Goals: To listen to disabled young people and highlight their concerns to decision-makers
Funding: The project costs 265,000 a year, which is provided by The Children's Society, and the London boroughs of Camden and Tower Hamlets
Disabled young people who are dependent on others for their care can face having to live in accommodation sourced for them by their local authority, and encounter difficulties in having their views and wishes taken into account.
Advocacy workers ensure disabled young people's own views are conveyed.
Since 2000, nine London boroughs have worked with The Children's Society's London Disability Advocacy Project. This aims to help disabled 11- to 25-year-olds who have been placed in residential schools, care homes and foster homes by their local authority.
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