Barking and Dagenham Advocacy
In Barking and Dagenham we provide:
- Independent NHS Complaints Advocacy: NHS complaints advocates support you to complain about the treatment or care that you, a friend or a family member have received from an NHS service. This support is available at all stages of the complaints process. (Go to page or See the NHS Complaints Leaflet)
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Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA): People may be detained or sectioned in hospital under the Mental Health Act or have their liberty restricted by Community Treatment Orders. Our Advocates help them to understand their rights and communicate their wishes. (Go to page)
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Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA): People who have a mental illness, dementia, or an injury to the brain can be declared by a medical professional as lacking the capacity to make their own decisions. IMCAs ensure that their rights are upheld and that any decision made is in the person’s best interests. (Go to page or see the IMCA Service Leaflet)
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Care and Support Advocacy (Care Act): Under the Care Act (2014), local authorities must ensure that a person is fully involved when their social care and support needs are being reviewed. Certain people are entitled to an independent advocate to help them to be as involved as possible. (Go to page)
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Relevant Person’s Representative Advocacy (RPR): A Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard (DoLS) is designed to protect people who are being deprived of their liberty in a hospital or care home. People in this situation have access to a Relevant Person’s Representative to uphold their best interests. (Go to page or see the RPR Service Leaflet) ijn
To make a referral for a Barking and Dagenham Resident, please download the Barking and Dagenham Advocacy Referral Form
Call us: 020 7358 7007 (9am to 5pm Monday to Friday)
Email us: chadvocacy@ch1889.org.
Cambridge House News
Does a Prohibition Order end a tenant’s right to occupy? Ben Reeve-Lewis investigates.
On Wednesday, a couple of conundrums landed on the desk of the 7 people that constitute the Safer Renting posse.
Both concerned cases where our partner council EHOs had served prohibition orders on properties, with an effective date two weeks away but where curiously the occupants didn’t want to move out, despite the dreadful conditions.
Monthly Enforcement Roundup – January 2020
To counter complaints voiced in landlord press that local authorities are failing to enforce against rogue landlords and agents, Safer Renting brings you a monthly roundup of the real work being done, stories which are often not reported on more widely than the local papers. We welcome any stories of yours that we missed.
Why the disparity between civil and criminal awards for harassment and illegal eviction?
The Harassment and illegal eviction are criminal offences under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977. Legal action is brought by the council and the tenant becomes a witness in the local authority prosecution. At the same time, they are also civil offences, known as ‘Breach of Covenant for Quiet Enjoyment” and a renter can take their own action as well as the council prosecution, so the offending landlord or agent can receive a criminal record and be fined and be ordered to pay damages to the tenant in a civil claim. Civil claims are generally heard much faster than criminal ones but there are two main barriers to renters taking their own action.