Community care solicitors
Community care is many things. It is often referred to as care in the community, social care or the care provided or facilitated by local authority social services departments.
Community care can be something as simple, but important, as someone keeping an eye on you, helping you with day to day tasks such as getting dressed/undressed, shopping, cooking, laundry or adaptations to your home.
Or, it can be a full package of day and night-time care services.
The key is ‘care’ or ‘help’ to enable you to live as full and as independent a life as possible in the community.
If you need help, of any kind, day or night, or if the person you usually care for needs help to ensure they are better able to manage daily tasks or lead independent lives and ensure that carers are able to provide the care services they need, we can help you get the care you need.
This can include:
- obtaining an assessment of your community care needs
- challenging an assessment of your community care needs
- increasing the provision of community care services for you
- residential/nursing care that is right for you
- carers rights (including the right to a carer’s assessment)
- children obtaining care and support services
- entitlement to direct payments, personal budgets or individual budgets
- funding disputes
- the link between community care and healthcare services
- adaptations to your home or the provision of equipment to assist you
- financial disputes
- safeguarding vulnerable adults
- charging for care services
- closure of residential care homes or day centres
- equality and discrimination
We have a comprehensive and rights based approach to your problems to ensure that, as a first step, your problems, difficulties and care needs are recognised by the local authority and/or the NHS, ensuring you receive the full package of care services you need, be this community care, continuing healthcare, healthcare or mental health after care services.
We can help you tackle any local authority or Primary Care Trust’s failure to assess your care needs, any failure to provide appropriate and fully costed or funded care services or unnecessary restrictions on care services with reference to what are known as ‘eligibility criteria’.
We can ensure your voice is heard in any dispute with the local authority or any other public body responsible for providing care or public services for you, by way of negotiation or argument, formal complaint or in cases where the local authority or a public body is acting unreasonably, irrationally and thus in breach of public law principles or your human rights, by way of Judicial Review proceedings in the Administrative Court.
Disability rights solicitors
To arrange a discussion with a disability rights solicitor click here or call us on 0800 0384 384. We are available to take your call twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.
