Solihull Action through Advocacy - Changing Lives of People With Learning Disabilities

About Us

Solihull Action through Advocacy is a charity consisting of staff and volunteers who work to improve the quality of life for people with learning disabilities living in Solihull. Citizen Advocacy Solihull is our registered charity name.

Our Aims Include:

Listening to the views of adults with learning disabilities.

Supporting adults with learning disabilities to take more control over their own lives, with greater opportunity and choice.

Representing the interests of people with learning disabilities in discussion and consultation with service providers and exercise influence in service provision and policy making.

Enabling individuals to speak up for themselves wherever possible.

Promoting positive change so that people with learning disabilities are accepted and valued members of their local community.

We aim to provide a lifeline for people who are vulnerable and, at risk of exclusion from society because of a learning disability.

Our services include:

Supporting user involvement at the Learning Disability Partnership Board.

Helping clients to understand their rights and make informed choices.

Holding monthly coffee mornings.

Facilitating consultation meetings.

Promoting views on how adults with a learning disability would like to see their services develop.

Supporting clients to make their own choices and decisions.

Facilitating tenants groups.

Listening to our clients’ views.

Working with those we support to help them get what they need.

Positive About Employing Disabled People

Solihull Action through Advocacy is Positive about employing disabled people. We display the “Two Ticks” symbol to confirm that Jobcentre Plus recognises our positive commitments regarding the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled people.

The commitments we have made are:

to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a job vacancy and to consider them on their abilities

to ensure there is a mechanism in place to discuss, at any time but at least once a year, with disabled employees, what both parties can do to make sure disabled employees can develop and use their abilities

to make every effort when employees become disabled to make sure they stay in employment

to take action to ensure that all employees develop the appropriate level of disability awareness needed to make sure these commitments work

to review these commitments each year and assess what has been achieved, plan ways to improve on them and let employees and Jobcentre Plus know about progress and future plans

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