Getting Community Care advice
The Law Centre provides specialist services in Community Care and Human Rights law. Community Care is a complex area of law. However, at heart it is about how local authorities and other statutory agencies meet the needs of people who are disabled or ill, older people and children in need. We help people with physical disabilities and illnesses, mental health problems and learning difficulties.
The Community Care team acts on behalf of both carers and service users. We advise on the Community Care assessment process and subsequent service provision and last year we helped several hundred people obtain assessments, challenge assessments or take steps to ensure that appropriate services or facilities were provided. We also helped people with hospital discharge and post discharge care arrangements and continuing health care needs, both at home and in residential accommodation.
The Human Rights Act is a wide ranging and often misunderstood area of law. We seek to apply the Act in a practical manner, with a view to securing real improvements in people’s day to day lives. Human Rights are about how public bodies protect our basic freedoms, including the right to be safe and protected from harm, the right to be treated fairly and with dignity and the right to autonomy and control over your own life and interactions with society.
We specialise in advocacy and representation and, where necessary, we can take judicial review and other court proceedings. If you think that you will need an appointment or just want to discuss a problem call the advice line. If you need an interpreter please let us know so that we can arrange for one to be present at any interview.
Please contact Ellen Williamson on 02476253176 who will be pleased to make an appointment for you.
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