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Your needs, your choice, your voice
Advocacy on your side, helping you to be heard

East Lancashire Advocacy Service is now trading as ADVOCACY FOCUS.

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We can help you to say what you need to say to the right people.

We work with you to secure your rights, represent your interests and obtain services you need. Our purpose is to give you the skills to speak up and be heard.

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  • Vacancies

    9 May 2013

    Advocacy Focus is looking to recruit an Administration Assistant (based in Accrington) and Sessional Advocates (for Lancashire, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen).  For more information please click on the Jobs page.  read more

  • Consultation: Advocacy in Education

    4 Mar 2013

    East Lancashire Advocacy Service is undertaking research into whether there is a role for advocacy in supporting parents to deal with issues relating to education.  Issues could be wide ranging, for example, obtaining a statement for your child, adm…  read more

  • FREE Conference – Enhancing Practice in the Implementation of the Mental Capacity Act – 13 February 2013

    11 Jan 2013

    The Mental Capacity Act, implemented in 2007, provides a framework to empower and protect people who may lack capacity to make some decisions for themselves. The aim of the Act was to make it clear who can take decisions in which situations, and how …  read more

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