City of Edinburgh Adult Services

Who We Can Help

We offer individual, instructed, non-instructed, and collective* advocacy for adults (16+) with:

• Learning disabilities
• Autism
• Dementia
• Physical disabilities
• Sensory impairment
• Older people, aged 65 or over who have no one else to support them.

* Please Note: Collective advocacy for physical disabilities, sensory impairment, dementia, and older people are currently suspended.

What We Can Help With

We can help you if you are:

• Subject to detention under the Mental Health Act.
• Undergoing process of a welfare/financial guardianship application under the Adults with Incapacity Act.
• Subject to Adult Support & Protection measures.
• A parent with a child on the Child Protection Register or your child is being removed from your care.

* Please Note: All other advocacy requests are currently suspended.