News (Advocacy)

Toby has been an independent advocate sine 2018 and currently works with Voiceability. Read his story.

Robert, a young person, explained to us why advocacy is important and why other young people should be more aware.

In this short film Katrin McEntee, Senior Human Rights Officer at the British Institute of Human Rights and former advocate, tells us how her advocacy work involved the Human Rights Act.

Welcome to Advocacy Awareness Week 2022. This is our 5th year of spending a week celebrating and raising awareness about independent advocacy and this year our focus is on advocacy and human rights.

This year's 5th annual Advocacy Awareness Week (#AAW22) takes place from 7th -11th November 2022.

Talking to Gail Petty and Kate Mercer about the new Advocacy Training Hub and how to get involved in this year’s Advocacy Awards, Advocacy Conference and Advocacy Awareness Week

The Henry Smith Charity, a grant-making trust, is launching a new grants programme to support advocacy for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.

Advocates play an often vital role within safeguarding adults; recognising and raising safeguarding concerns, supporting individuals through safeguarding processes, addressing systemic issues and feeding into Safeguarding Adults Boards.

In this blog post, The Advonet Group describe the power of using an advocacy approach in partnership to lead to local change, using the example of a local user-led service focused on one group that experienced clear inequalities.

For us the power of partnership means equality. It means respect and support. And there is no better example of this power in action than The Cumbria Learning Disability Autism Partnership Board, of which People First, some of our members and one of our Trustees, are proud to be a part.