Advocacy & Your Rights

At Dumfries and Galloway Advocacy Service, we will help you to find the right support if we cannot provide it ourselves. Watch the SIAA’s short film – A Voice to Trust – to find out more about the different types of advocacy.

Advocacy is about:

  • Protecting your rights when you are vulnerable
  • Listening to you
  • Ensuring that you are listened to
  • Providing you with information so that you can make informed choices and decisions
  • Helping you to express yourself and take part in decisions which affect you
  • Respecting your right to make your own choices
  • Being there for you without conflict of interest

Advocacy is not about:

  • Providing you with legal representation or supporting you in court
  • Suing for financial damages or compensation
  • Welfare Rights support
  • Befriending
  • Counselling or Treatment

Advocacy must:

  • Be Accessible to all who require it within our remit
  • Be Accountable to those who use it and fund it
  • Put those who use it first
  • Be as free as possible from conflicts of interest

Advocacy is not, primarily about complaining or seeking confrontation. It is about:

  • Communication
  • Resolution
  • Helping you to be heard

Use our quick and easy online Referral Form to get in touch with Dumfries and Galloway Advocacy Service today. We may contact the Referrer for further information if required.

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