Project Co-ordinators: Sarah Goodfellow & Fiona Flanagan
Operations & Development Manager: Mark Gilroy
Our partners in running this service: Kirklees and Wakefield Councils
Referrals accepted from: People can be referred to the service by staff from Kirklees and Wakefield Councils and their health partners, including:
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doctors and nurses providing serious medical treatment
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social workers or community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) who are arranging hospital discharges
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social workers, CPNs and care managers who are planning long-term moves
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social workers and care managers who are undertaking adult abuse investigations.
(These people are known as ‘decision-makers’ under the Mental Capacity legislation.)
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
About the service
Who is the service for?
The Service’s Independent Mental Capacity Advocates work with people who – for reasons such as learning disability, dementia, mental health problems or brain injury – are unable to make specific decisions about the following areas (as set out in the Mental Capacity Act 2005):
- serious medical treatment
- accommodation changes that are for more than 28 days in hospital or eight weeks in a care home
- accommodation reviews
- adult protection.
The advocate will usually only be involved if there are no appropriate family or friends that can represent the person. The exception is issues related to adult protection when an Advocate may be consulted regardless of whether the individual has family members or friends.
The Service is staffed by a manager/advocate and three Independent Mental Capacity Advocates.
More information
To find out more about the service, please contact them direct.