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Missing voices: a review of independent professional advocacy services for looked after children and young people, care leavers and children in need in Wales |
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Cardiff: Children's Commissioner for Wales, 2012. 39p. |
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The Children's Commissioner for Wales has produced a review of professional advocacy services for looked after children and young people, care leavers and children in need in Wales. This is the first statutory review by the Children's Commissioner for Wales. It highlights that many young people are unaware that a professional advocate is available to them through their local authority. The report makes a number of recommendations on improving advocacy services. These include the publication of guidance, standards, and an outcomes framework for advocacy services by the Welsh Government, and that the National Independent Advocacy Board should be disbanded, in order to re-establish a distinct Advocacy Unit. The report concludes that the Welsh Government should provide clear strategic direction to local authorities to ensure that all children who have statutory eligibility for independent professional advocacy wherever they live in Wales are able to access such a service through clear and consistent procedures and practice. |
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advocacy; Childrens Commissioners; childrens services; looked after children; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=5ff17ae8-fee4-4ccd-a09e-5c3539bf3c73 |
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