Children's Advocacy
The Maze Advocacy Project
A national young people’s mental health project
Through the Maze is a handy 40-page guide which contains 10 elements of best practice, case studies and discussion articles around the therapeutic and emotional literacy benefits of advocacy.
Contact Details: www.mazeadvocacy.net
Listen Up
Listen Up is a toolkit from Mencap of multimedia resources to help children and young people with a learning disability complain about the services they use.
Contact details: www.mencap.org.uk or 020 7454 0454
Growing Up: Speaking Out
Sounds Good Project A guide to advocacy for young learning disabled people in transition (16 -25) by the ARX Sounds Good Project.
Contact details: andrea.dixon@advocacyresource.org.uk or 02380234 904
Measuring Up
A toolkit for improving advocacy practice. Produced by The Children's Society the toolkit includes the Disability Discrimination Act Audit specifically designed for advocacy projects. Measuring Up consists of a booklet, which provides a guide to using the resources and a CD-Rom, which contains the audit tools and materials, designed by young people from The Children's Society projects.
Contact Details: www.childrenssociety.org.uk or 0845 300 1128
I Can Tell You What I Want
A DVD showing six disabled young people's thoughts about where they live, their lives and their advocates. Produced as part of an evaluation of The Children's Society's Disability Advocacy Project in London and available direct from the project. There is also an accompanying evaluation report.
Contact Details: www.childrenssociety.org.uk or 0845 300 1128
How to Ask Us
A learning pack produced by The Children's Society providing information about involving disabled children and young people in decisions that affect their lives and consulting with them about the development of facilities and services. Includes a CD Rom and report about the many methods used in the Ask Us Initiative.
Contact Details: www.childrensociety.org.uk or 0845 300 1128
I'll Go First
Available in original toolkit and new CD Rom version - a resource which gives disabled children and young people the opportunity to make their views known in a creative, fun and immediate way. Particularly helpful in preparing for reviews, planning or any other decision making meetings and includes a wide range of story boards and graphics.
Contact Details: www.childrenssociety.org.uk or 0845 300 1128
Natural Allies Report
The Children's Society's PACT project has recently published their evaluation report about the Natural Allies model of advocacy, which the project developed and piloted in two local authorities. Copies of the report are available for free.
Contact Details: paxt-yorkshire@childrenssociety.org.uk or 01904 639056.
Two Way Street Video and Handbook
Produced by Triangle and NSPCC 2001.
A training video and handbook about communicating with disabled children and young people. The video is aimed at all professionals whose role includes communicating with children, it was developed in consultation with disabled children and young people.
The handbook (also sold separately) gives further information and guidance plus details of the main communication systems in current use in the UK and annotated references to good practice publications.
Contact Details: www.triangle-services.co.uk or 01273 413 141
How It Is
Produced by Triangle
An image vocabulary for children about feelings, rights, personal care and sexuality. The vocabulary comprises 380 images that are designed to be used as a flexible, child centred resource to support children to communicate about their feelings, bodies, rights and basic needs. Pack includes booklet and CD Rom. Produced by Triangle
Contact Details: www.triangle-services.co.uk or 01273 413 141
Speaking Out.
A guide for advocates for children and young people with learning disabilities. Produced by NSPCC in association with Voice UK. It is available to download free of charge from the website below. To order copies, its costs £2.50 per copy (discount for orders over 20 copies).
Contact Details: www.nspcc.org.uk or 020 7825 7422 publications@nspcc.org.uk