V. Calcaterra

The article is the results of a qualitative research and describes how advocacy for children and young people is manage in UK. An advocacy service for children and young people needs to be independent, to guarantee this feature is important reflect about stability of the services and the way to funding them. In UK advocacy is a duty for Local Authority when children and young people are in some situations, in Italy there is not a similar duty. The aim of the article is to reflect about the importance of advocacy for children in child protection system, to understand what other Countries have done and to learn from this in order to develop these services also in the Italian system of child protection.