National Care Service - independent advocacy: co-design insights and next steps – easy read

Introduction

This report shares what we learned from 47 group engagements where people talked about independent advocacy.

Independent advocacy is when someone helps another person to share their personal needs and understand their rights.

The aim of this work was to:

• Listen to people’s stories about using or trying to get independent advocacy

• Understand what makes it hard for people to get independent advocacy

• Find out what problems people want independent advocacy to help with

• Learn how people want independent advocacy to be provided

• Help make independent advocacy fairer and easier for people to access