WAND Advocacy Service
The WAND Advocacy Service can help you have your say and to take control of the decisions that affect you and your life.
Advocacy can help you by:
- Helping you to clarify your own views and wishes
- Supporting you to speak up for yourself and your views effectively
- Representing your views on your behalf
- Providing you with independent advice and information to enable you to make an informed choice
- Helping to negotiate and resolve situations where there is a conflict
The Advocacy Service is free and confidential and is open to disabled and
deaf people living in Westminster. Press the Get started button above to
get advocacy.
If you find this difficult you can call us and we can help you.
Examples of how the Advocacy Service can support you include:
- Housing issues
- Making complaints
- Independent living
- Assessing social, community and health services
- Support at hospital appointments / ward rounds
- Attending meetings / writing letters
- Immigration and Asylum advice
- Benefits and money issues
- Education and training
- Employment
- Equipment
- Holidays/Leisure
- Legal Advice
- Transport
Deaf Advocacy
If you are Deaf or hard of hearing we provide a BSL (British Sign Language)
interpreter. Please contact our Deaf Advocate.
