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Improving safeguarding for people in high-risk settings
Independent advocacy should be an essential safeguarding tool for people in high-risk settings.
Safeguarding people who don’t have a voice from abuse
As independent advocates, many of the people we work with are not able to express their own feelings and wishes.
Closed cultures: how advocates can avoid being ‘part of the problem’
Advocacy has to be independent to be effective – and we must be alert to the risks to that independence.
Safeguarding Adults Week: a year of learning
We’re taking the opportunity to reflect on what we’ve learned, and the actions we’ve taken as a result.
New NICE guidelines on adult advocacy services published
The new guidelines set out expectations for advocacy services for adults with health and social care needs.
Glasgow school learns about advocacy in new VoiceAbility careers week
VoiceAbility went back to school in Govan, Glasgow this week for an innovative new work experience project.
Advocacy Awareness Week 2022: upholding your human rights
This Advocacy Awareness Week in England and Wales, we’re going to share some of the ways human rights and advocacy are intertwined.
Speak Out Council Leaders in Cambs on awards shortlist
Six leaders are finalists in the Dimensions Learning Disability and Autism Leaders’ Awards.
Empowering individuals: how NHS complaints advocacy helped Jennifer and her daughter
Jennifer’s daughter Lilah had a growing tumour between her brain and her eye. Jennifer wanted to make a complaint about Lilah’s care and…
How opt-out mental health advocacy can help create lasting change
VoiceAbility’s new research makes a clear case for automatic advocacy referrals.
Independent Mental Health Advocacy in action: Ryan's story
The law says that when you are detained under the Mental Health Act (“sectioned”), you have the right to help from an advocate.
Mental Health Act reform: VoiceAbility submits evidence
VoiceAbility’s evidence to the parliamentary committee scrutinising the government’s draft Mental Health Bill has now been published,…