Peer Advocacy & Participation Service

At the heart of this service model is the belief that this service should be as independent and impartial as possible of the drug and alcohol treatment provider(s), health and/or social care system. An element of the service will be advocacy and ‘Independent advocacy’ cannot, therefore, be delivered by member of staff employed by the service/Supplier themselves. By providing independent advocacy this enables the person to question or challenge the professionals’ views, while retaining confidentiality if they need t...