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Empowerment Matters was set up in 2012 by Jakki Cowley and Sue Lee having worked together managing the National IMCA Support Project at Action for Advocacy from 2009 – 2011 having previously both managed busy and successful IMCA services in Manchester and Cambridge. The IMCA Support Project was funded by the Department of Health for 2 years as part of the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA). During this time Sue and Jakki created a range of guidance on the Act for health and social care professionals and IMCAs. We recognised the continued need for the work we’d done with regards the MCA and therefore launched Empowerment Matters to ensure that up to date guidance provision, information, resources and training opportunities are continued to be devised, updated and available for anyone including advocates, health and social care professionals and family members that are part of MCA decision making. In 2016 Sue took early retirement to pursue wider interests but her

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