Parental Advocacy
About
The role of the Advocate is to empower and assist parents to fully engage in the Children’s Social Care statutory processes. To do this the Service Provider will focus on providing support at the following:
Pre-meetings/Post Meetings
Assessments
AMS assessments
Child In Need (CIN) Meetings
Child Protection Conferences
Core Groups
Statutory Reviews
PLO meetings
Legal meetings
Court attendance
Eligibility
In Stoke-on-Trent Asist is providing advocacy for parents:
The person requiring support is a parent of a child/ children that are open to Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Children’s Social Care; and;
The person has a learning disability, autism, or complex need which leads to them having a substantial difficulty in one or more of the following areas:
Understanding relevant information
Using or weighing up information
Retaining information
Communicating their views, wishes and feelings; and;
There is no one appropriate or available to facilitate the person’s active involvement in the process
Referrals into the Parents Advocacy service will only be accepted upon receipt of detailed referral information that outlines any risks that need to be considered.
Referrals will only be accepted from the following Stoke-on-Trent City Council Children’s Social Care staff unless authorised by the Lead Commissioner:
Principal Managers
Practice Managers
Social Workers
Assistant Social Workers
Conference and Review Managers
Independent Reviewing Officers
