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Advocacy in Thurrock

Our Advocacy services in Thurrock include:

• Professional Community Advocacy
• Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA)
• Self Advocacy Support

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Professional Community Advocacy

In Thurrock, we provide general advocacy to people with a disability, who are aged between 18 and 65. Last year, we supported 69 people on issues that included child protection, accommodation and safeguarding.

We support people to:

• Speak up for themselves. If they do not feel confident to speak up themselves, we would work with them to clearly understand their wishes, so that we could represent them
• Have choice and control over their lives and make decisions
• Understand their rights and responsibilities
• Access and understand good information to enable them make informed decision

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Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA)

We work with people who have been assessed as lacking capacity and who do not have family or friends who are appropriate to speak up for them. This work is always about decisions around serious medical treatment or changes in long term accommodation.

An IMCA can also support where there are concerns regarding Safeguarding or care reviews.

We provide the IMCA service in Partnership with Thurrock Mind and are now taking referrals from Basildon Hospital for Thurrock residents.

We also work in the area to raise awareness of the rights and responsibilities around capacity, providing training and presentations to care homes, social services etc.

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Self Advocacy Support

We work with different organisations in the borough, so that people with disabilities feel comfortable speaking up for themselves, and others.

Within the Thurrock Learning Disability Partnership Board, we work with the representatives, supporting them to fulfill their roles. This includes:

• Pre and de-brief meetings to prepare and recap the events of the partnership.
• Information gathering
• Presenting things of interest to the Board
• Attending and participating in meetings within the Eastern Region

Within the Directors of Community Interest Company, we support the directors to fulfill their roles, including support to:

• Prepare for meetings
• Undertake their portfolio of work
• Consult customers
• Represent the company at meetings/conferences

If you have questions on any of the work we do in Thurrock, please feel free to get in touch with our advocates, using the details below.