advocacy' book

Asist, an advocacy organisation in Staffordshire wrote a book about advocacy to help their clients understand better what they could expect from their advocate.

We at BILD thought this book was a good idea so we worked with Asist to make a few changes so that the book could be used by any advocacy group.

We have had lots of these books printed and we are sending a copy to each advocacy group that we know to see what people think about them. The idea is that each person that has an advocate will be given a book to help them understand about advocacy. We think this will save groups having to produce their own individual information. It will work out much cheaper for everyone.

If you want to order this book you please email us at enquiries@bild.org.uk They will cost £1 each. You can print your own labels and stick them on the back cover so that anyone you give a book to will know how to contact you.


Advocacy for people with high support needs

BILD is keen to find ways of making sure that advocacy is accessible to all people, including those with high support needs or significant barriers to communication.

Asist, an advocacy organisation in Staffordshire, have produced “The Watching Brief” which gives some guidance on how this may be achieved. If you have any other ideas we would be pleased to hear about them.

If you want to know more about this brief please email us at enquiries@bild.org.uk.


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