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How can we protect people’s rights during coronavirus?
Jonathan Senker explores key lessons from a new report which draws on the experiences of advocates and people using social care and health services during the coronavirus pandemic.
Practice during the pandemic
Advocacy has never been needed more than it is now. The stories below show our commitment to overcoming the challenges of practice during a pandemic, and making meaningful connections with the people who most need our support.
Advocacy Awareness Week 2020
It’s Advocacy Awareness Week - a great opportunity to raise awareness of the power and impact of independent advocacy on people’s lives. Follow #AAW20 on Twitter to get involved.
Continuing Healthcare Assessments: the case for independent advocacy
The PHSO report on continuing healthcare highlights the challenges people face in accessing ongoing care for long-term complex health needs. The report shows how complaints about continuing healthcare assessments provide vital learning to drive required change and ensure that people’s rights are upheld and their voices are heard.
Liberty Protection Safeguards: Controversial role for care home managers shelved for now
VoiceAbility welcomes the government’s decision not to make care home managers responsible for the process to decide whether a person is deprived of their liberty when the new Liberty Protection Safeguards are introduced in 2022.
Dying to get it right: Supporting people with learning disabilities to address health inequalities in the face of coronavirus
People with learning disabilities are much more likely to die from coronavirus than people without learning disabilities. And Black and Asian people with learning disabilities are even more likely to die from coronavirus. This isn’t because the virus targets people with learning disabilities. It is because we are failing as a society to take enough action to support the health and wellbeing of people who are at the sharp end of structural and health inequalities.