Advocacy (Learning Disabilities & Neuro-diverse) - North Hampshire

About

What is Advocacy? Advocacy is: listening to you, supporting you to speak up, supporting you to make your own choices and decisions, and supporting you to access your rights as a member of the local community. The aim of advocacy is for people to speak up for themselves as far as possible.

Speakeasy Advocates can help with: getting the right care and support, accessing services, finding out information, supporting you to make decisions and choices about the important things in your life, being included in your local community, making a complaint when things go wrong, having your say about local and national issues. Most of their work with people in the community is about removing barriers to accessing the right care and support. This can involve your advocate making calls or emails on your behalf, attending meetings and helping you speak up.

Referrals can be made directly by people and their families – you can call, email or text as well as contacting Speakeasy Advocacy through the website. Professionals and services working with people who are struggling to engage can also make referrals through the website.

About Speakeasy Advocacy

Speakeasy Advocacy aims to provide advocacy support to as many vulnerable children, young people and adults as possible. Currently their focus is on people with a learning disability or autism, other neuro diverse conditions or communication difficulties living in Basingstoke, Hart and Rushmoor.