Rules and Standards—The Second Book of Speaking Up : a Plain Text Guide to Advocacy

This second book in a four-volume training set gives people with disabilities and their advocacy partners backgrounds in the standard and accepted ethical practices of advocacy. Building from the information about types of disability advocacy in the first book, his covers the reasons why proper advocacy considers rules and standards, acceptable practices in confidentiality, duty of care and risk assessment and positive risk management. It concentrates on complex or delicate situations in which a person practicing self-advocacy or an advocate partner is faced with issues of disclosure (for example, when revealing a need may result in harm to the person with the need) or when making an issue public may result in more harm than good, whether short-term or long-term. As in the first book, the very simple language may not suit all people with disabilities but the concepts are accessible and applicable. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

John Tufail and Kate Lyon are directors of People's Advocacy Network in Wellington, New Zealand. John Tufail has over 30 years' experience working in the disability sector, specialising in high communication needs. Since the 1980s, he has been increasingly involved in developing advocacy services. John has been lead investigator on a number of research projects into advocacy provision, both in the UK and internationally, and was central to the development of the UK's first university advocacy course at the University of East London. Kate Lyon is a self-employed graphic designer and web-page designer and the winner of four industry awards. She runs her own learning and design company, Merlin Design.