Arrangements for independent advocacy
Dear Northampton Borough 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 Mr Huijbers
I am writing to acknowledge your request for information received by email. Your request has been allocated the above unique reference number, please use this reference number in any future correspondence regarding this request.
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Northampton Borough Council (the Council) does not provide this service in Northampton and holds no information in regard to your request.
In order to assist you with your enquiries the Council has identified Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) as the authority most likely to hold the information you have requested. Please redirect your request to NCC whose contact details are copied below.
NCC
One Angel Square
Angel Street
Northampton
NN1 1ED
Email [email address]
With kind regards
Peter Matthews | Data Governance Officer
01604 838529
Chief Finance Officer | Northampton Borough Council,
The Guildhall, St Giles Square, Northampton NN1 1DE | 0300 330 7000
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