What's new?

• GAIN has produced a 'models of provision and commissioning' report following work with its A Stronger Voice advocacy partners. You can read this report in the Personalisation section below.

Resources

Advocacy (general)

• Advocacy toolkit

If you are setting up a new advocacy service in Gateshead it is worth looking below at the Gateshead Code of Practice and key documents produced by Action for Advocacy. Do contact us if you are thinking about setting up a service in Gateshead.

Gateshead Code of Practice
Advocacy: On Your Marks - developing a new advocacy service
Advocacy: On Your Marks - templates and forms
Lost in Translation: outcomes of advocacy services
Putting advocacy in focus
Quality standards for advocacy schemes

• This handy GAIN presentation (in PDF format) includes guidance on how to make a referral and advocacy case studies. It is also available as a PowerPoint presentation on request

A short guide to advocacy

Autism

• National Autistic Society

• Fulfilling and rewarding lives: the strategy for adults with autism in England

BME advocacy

• Black and minority ethnic case advocacy pilot project at Newcastle CVS

• National BME Mental Health Advocacy network

• Ethnic minority dementia advocacy project

• Supporting advocates working with cultural diversity

• Towards culturally competent advocacy: meeting the needs of diverse communities

Carers

• This guide has been written to help you think about the types of help and support you may need as a carer

Gateshead Carer's Guide

Dementia

• 'Hear what I say' - developing dementia advocacy services

• Challenging methodology to develop a framework for supportive care

Down's syndrome and dementia

• A manifesto produced by an advocacy consortium, including GAIN

Manifesto for independent advocacy services in England and Wales

Depression

• Resources for older people with depression

Down but not out

Interpreting services

• Newcastle Interpreting Service

Independent advocacy

• An evidence review of access to independent advocacy
• Scottish Dementia Working Group
• DASN International

Independent mental health advocacy

• This report finds wide variability in the commissioning of advocacy services, which should be available as a right to all patients who are detained or treated under the 2007 Mental Health Act

Independent mental health advocacy report

Learning disabilities - self advocacy

• Your Voice Counts

• People First

Legislation

• An outline of the new safeguards from Skills for People and where to find more information

Deprivation of Liberties Safeguards

Non-instructed advocacy

What do you do when your partner and yourself have no reliable means of communication? A number of advocacy organisations have developed non-instructed advocacy practice which incorporates a number of approaches including: rights-based; person-centred; watching brief and witness-observer.

A number of advocacy organisations have developed policies and resources on non-instructed advocacy and asist is one of them.

The Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance has also developed guidelines

Personalisation

• GAIN's A Stronger Voice (ASV) project publishes resources that support advocacy projects in service delivery and efficiency

ASV - advocacy outcomes tool

ASV - advocacy outcomes presentation

ASV - local performance measures for advocacy

ASV - models of provision and commissioning

ASV - personalisation presentation

ASV - role and value of advocacy in personalisation

ASV outcomes framework - carers (of adults with a learning disability)
ASV outcomes framework - dementia
ASV outcomes framework - learning disabilities
ASV outcomes framework - mental health
ASV outcomes framework - older people
ASV outcomes framework - physical disabilities
ASV outcomes framework - visual impairment

• A series of nine factsheets produced by Gateshead Council

Employing a personal assistant - for those on personal budgets

• Gateshead LINk has produced a 'First Steps to Personalisation' leaflet and a personalisation guide for adults with social care needs

First steps to personalisation

Personalisation guide

• Three leaflets from the Social Care Institute for Excellence on the implications of personalisation for nursing homes, personal assistants and those with autistic spectrum conditions

Personalisation at a glance

Qualifications

• This City & Guilds link provides details of the new Level 3 Certificate in Independent Advocacy and the new Level 3 diploma in Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy

Nationally accredited advocacy qualifications

Research reports on advocacy

• This report looks at the independence of the advice and advocacy sectors, concluding they need to be free of public control

Rights With Meaning - Baring Foundation report

Stroke

• Stroke and advocacy stories for a research and development project in Scotland

• The Stroke Association is working with the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance to develop and evaluate effective approaches to advocacy support for stroke survivors and their carers