Support to Implement the Mental Capacity Act
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) places the individual at the heart of the decision making process and has the potential to improve the lives of many people, but the implementation of the act has...
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Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill: A guide for advocates
Guest Blog from Jonathan Senker, chief executive, VoiceAbility. VoiceAbility have worked with others to help improve the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill – but the new form is still flawed, explains Jonathan Senker, chief executive of VoiceAbility. Find out more about next steps and what it might mean for the people you support.
Advocacy programme
Our advocacy programme seeks to support best practice in the commissioning and delivery of independent advocacy.
Podcast: A Carer's Perspective on the Mental Health White Paper
A Mother, Carer and "Expert by Experience" of the Care and Treatment Review process offers her views
A review of advocacy
This report covers in depth research about advocacy for people with a learning disability and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health, learning disability or autism specialist hospitals.
Empowering rights through the Mental Health Bill
What does the draft Mental Health Bill mean for people with learning disabilities, autistic people, community support and advocacy?
Five Things to Learn from Panorama’s Dementia Exposé
OK, this is a longer blog than usual, but Monday night’s Panorama programme about an elderly lady with dementia being abused and neglected in a care home made me angry
Dignity, Institutionalisation and the Francis Report
Both the Francis Report on the neglect, abuse and deaths of predominantly older people in Mid-Staffordshire hospital and this week’s CQC report on wider hospital failure telling a sorry tale.
Human Rights in Advocacy
Katrin McEntee, from The British Institute of Human Rights, discusses why Human Rights needs to be used in Advocacy and how it can be done.
How the power of advocacy and user involvement together can change the system
A blog from Judith Davey of The Advocacy Project, giving a clear example of how advocacy and user involvement can make big changes to both advocacy service users and the wider population.