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POhWER Care Act Advocacy

by POhWER Advocacy

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The Care Act places a duty on local authorities to involve people as much as possible when their care and support is being assessed or reviewed or when they may be subject to safeguarding concerns. A person will be entitled to have an independent advocate under the Care Act if: • They are deemed to have “substantial difficulty” being fully involved in the process. This means they would have difficulty understanding, remembering, using or weighing up relevant information or in communicating their views, wishes or feelings • There is no appropriate person available to support and represent the person’s wishes An advocate can be involved when the local authority is: • Carrying out a needs assessment • Carrying out a child’s needs assessment • Carrying out a carer’s assessment, child’s carer’s assessment or a young carer’s assessment • Preparing a support plan or reviewing a care and support plan • Making safeguarding enquiries or arranging for a Safeguarding Adults Review Advocacy under the Care Act

Staff qualifications	Staff qualified to deliver the services of POhWER.
Genders	All
Age focus	18 year olds, 19-25 year olds, 26-65 year olds, 65+ year olds

About the organisation

POhWER has worked in Sandwell since 2006. Last year we provided advocacy support to 277 Sandwell residents. Our services include: NHS Complaints Advocacy for people who wish to make a complaint about treatment provided under the NHS Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA), including Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and Relevant Person's Paid Representative (RPPR) service is a statutory advocacy service to support vulnerable people who lack capacity and need to make important decisions but have no representatives as defined under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA). Anyone who is detained in a secure Mental Health setting in Sandwell is entitled to access support from an IMHA. This contract also provides an issue based advocacy service for informal inpatients of Sandwell (Hallam St) Hospital via drop ins. Community Advocacy for any person in Sandwell receiving a care/welfare services who has age-related needs, disabilities or prescribed physical or mental health conditions. Care Act Advocacy whereby Local Authority social care teams (and designated organisations) can make a referral to our service for you using the referral form. Volunteering in Sandwell. If you would like to apply all you need to do is fill in the online at pohwer.net and a member of our volunteer team will contact you to talk to you in more detail about local volunteer opportunities in your area.