Community Care & Social Services
We provide advice and assistance to both children and adults who are in need of social services.
To find out more about how we can assist you and how much it will cost you, please contact us.
Adult Social Services/NHS Services
When can an adult approach Social Services?
- Adult in need of services by reason of his age, illness, disability or other circumstance
- Failure to carry out community care assessments
- Failure to provide services or adequate services following assessments
- Charging disputes
- Withdrawal and reduction of community care services
- Provision of services to people leaving hospital
- Adult from abroad who are homeless and have health problems
- Problems arising out of direct payments
- Judicial Review
When is a person entitled to services from the NHS?
- Continuing healthcare assessments
- NHS' duty/power to provide services
- Clinical Commissioning Groups' power to commission services
- Judicial Review
Children Social Services
Social Services have a duty to safeguard and promote the health and development of a child in need in its area by providing a range and level of services to a child.
- When is a child deemed to be a child in need
- Duties and powers of Social Services
- Services available to children in need
- Services available to disabled children
- Services to former relevant children
- Unaccompanied children from abroad
- Families from abroad who are homeless and destitute
- Failure to carry out assessments/reassessments
- Decision of social services to terminate support to families from abroad
- Judicial Review