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VoiceAbility co-produced a film: Participation and Communication in The Court of Protection
VoiceAbility worked with researchers at ICPR, Birkbeck School of Law to make a training film for specialist lawyers who work in the Court of…
Rising to the challenge: reflections on advocacy
In light of Advocacy Awareness Week earlier this month, Jonathan Senker, Chief Executive of VoiceAbility, reflects on the challenges we face…
Safeguarding Adults Week: Shifting the balance of power
This article looks at how imbalances of power can increase the risk to abuse, and how advocacy can work preventatively by helping to redress…
Safeguarding Adults Week: A role for advocacy in challenging unhealthy cultures
7 years after Panorama exposed the abuse at Winterbourne View, an almost exact repeat of the vicious, toxic, bullying culture that had grown…
Safeguarding Adults Week: Non-instructed advocacy and preventing abuse
Not everyone can tell an advocate their views but they have the same right to be heard. Non-instructed advocacy is the work that takes place…
Safeguarding Adults Week: Professional curiosity and the Advocacy role
Professional curiosity is of central importance to safeguarding and to advocacy. When things go wrong, a lack of professional curiosity is…
Safeguarding Adults Week: What have we learnt from abuse?
Abuse filmed by the BBC at Winterbourne View in 2011 and Whorlton Hall in 2019 made clear in the starkest and most brutal way, the potential…
Mental Health Act: Call for “unequivocal commitment” to improve access to advocacy
Over fifty leaders in mental health and advocacy are calling on the government to “make an unequivocal commitment to improving access to…
Mental Health Act reform: one step closer
VoiceAbility’s Stephen Hinchley reflects on the government’s formal response to the public consultation on reforming the Mental Health…
Understanding culture and belief: an essential ingredient of good advocacy
VoiceAbility advocates share their take on the role of cultural understanding in good advocacy.
Mental health advocacy around the world: the importance of ‘opt-out’
Stephen Hinchley takes a look at what other countries do when it comes to an ‘opt out’ approach to advocacy.
Improving the Mental Health Act: Automatic advocacy for all
What difference would it make if advocacy was offered automatically to everyone on a mental health ward? Emma Foreman explains.