Full of Life’s Carer's Advocacy Service supports parent carers of adults with a learning disability. The service ensures that parent carers know their rights and the rights of the person they care for.
Parents are empowered and supported to continue their life long role as a parent carer. The service provides independent practical support, advice and information on the following:
Issues relating to Social Services, such as Carer’s Assessments, Needs Assessments and Access to Services
Support with Transtion from Children to Adult Services
Education Service (16 plus)
General information and advice relating to benefits and housing
Form filling (Benefits, grants and applications)
Support attending meetings/reviews
Complaints (support/advice)
Liaising with services and professionals to access the best support for families.
Provides a quarterly newsletter for parent carers
The Carer's Advocacy Service also works to ensure that parent carers and their families are at the heart of service development.
The carers advocacy service is for parent carers of disabled young people and adults over the age of 14 living in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
How do you access this service?
Parents can self-refer, or be referred by a relevant professional at any time by contacting Full of Life.
How do we ensure the quality of this service?
All of Full of Life’s services are quality assured by:
Quarterly monitoring
Management committee meetings with professionals from education, health and social care in attendance
Annual reports/reviews; and
Parent carer service evaluations via an online survey
Parents are also given the opportunity to share their views during the Parent Forums.
The young people and staff are also given regular opportunities to give feedback on Full of Life’s Services for young people. All of this information is used to shape and develop services.
We want our Local Offer to be as helpful and easy-to-use as possible. All feedback from parents, professionals and young people with SEND is invaluable and we continuously act on suggestions to improve the website. Could you help us by completing our short survey about your recent experience?
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