Assessing Social Care Needs (England and Wales) – Part 1
A talk on how local authorities assess the social care needs of disabled children and adults.
This web page provides information and support to parents as part of the LEaP project in video format.
This web page provides information and support to parents as part of the LEaP project in video format.
Professor Luke Clements leads our Legal Entitlement and Problem-Solving (LEaP) Project at The School of Law, Leeds, which provides support to families who are having problems accessing health, social care or other services. Some of Luke’s workshops, talks and webinars have been recorded and are collected here for easy reference. Luke’s talks refer to the law but are mostly accessible by parent carers. Videos refer to the law in England unless otherwise stated. Luke has more resources available on his website www.lukeclements.co.uk.
A talk on how local authorities assess the social care needs of disabled children and adults.
Luke considers the legal duties that children’s services in England are under when they are asked to assess the support needs of disabled children with autism and how research has uncovered widespread unlawful policies.
This talk – divided into seven separate sections – explains the process by which children’s services in England should assess the support needs of disabled children and their families.
How eligible identified needs are translated in services in the community, for example help from a care assistant, adaptations to the home, support to participate in community activities or direct payments.
The rights of carers under the social care legislation in Wales (Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, including parent carers and young carers.
A workshop centred around the Care Act 2014 and the Children and Families Act 2014.
A workshop centred around the Care Act 2014 and the Children and Families Act 2014.
Luke discusses the need for a change in practice that could transform the experiences of disabled children and their families when interacting with English children’s services departments.
Luke discusses diverting families to generic ‘children in need’ (CiN) assessors, offering only short-term support responses that locate the problem in the parent and not in the special need for support that arise due to the child’s additional needs.
Luke discusses ‘How to get a worthwhile carers assessment, that provides support for the parent carer’ – Challenging the idea that local authorities have no duty to provide support following from a parent carer’s assessment.
Luke discusses the law and problems accessing adaptations to the home, funded through disabled facilities grantsfor disabled children.
Luke explains the research report ‘Institutionalising Parent Carer Blame’.
An overview of mental capacity and decision making law in relation to young people (over 16) and adults
The responsibilities of the NHS for Continuing Health Care funding, which is when a person’s health and social care provision are funded entirely by the NHS. This talk covers adults, but the framework for children is somewhat similar.
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