Essex Paid Relevant Person Representative (RPR)

• CM1 1HT, < 1 mile from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

To deliver independent advocacy statutory services to the following eligible children and young people receiving social care services to support them when making or intending to make a complaint or representation: (1) Children and young people aged up to 18 years The provider will deliver independent and confidential advocacy services that are fully accessible to eligible children and young people, receiving a service from Essex Children’s Social Care who are living with the administrative boundaries of Essex and for children in care and care leavers, placed both within and outside administrative boundaries. (2) Children and young people aged up to 19 years, if they have a disability. (3) Care leavers aged 18 to 21 and from April 2018 up to 25 years.

• CM1 1HT, < 1 mile from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

Young people with mental health problems who are receiving Community Mental Health Services or who have been admitted to a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Tier 4 in-patient unit in North Essex or out of area and registered to a Mid or West Essex CCG practice

• CM1 1HT, < 1 mile from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

The purpose of the Care Act Independent Advocacy Service is to enable people who have substantial difficulty in being involved in the Local Authorities care and support processes and have no appropriate individual to support and represent them, to be supported in that involvement as fully as possible. The ultimate aim is for people’s wishes, feelings and needs to be at the heart of the assessment, care planning and review processes; and for those who are the subject of a Safeguarding Enquiry or Safeguarding Adult Review.

• CM1 1HT, < 1 mile from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

The purpose of the health complaints advocacy is to empower and support people to make a complaint about the service that they have received from the NHS, whether directly provided or commissioned by the NHS. The service will be provided to anyone who is a resident of Essex who wishes to make a complaint about a service commissioned or provided by the NHS. This is to include people within secure environments

• CM1 1HT, < 1 mile from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

The IMCA service provided will be to all individuals staying at the time of instruction within the Local Authority area, regardless of the individual’s ordinary residence/funding authority. Staying includes temporarily living within the Local Authority

• CM1 1HT, < 1 mile from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

The IMHA service will work with a qualifying patient if that person is subject to a CTO and resident within the Essex County Council Local Authority area or is detained under any of the above in a hospital within the Essex County Council Local Authority area. This includes qualifying patients who are placed in hospitals or other secure settings in Essex, but are not normally resident there.

• CM1 1HT, < 1 mile from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

Non-statutory advocacy services such as citizen advocacy and other self-help advocacy to deliver better outcomes for vulnerable people who would otherwise not have their voice heard.

• CM1 1HT, < 1 mile from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

If you are a young person receiving social care services, you have a right to access independent advocacy. An advocate can help you to make a complaint or to support you to have your views heard in decision-making meetings. Find out more about what the service can offer by visiting: https://www.rethinkessexadvocacy.org/ or click the button below.

• DA11 0BQ, 20 miles from this service
• Tag: Community support

The service provides one-to-one befriending by trained volunteers, as well as support and information. The service is available to those in Gravesend, Dartford and Swanley.