Refer for the advocacy service you or the person you work with here.
Here at The Advonet Group, we provide advocacy services to people in Leeds. Along with our partners, we aim to offer advocacy to anyone who needs it. We can help you to speak up and have your voice heard on issues that are important to you.
If you would like to make an advocacy referral, or if you are making a referral on behalf of someone, please click on the relevant button further down the page.
What kind of advocacy do you need?
Care Act Advocacy
Community Advocacy
Health Complaints Advocacy
Getting someone’s rights upheld if they are going through an Adult Social Care Act Assessment.
Support to access information, understand your rights, and have your voice heard.
Support to raise a complaint about NHS care or treatment.
Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA)
Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA)
1.2 Representative Advocacy
Support for a person who is having a best interest decisions made for a Change of Accommodation or Serious Medical Treatment.
Independent advocacy for patients detained under the Mental Health Act.
Referrals for this service can only be made by a legal or social care professional.
If the referral is with regard to a safeguarding issue, then please use the Care Act Advocacy referral form.
Unsure which service is for you?
If you don’t know which advocacy service is right for you, find out more by clicking on the buttons below:
We also have a General Enquiry form for any questions you have.
Referrals for our other services
As well as our advocacy services, there are referral forms for our Learning Disability Day Opportunities, Leeds Autism AIM and Bradford and Craven Autism AIM services.
Leeds Autism AIM provide self-advocacy support, information and signposting, one-to-one peer support, post-diagnostic support, employment mentoring and run peer-led groups for autistic adults (aged 18 and over) who get little or no funded support living in the Leeds area.
Bradford and Craven Autism AIM offer one-to-one peer support, information and signposting and have a Health Access Project to help autistic adults to access local GP services. It is for autistic adults (aged 18 and over) in the Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven areas.
Asking You – Learning Disability Day Opportunities: Groups
Asking You – Learning Disability Day Opportunities: Friendship Group
Our Learning Disability Day Opportunities service is for adults in Leeds with a learning disability aged 18 and over. It runs regular weekly groups from Tuesday to Friday. The standard hourly rate for joining groups is £13 an hour to join. If self-funded, the hourly rate is £13 plus VAT.
Our Learning Disability Day Opportunities service runs a weekly Friendship Group for adults with a learning disability in Leeds aged 18 and over. It is funded by a grant from The National Lottery Community Fund and free to join. The group meets on Wednesdays from 6pm-8pm.
Further information
If you have any questions at all about making a referral for our advocacy or inclusion services, please get in touch. You can:
- Call our office on 0113 244 0606
- Email us at [email protected]
- Write a letter to our address: The Advonet Group, Unity Business Centre, 26 Roundhay Road, Leeds LS7 1AB
