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| Short-term contracts hamper take off for advocacy services |
| Author(s) | Sally Gillen, Caroline Lovell |
| Journal title | Community Care, issue 1692, 27 September 2007 |
| Pages | pp 4-5 |
| Source | http://www.communitycare.co.uk |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Court of protection ; Advocacy ; Voluntary agencies ; Contracts ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Exclusive report on the current state of play with regard to independent mental capacity advocacy services. A poll of 28 councils across England revealed that 14 contracts for Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) services were for one year only, while seven had been awarded three year contracts. This is making it difficult to fully develop such services. Department of Health (DH) guidance does not stipulate the length of such contracts, but a governmental third sector review is quoted as saying "that three-year funding relationships between the state and the voluntary sector should become the norm rather than the exception". These findings are pertinent in the light of the implementation of much of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 on 1 October 2007. The IMCA service, which was introduced under the Act, was implemented early in April 2007. See IMCA website: (http://tinyurl.com/yqlk51) (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070928202 A |
| Classmark | E: JVC: IQ: PK: 6QH: 3F * |
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