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Purpose

In this section

  1. 1
    Introduction
  2. 2
    Purpose
  3. 3
    Scope
  4. 4
    Legislation
  5. 5
    Associated policies
  6. 6
    Definitions
  7. 7
    Care Act duty to involve people in decisions that affect them
  8. 8
    What substantial difficulty means
  9. 9
    Care Act Advocacy for Adult Social Care processes including complaints
  10. 10
    Care Act Advocacy for safeguarding processes
  11. 11
    Who is appropriate to act as an informal representative
  12. 12
    When an Independent Care Act Advocate will be arranged even though there is an appropriate informal representative
  13. 13
    Changes to representation
  1. 14
    Out of County Care Act advocacy arrangements
  2. 15
    The Independent Care Act Advocate’s role
  3. 16
    Independent Care Act Advocates’ rights to access health and social care records
  4. 17
    The Council and Independent Care Act Advocates – working together
  5. 18
    Care home closures/provider failure
  6. 19
    Decisions that require an Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA)
  7. 20
    Independent Mental Health Advocates (IMHA)
  8. 21
    Commissioning requirements for Independent advocacy
  9. 22
    Dissatisfaction/Complaints
  10. 23
    Implementation
  11. 24
    Monitoring and review
  12. 25
    Appendix– Definitions
  13. 26
    Policy details

2.1    The purpose of this policy is to set out:

  • how the council will involve people in Adult Social Care decisions and processes that affect them, and 

  •  when duties to arrange an independent advocate under the Care Act, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) and the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) apply within Adult Social Care

Policy published : 1996

Policy reviewed : 2023

Last reviewed:
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