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The best things in life are free
— community-powered advocacy | | Author(s) | Clare Wightman |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 17, no 1, 2013 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2013 |
| Pages | pp 25-31 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com |
| Keywords | Needs [elderly] ; Community work. |
| Annotation | Advocacy practice is about being a corrective to failures in other services and an intermediary between service users and providers. It can be very vulnerable at times to being seen as an "add-on" of unproven value. This opinion piece explores fresh approaches to advocacy for older and disabled people, and suggests a new role for professional advocates. It uses the experiences of Grapevine in Coventry, and draws on the findings of a project conducted with advocacy organisations in the Midlands and South East, many of whom felt that professional advocacy was not getting to the root of the problem. The article asks practitioners to consider the new role advocates might play in developing and connecting networks of local people for mutual help and support. This "community-powered" advocacy could provide effective root cause help and protect the sector's legitimacy during unprecedented financial austerity. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130412209 A |
| Classmark | IK: IGC |
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