Contact us

• Address

  Barton Community Centre
  Underhill Circus
  Barton
  Oxford
  Oxfordshire
  OX3 9LS

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• Phone

  0300 200 0082

  Online

  Website

  Email

About

The Oxfordshire Advoacy Hub provides advocacy support through statuory and community advocacy. POhWER provides Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) including Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and Relevant Person’s Paid Representative Service (RPPR)

Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) including an IMHA Prisoners service supporting prisoners with issues around their mental health and associated care and treatment within HMP Bullingdon and HMP Huntercombe.

Care Act Advocacy

NHS Complaints Advocacy

Community Advocacy

Opening times

Our advocacy services run Monday-Friday 09:00-17:00. Our call centre HelpHub is open Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm (excluding bank holidays)

Catchment area

Oxfordshire

Target group

Mental Health / Mental Capacity / NHS complaints / Care Act (not carers assessments) / Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards / Community Advocacy

Further information

Referrals for Children's Advocacy can be made to NYAS online (for professionals) or by calling 0808 808 1001 (for Children and Young people).

Referral method

Call to HelpHub or email referral form found on the website

This information was supplied by Serco Global Services on 1 April 2025.