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What is Independent Professional Advocacy? 

Independent Professional Advocacy is a way to help people have a stronger voice in accessing the support they require to make long lasting changes in their own lives.

The role of our advocates:

• Supporting people who are marginalised in our society.
• Advocating on behalf of people who are unable to speak for themselves.
• Listening to someone and being non judgemental to their point of view.
• Helping people to feel valued.
• Understanding people’s situations and understanding what barriers have been put in place to prevent them from getting what they want or require.
• Offering the person support to tell other people what they want or require, or signposting them to other organisations who may be able to help.
• Empowering people to know and understand what choices they have and what the consequences of these choices might be.
• Enabling a person to have control over their life but taking up issues on their behalf if they want you to.

Our Advocates will not:

• Provide general advice.
• Complete forms.
• Act as a mediator.
• Be your Counsellor.
• Provide befriending.
• Be your carer or support worker.
• Consultation.
• Make decisions or advise people what to do.
• Solve problems themselves.
• Speak for people when they have the capacity to do so themselves.
• To agree with everything and do anything a person says and requests.