Advocacy Model
Advocacy Experience model of advocacy is a paid, professional model that has the following principles:
- Independent
- Confidential *
- Issue-based
- Proactive
- Act on instructions not in best interests **
- Primary objective to support client to self-advocate
- Channel clients views, not filter them
- Aim to resolve issues at the lowest level
Advocacy Experience services reflects the standards set out in the Department of Health commissioned report 'Independent Specialist Advocacy in England and Wales: Recommendations for Good Practice'
(Barnes, Brandon & Webb 2002).
* Advocacy Experience Confidentiality Policy specifies 'breaches of confidentiality' protocol.
** Where client has difficulty to instruct or lacks capacity Advocacy Experience utilise our own best practice in 'non-instructed advocacy and IMCA'.
