Community care solicitors
Community care is often referred to as care in the community, social care or the care provided or facilitated by local authority social services departments. As a result, it can be many things.
Community care can be something as simple, but important, as someone keeping an eye on you and helping you with day to day tasks or it can be a full package of day and night-time care services. The purpose of this care to enable you to live as full and as independent a life as possible in the community.
We can help you get the care you need, whether for yourself on for a person you usually care for, to ensure they are able to manage daily tasks and lead as independent lives as possible.
Help we offer includes:
- obtaining an assessment of your community care needs
- residential/nursing care that is right for you
- increasing the provision of community care services for you
- challenging an assessment of your community care needs
- carers rights (including the right to a carer’s assessment)
- entitlement to direct payments, personal budgets or individual budgets
- equality and discrimination
- charging for care services
- funding disputes
- adaptations to your home or the provision of equipment to assist you
- children obtaining care and support services
- the link between community care and healthcare services
- financial disputes
- safeguarding vulnerable adults
- closure of residential care homes or day centres
Our comprehensive, rights based approach ensures that, your problems, difficulties and care needs are recognised by the NHS and/or local authority. This ensures you receive the full package of community care, continuing healthcare, healthcare or mental health after care services that you require.
If a Primary Care Trust or local authority fails to assess your needs or appropriately provide fully costed or funded care services, contact us and we will help you tackle this. We will also help if unnecessary restrictions have been put on your care services with reference to ‘eligibility criteria’
Whether by way of formal complaint, negotiation or argument, Pannone will 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. We will also seek Judicial Review in the Administrative Court if we believe a local authority or public body is acting irrationally or unreasonably and as a result is in breach of public law principles or your human rights. We have expert human rights solicitors who will be on hand to seek compensation on your behalf if you have suffered a breach of your human rights through negligent community care.
Disability rights and human rights solicitors
To arrange a discussion with a disability rights or human 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.
