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Advocacy
This part of the website tells you about what Valuing People says about advocacy. It has the advocacy toolkit, and information and links to other organisations. |
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What does Valuing People say? Valuing People said advocacy was one of the ways people with learning disabilities could get more choice and control in their lives. It said there should be more advocacy, so that people could choose which kind of advocacy suited their needs. Some of the different types of advocacy are:
- Self advocacy - speaking up for yourself
- Citizen advocacy - people who get to know someone with a learning disability so that they can help get their wishes understood and heard
- Short term, issue based or crisis advocacy - where people are (usually) paid to speak up for someone about a particular issue, or when they are in a crisis
It gave money to pay for more advocacy. It said there would be '????1.3 million for each of 3 years. These were to help build self advocacy and citizen advocacy.
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