Michael Mandelstam

Quick Guide to Community Care Practice and the Law (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This short guide cuts through the confusing mass of legislation to provide a concise and jargon-free explanation of current community care practice and the law.

In clear and simple language, it explains the legislation directly relevant to practitioners, including: rules about how people in need get an assessment from local authorities; the assessment of need itself; eligibility for actually getting a service (and the "fair access to care" policy); charging for services; ordinary residence; topping up of care home fees; assessing informal carers; and the rules about asylum seekers. It provides an overview and analysis of high profile issues such as direct payments, personal budgets and the policy of personalisation and National Health Service provision, including the vexed issue of NHS continuing health care. It also highlights the duties placed on local authorities and the NHS, the various tensions underlying community care, and the consequent shortcuts - both lawful and unlawful - that local authorities and the NHS feel obliged to take.

Quick Guide to Community Care Practice and the Law is an essential resource for busy practitioners at all levels as well as managers in both the statutory and voluntary sectors, policy-makers in local authorities and the NHS, advocates, lawyers and social work students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857003737
• Artikelnr.: 38240844

Autorenporträt

Michael Mandelstam provides independent legal training to local authorities, the NHS and voluntary organisations. In the past, he worked at the Disabled Living Foundation, a national voluntary organisation, and for a few years at the Social Services Inspectorate at the Department of Health. He holds postgraduate qualifications in law, information studies and the history of science and medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. 2. How Community Care Law and Practice Works. 3. When
Things Go Wrong. 4. Getting a Community Care Assessment and Getting
Services. 5. Community Care Services: Care Homes. 6. Community Care
Services: Help in People's Own Homes. 7. Informal Carers. 8. Direct
Payments: Giving People Money. 9. Personalisation and Safeguarding. 10.
Asylum and Immigration. 11. Ordinary Residence. 12. Home Adaptations. 13.
National Health Service. 14. Continuing NHS Health Care. 15. Mental
Capacity, Human Rights, Disability Discrimination. 16. Health and Safety at
Work Legislation, and the Law of Negligence. Index.