Advocacy for people with a learning disability or autism

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Kate Mercer Training

Dear Hull City Council,

We are working on a funded review of advocacy for people with a learning disability and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health, learning disability or autism specialist hospitals.

Part of this review is to find out what advocacy is being commissioned and delivered across England.

We would be very grateful if you could tell us the following information about your local area:

1. Please tell us the name of the organisation/s who is commissioned to deliver the following types of statutory independent advocacy:
1.1 Independent Mental Health Advocacy
1.2 Advocacy under the Care Act
1.3 Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (including DoLS)

2. Please tell us the name of any organisation(s) that you commission to deliver any type of advocacy for the following groups. (This could include self advocacy support, community advocacy, peer advocacy).

2.1 children and young people who have a learning disability or autism in the community (for instance to prevent admission to hospital, or through the C(E)TR process)
2.2 adults who have a learning disability and or autism in the community (for instance to prevent admission to hospital, or through the C(E)TR process)
2.2 children and young people who have a learning disability or autism who are in inpatient settings (informal or formal patients)
2.3 adults who have a learning disability or autism who are in inpatient settings (informal or formal patients)
2.4 where a person is in segregation (or subject to any other restrictive practice)

3. Please tell us the name of any organisation(s) that you commission to deliver any type of advocacy to support parents or carers of children, young people or adults who have a learning disability and or autism.

4. Please tell us how many people with a learning disability and or autism who were detained under the Mental Health Act used the IMHA service between 1st April 2019 and 31st March 2020.

Thank you for your help. This information will be used to inform the review findings and influence decisions on how to improve the impact of advocacy.

Yours faithfully,

Kate Mercer

Information Governance, Hull City Council

Dear Ms Mercer,

 

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Questions

 

 1. Please tell us the name of the organisation/s who is commissioned to
deliver the following types of statutory independent advocacy:

 a. Independent Mental Health Advocacy
 b. Advocacy under the Care Act
 c. Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (including DoLS)

 

 2. Please tell us the name of any organisation(s) that you commission to
deliver any type of advocacy for the following groups. (This could
include self advocacy support, community advocacy, peer advocacy).

 

2.1. children and young people who have a learning disability or autism in
the community (for instance to prevent admission to hospital, or through
the C(E)TR process)

2.2. adults who have a learning disability and or autism in the community
(for instance to prevent admission to hospital, or through the C(E)TR
process)

2.2. children and young people who have a learning disability or autism
who are in inpatient settings (informal or formal patients)

2.3. adults who have a learning disability or autism who are in inpatient
settings (informal or formal patients)

2.4 .where a person is in segregation (or subject to any other restrictive
practice)

 

3.Please tell us the name of any organisation(s) that you commission to
deliver any type of advocacy to support parents or carers of children,
young people or adults who have a learning disability and or autism.

 

4.Please tell us how many people with a learning disability and or autism
who were detained under the Mental Health Act used the IMHA service
between 1st April 2019 and 31st March 2020.

 

 

If you wish to speak to anybody in respect of your request then please
contact the Information Governance Team on 01482 300300 or e-mail
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Information Commissioner’s Office

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SK9 5AF

 

Web site: [3]https://ico.org.uk

Report a concern: [4]https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

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Yours sincerely,

 

 

Information Governance Officer

Town Clerk's Service

Hull City Council

Tel: 01482 300300

 

 

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Information Governance, Hull City Council

Dear Ms Mercer

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Information Request - 001759/21

 

With regard to your Freedom of Information request received on 8 October
2021, please accept our sincere apologies for the delay and find our
response below.

 

 

1. Please tell us the name of the organisation/s who is commissioned to
deliver the following types of statutory independent advocacy:

1.1 Independent Mental Health Advocacy

1.2 Advocacy under the Care Act

1.3 Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (including DoLS)

 

All of the above are delivered by Cloverleaf using a block contract.

 

2. Please tell us the name of any organisation(s) that you commission to
deliver any type of advocacy for the following groups. (This could include
self advocacy support, community advocacy, peer advocacy).

 

2.1 children and young people who have a learning disability or autism in
the community (for instance to prevent admission to hospital, or through
the C(E)TR process)

 

Within Disability Services we use KIDS Advocacy service who come in
monthly to do independent children meetings and also wishes and feelings
work with our children.  This is a commissioned service.

 

Children’s Commissioning do not secure or hold the specialist information
requested, therefore we would suggest submitting your request to Health /
CCG who are best placed to answer.

 

Adults Services us Cloverleaf advocacy.

 

2.2 adults who have a learning disability and or autism in the community
(for instance to prevent admission to hospital, or through the C(E)TR
process)

 

Adults Services us Cloverleaf advocacy.

 

2.2 children and young people who have a learning disability or autism who
are in inpatient settings (informal or formal patients)

 

Please refer to our answer at question 2.1 with regards to Children’s
Services.

 

Adults Services us Cloverleaf advocacy.

 

2.3 adults who have a learning disability or autism who are in inpatient
settings (informal or formal patients)

 

Adults Services us Cloverleaf advocacy.

 

2.4 where a person is in segregation (or subject to any other restrictive
practice)

 

Adults Services us Cloverleaf advocacy.

 

3. Please tell us the name of any organisation(s) that you commission to
deliver any type of advocacy to support parents or carers of children,
young people or adults who have a learning disability and or autism.

 

Please refer to our answer at question 2.1 above.

 

4. Please tell us how many people with a learning disability and or autism
who were detained under the Mental Health Act used the IMHA service
between 1st April 2019 and 31st March 2020.

 

Adults Services only hold this information from October 2019 to 31^st
March 2020, the figure for this period is 150.

 

 

We hope that you will be satisfied with our response and should you
require any further information then please do not hesitate to contact
us. 

 

 

Should you wish to complain about our response in any way this must
initially be done by e-mailing [1][Hull City Council request email] or by
contacting us at The Information Governance Team, The Guildhall, Alfred
Gelder Street, Hull, HU1 2AA.

 

Your request for internal review should be submitted to us within 40
working days of receipt by you of this response.  Any such request
received after this time will only be considered at the Council’s
discretion.

 

If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the internal review then you
may take your complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the
government body established to enforce the legislation.

 

Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Web site: [2]https://ico.org.uk

Report a concern: [3]https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Email: [4][email address]

Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 (national rate)

 

ICO states that any emails you choose to send to them, or that they send
to you, are not secure as email messages can be intercepted.  ICO asks
that you include a contact telephone number on any emails you send to
them. 

 

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

 

 

Information Governance

Town Clerk's Service

Hull City Council

Tel: 01482 300300

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