Always Heard is the only national service that provides the No Child Turned Away advocacy guarantee. Our team has worked incredibly hard to maintain this guarantee throughout 2022 by:
- Ensuring every young person who contacts us looking for advocacy gets an advocate. We do this by supporting young people to access their local advocacy service. If young people’s local service cannot help we give them an Always Heard advocate so they get the support they need.
- Bringing about wider change to the systemic barriers to access to advocacy.
- Sharing the voice and experience of young people who face barriers to advocacy with their local authorities.
- Supporting and challenge local authorities to put in place the advocacy service their young people are entitled to.
- Sharing information about barriers to advocacy with the Department for Education, Ofsted and the Children’s Commissioner to help them address these.