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Independent Care Act Advocates’ rights to access health and social care records
In this section
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1Introduction
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2Purpose
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3Scope
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4Legislation
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5Associated policies
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6Definitions
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7Care Act duty to involve people in decisions that affect them
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8What substantial difficulty means
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9Care Act Advocacy for Adult Social Care processes including complaints
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10Care Act Advocacy for safeguarding processes
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11Who is appropriate to act as an informal representative
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12When an Independent Care Act Advocate will be arranged even though there is an appropriate informal representative
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13Changes to representation
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14Out of County Care Act advocacy arrangements
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15The Independent Care Act Advocate’s role
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16Independent Care Act Advocates’ rights to access health and social care records
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17The Council and Independent Care Act Advocates – working together
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18Care home closures/provider failure
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19Decisions that require an Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA)
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20Independent Mental Health Advocates (IMHA)
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21Commissioning requirements for Independent advocacy
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22Dissatisfaction/Complaints
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23Implementation
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24Monitoring and review
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25Appendix– Definitions
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26Policy details
16.1 The council has a duty to provide information to Independent Care Act Advocates so that the advocate can effectively represent the interests of the person they are representing.
16.2 Independent Care Act Advocates may examine and take copies of relevant health and social care records for the person they are representing provided that:
- the person provides their consent for the advocate to do so, or
- if the person lacks capacity to provide consent, the advocate is satisfied that accessing the records is in the person’s best interests.
Policy published : 1996
Policy reviewed : 2023
Last reviewed: