Arrangements for independent advocacy
Dear Mansfield District Council,
We would like to request information on which (if any) services you commission to provide Independent Advocacy for people accessing support in the following processes in your area:
- s117 aftercare (under the Mental Health Act)
- Continuing Health Care (CHC)
- Continuing Care
- personal wheelchair budgets
- personal health budgets
Q1. Could you provide details of any service(s) you commission to provide Independent Advocacy Support to adults and children or young people receiving aftercare support under section 117 of the Mental Health Act?
Q2. Could you provide details of any service(s) you commission to provide Independent Advocacy Support to people going through Continuing Health Care processes (adult) or Continuing Care (children)?
Q3. Could you provide details of any service(s) you commission to provide Independent Advocacy Support to people accessing personal wheelchair budgets?
Q4 Could you provide details of any service(s) you commission to provide Independent Advocacy Support to people accessing or using personal health budgets processes (both adult and children)?
We would be grateful if you could tell us which services are commissioned.
And lastly we would be grateful if you could indicate the budget allocated for any of the above types of advocacy?
Yours faithfully,
Katja Huijbers
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Dear Ms Huijbers
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST – Ref No: 004885
Thank you for your email of the 7 February 2020 where you requested
information about independent advocacy services.
I am writing to advise you that, following a search of our paper and
electronic records, I have established that the information you requested
is not held by this Council. Mansfield District Council is not
responsible for social care, Nottinghamshire County Council are
responsible for social care in the Mansfield district.
Nottinghamshire County Council may hold the information you are seeking.
If you have not already done so, then you may wish to write to: Freedom of
Information, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough
Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [1][email address].
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Yours sincerely
Colin Sawers
Information Officer
Ashfield and Mansfield Legal Services
Ashfield District Council
Urban Road
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
NOTTINGHAM
NG17 8DA
Tel: (01623) 457332
Email: [email address]
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