Quick Guide to Community Care Practice and the Law (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Quick Guides Social & Health Care Law & Practice
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	April 2010
Authors:	Michael Mandelstam
Dimensions:	228 x 150 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-84905-083-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > Social security & welfare law Promotions
LSN:	1-84905-083-X
Barcode:	9781849050838

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