Evolving from the project is the creation of the new Sense Advocacy Development Network .
Advocacy is important and much needed in the lives of deafblind and multiply disabled people.
It involves making choices, exercising rights, ensuring a good quality of life, being involved in planning services, and having access to the local community. Essentially, advocacy is about empowerment, involvement and inclusion. The Sense Advocacy Project was a three year pilot project which set out to learn. We discovered how to set up partnerships and identified the issues involved in doing so. Advocacy Learning Pack and the setting up of the Sense Advocacy Development Network.