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A MAP OF INDEPENDENT ADVOCACY ACROSS SCOTLAND
NOTES ON FUNDING FIGURES
Figures are based on information supplied to us by advocacy organisations and commissioners.
For some organisations there was either insufficient information supplied, or else funding for 2003/2004 had not yet been confirmed at the time of writing this map. We have, where appropriate, included funding which has been confirmed but has not yet been allocated to advocacy providers. This is reflected under the client groups and types of advocacy for which the funds have been committed.
The breakdown of funding for advocacy per client group and per advocacy type are as accurate as we could achieve, given the information supplied. We have used the term 'generic' to describe the advocacy provided by an agency to more than one major client group. In practice, however, we know that such agencies tend to prioritise referrals for people with mental health problems, learning disabilities, acquired brain injuries, and/or frail older people. Therefore in some areas, where the preference is to commission generic advocacy, these major client groups will be covered under this heading, with funding being split among them all (and other vulnerable individuals). The breakdown of funds will vary from organisation to organisation, according to local needs.
Often agencies listed in the map said that they provided a number of different models, however there was usually no breakdown of funding for specific areas of advocacy in their budgets. Therefore, we have termed all individual advocacy (provided by volunteer or paid advocates) simply as 'individual'. Where an advocacy agency provides citizen advocacy as its sole or main function, we have listed the funding separately under the heading 'citizen'; and similarly, for 'collective' advocacy. Although we are aware that many advocacy agencies do provide a combination of these models, it was, in the majority of instances not possible to decipher what proportion of their budget was spent on each. Therefore, we have listed them under the major advocacy type for each organisation. Exceptionally, we have been able to estimate the proportion of funding for different models of advocacy within a single agency, by analysing the amounts of funding invested by a particular source.
We would like to stress that, even where information was not available, we have made extensive efforts to follow up commissioners and advocacy organisations for the information cited in this map.
All the breakdown of funds at the end of each chapter and in appendices I - X represent local statutory contributions. However, contributions from the Scottish Executive, Social Inclusion Partnerships, Communities Scotland, Unemployed Voluntary Action Fund (UVAF), and Scottish Enterprise are also listed in appendices I and II, as are charitable sources.
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