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Category Archives: News

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Supporting another person should be a proud thing!

16th May 2022 Clare TarlingNews0

This story about a young man is fictional, but based on real-life contacts the writer regularly makes in her work, voicing the views of Learning …Read More

The most effective tool on the table

7th October 2021 Clare TarlingNews1

As a teenager, I didn’t want to study abstract things,  that didn’t have meaning to my young self – maths, for example. I found my …Read More

A person is being stopped from leaving their home by a member of staff.

Liberty Protection Safeguards

4th August 2021 Clare TarlingNews0

We have created an Easy Read guide to the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS):

Liberty Protection Safeguards: Easy Read: PDF, 4.3 MB
Video Version: You Tube …Read More

Coronavirus Guidance

2nd April 2020 Clare TarlingNews0

We have written an Easy Read guide to how the Coronavirus Act may change the Care Act 2014. We hope you find it helpful. Please …Read More

Retired, but working hard with Dorset Advocacy

20th September 2018 Clare TarlingNews1

After almost 2 months of being retired I was wondering what I was going to do to fill my time, when in popped the monthly …Read More

Give a little bit…and get so much back.

9th April 2018 Clare TarlingNews0

Volunteering at Dorset Advocacy
You might say “I don’t have time to volunteer” – this is probably exactly what I would say if I wasn’t already …Read More

Volunteer Team Gathering

21st March 2018 Clare TarlingNews0

17 of our fabulous volunteer team had a get-together today today at our office in Poundbury, which was hosted by Emily Brown, our Volunteer Manager. As …Read More

Advocacy is…

25th October 2017 Clare TarlingNews0

An article about Advocacy by Jen and Ken Dykes

Advocacy is enabling someone to express a thought, feeling, view, choice, decision or a desire.

Use different communications …Read More

Memory Recording Makes a Difference

11th September 2017 Clare TarlingNews1

Dorset Advocacy’s memory recording project enables people with dementia to keep their precious memories forever. Advocate Sonya Threse has been working with dementia sufferer Joyce, …Read More

The Right Stuff: How Do We Make Moral Choices?

20th February 2017 Clare TarlingNews0

Working as a cancer advocates, we witness the communication between patients and their doctors all the time. When that goes well, the outcome is good …Read More

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Pat has been receiving support from Dorset Advocacy for over a year. When her partner Charlie became very ill and was diagnosed with throat cancer, ... Read Full Story

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