Community Care
About community care
We know just how much your life can change when you have been involved in an accident or been diagnosed with an illness. You may need care and support to enable you to cope better with difficulties in your day to day life and need a good deal more help than you ever did before.
You may need adaptations to your home or equipment at home, such as an accessible shower, a stair lift, a ramp or grab rails, which will make day to day tasks easier to deal with.
Your local authority social services department have a legal duty to assess your need for care and support services, including adaptations to your home and the provision of equipment, if you may need such help.
Social services also have a legal duty to provide whatever care and support, including adaptations and equipment, to enable you to deal with day to day difficulties, such as personal care and mobility problems.
Social services also have a legal duty to assess a carer’s needs if, for example, they are providing a high level of care for you.
How can we help you?
As well as specialists in serious injury and illnesses we also have specialists in disability rights and community care and we can tackle all aspects of your legal problems.
Our specialist Disability Rights and Public Law team can provide you with expert advice on getting the care and support you need to live as independent a life as possible.
Any failure to properly assess and or provide services for someone who needs care and support services would be unlawful and we can help you challenge social services to ensure they address your problems, your needs and that they provide you with much care and services as necessary.
We have the expertise and experience in pursuing legal proceedings against social services to ensure they provide you with the services you need when you need them most; whether this be by way of argument, negotiation, formal complaint or by way of Judicial Review proceedings in the Administrative Court.
Contact us
If you think you have a community care or disability rights problem of any kind we are more than happy to help you.
Call us on 0800 0384 384 for a free consultation with an experienced member of our Disability Rights and Public Law Team who will discuss your situation and let you know if you have a claim and how we can help you.