Useful Links
Here are some other websites that we like, that we've used, or have useful information. We cannot guarantee that external websites will always be online, and we can't take responsibility for their content (that changes over time).
If you would like us to link to your website, have any other suggestions of good sites, or if you spot any problems with these links please let us know by emailing: info@advocacyaction.org.uk.
Advocacy networks and support organisations:
Action for Advocacy
Advocacy Network Leeds
Advocacy Resource Exchange
AdvocacyWiki.org
Citizen Advocacy Coalition
Older Peoples Advocacy Alliance (OPAAL)
Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance
Advocacy Mapping Project - find an advocacy project near you.
Local advocacy projects:
Advocacy Matters Wales (Cardiff and the Vale)
Advocacy Partners (South West London and Surrey)
ASIST (Staffordshire)
Cloverleaf Advocacy (Kirklees, Wakefield & Calderdale)
Dorset Advocacy
Equal Say (Glasgow)
Maze Advocacy (Young people in Somerset and Cardiff)
POhWER (based in Hertfordshire)
RASA Advocacy Project for refugees in Wakefield.
Advocacy stories and examples:
The people we have helped by RASA Advocacy Project in Wakefield
Citizen advocacy stories from Equal Say in Glasgow
Case studies from POhWER
Cyril's Story from East Cheshire Advocacy
Examples from the Advocacy Partners website
Advocacy resources:
Child Advocacy - Summary (Essex Uni) (
pdf)
Department of Health Children's Advocacy
Advocacy 2000
- Archives of this excellent project, including links to their excellent Standards and Principles documents.
Independent Advocacy A Guide for Commissioners
Independent Advocacy A Guide for Commissioners - Supplement pdf)
- Guidance for Scottish Local Authorities and Health Trusts to help them prepare for when advocacy support became a statotory right for people across Scotland in 2001.
Some older websites that will hopefully be updated:
People first - self advocacy network
Our webhost and advisor – based in Horbury
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