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HUBB Mental Health User Group
T: 020 8590 2666 F: 020 8590 2169 E: info@hubb.eclipse.co.uk
109 Rose Lane, Marks Gate, Romford, RM6 5NR
HUBB has attained the Advocacy Quality Performance Mark and provides Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA), Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA), Generic Advocacy and DOLS Paid Representation for Havering and Barking & Dagenham.
WHAT IS ADVOCACY?
- Advocacy is the process of speaking up for or acting on behalf of yourself or another person.
WHAT IS IT FOR?
- To ensure the person’s voice is heard
- To secure services which the person requires
- To secure rights to which the person is entitled to
AIMS & OBJECTIVES:
- To help all people who use Mental Health Services obtain their full range of human and civil rights
- To provide advocacy services in a culturally sensitive and non-discriminating manner
THE WAY WE WORK:
- Self - advocacy is both the underlying philosophy and the concrete goal of all our work:. It is both our experience and belief that this is the only relevant way of working as advocates. It is also the most effective and empowering. It is a genuinely user-led process and advocates will only take action at the instruction of service users
- We never take a ‘best interests’ approach, unless working in a formal non-instructed capacity, and this is the key difference between mental health advocacy and other kinds of mental health work.
- We take our main principles of working as those defined in the Advocacy Charter – Advocacy Across London (2003)
HUBB is very pleased to announce that its ‘Mental Capacity Act & the role of the IMCA’ programme is now accredited through Advantage Accreditation. Click HERE for more details.
Social Care Institute for Excellence - The Care Quality Commission has produced guidance on compliance with the Mental Capacity Act. It includes information about what evidence it may look for and reminds providers of the requirement to alert CQC of any applications for deprivation of liberty.
CQC Mental Capacity ACT guidance Information about notifications for NHS trusts
Information about notifications for adult social care services
