people who can help
There are people and organisations who can help you get your point across.
Advocate
An advocate is someone who speaks on behalf of another person, particularly in a legal situation.
Advocacy services
- Speaking Up Carers' Service provides advocacy for any unpaid adult who is caring for an adult.
Advocacy services for adults with learning difficulties or disabilities
We will add direct links to each of these services soon. In the meantime click on the above link to get information on Speaking Up's advocacy services in Cambridgeshire.
- Speaking Up Community Service provides advocacy for adults with learning, physical and sensory disabilities. Advocates help with accommodation, safeguarding, complaints, accessing services, support and activities.
- Speaking Up for Families provides advocates for parents with learning difficulties or disabilities to help with issues around safeguarding children and young people and parenting issues.
- Speaking Up Carers' Service provides advocacy for an unpaid adult who is caring for another adult.
- Speaking Up Meldreth Manor advocacy service supports students with learning disabilities.
- Speaking Up also provides statutory advocacy for people lacking mental capacity around accommodation, serious medical treatment, safeguarding, care review and/or where their liberty is being deprived.
