AQW 49354/11-16

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 01/10/2015
Answered On Date: 23/02/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail the independent advocacy services that have been commissioned by his Department and the Health and Social Care Board, in each of the Health and Social Care Trusts, since 2012.

Answer:

The Health and Social Care Board directly commissions regionally-delivered specialist advocacy services from:

the British Deaf Association;

Voice of Young People in Care, and

the Eating Disorders Association Northern Ireland.

The Health and Social Care Trusts commission advocacy services in line with local needs and priorities, for mental health, learning disability, physical disability, older people and children’s services, and carers.