Arrangements for independent advocacy

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Kate Mercer Training

Dear Richmond upon Thames 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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I refer to your request for information received on 07/02/2020.  Please
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Our Response:

 

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?

Independent Advocacy support under the MHA is provided by the IMHA
service, the provider is Cambridge House

 

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)?

Some support regarding CHC assessments may be dealt with under NHS
complaints Advocacy, if it relates to a complaint.

 

Please note that information you have requested regarding Childrens
advocacy is not held by London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. You may
wish to submit your request to Achieving for Children (AfC) who provide
Children’s Services on behalf of the Council.

 

AfC can be contacted directly with FOI requests via the following link:
[2]https://www.achievingforchildren.org.uk/...

 

 

Q3. Could you provide details of any service(s) you commission to provide
Independent Advocacy Support to people accessing personal wheelchair
budgets?

We do not provide any support for people with regards to their personal
wheelchair budgets as this is a NHS provision

 

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)?

See response to Q3

 

 

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