Family Advocacy
Independent advocacy service to support vulnerable adults involved in Child Protection cases.
What is Family Advocacy - Child Protection?
An independent advocacy service to support vulnerable adults involved in Child Protection cases.
How can I contact an advocate?
You need to be referred to the Family Advocacy service by a social worker, health services professional, or solicitor.
An advocate can:
- Accompany parents at Child Protection Conference, Reviews or Court Hearings
- Support parents at meetings with professionals
- Meet parents to prepare for or follow up Child Protection Conferences/Reviews/Court Hearings/other meetings with Professionals to ensure that parents understand decisions and actions
Benefits
- Supports parents through the complexities of child protection process
- More positive outcomes for children and parents
- Reduces demand for future support service
- Contributes to reduction in number of cases taken to court
How?
- Helps parents to understand the decisions that are made about them/their child
- Helps parents to understand the importance of engaging in activities/actions demanded by social services/courts as part of the child protection plan
- Helps parents to express their views and wishes to ensure they have been heard
- Speaks on parents’ behalf if they are unhappy about the way they are being treated by social services or they are worried about plans being made
- Helps parents to understand their rights
- Helps parents to make a complaint
You need to be referred to the Family Advocacy service by a social worker, health services professional, or solicitor.
What is the cost?
Family Advocacy is a subsidised service. The cost is £45 per hour, plus expenses. There is a minimum purchase of 16 hours (12 hours face to face plus 4 hours administration time).
CCP advocates can support parents at any stage in the Child Protection process – see examples below
How to access the CCP Advocacy Service:
Call us on 01242 694535
Click here to Email the Advocacy Service
A referral form for Family Advocacy - Child Protection Advocacy is available by clicking on the Referral Forms icon at the bottom of the page.