Quick Guide to Community Care Practice and the Law

Mandelstam, Michael

ISBN 10: 184905083X / ISBN 13: 9781849050838

Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2010

About this Item

1st edition in soft cover format, 8vo, 192pp, card covers; mild creasing to lower corner o/w VG+ Copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quick Guide to Community Care Practice and the Law
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184905083X
• ISBN 13: 9781849050838
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Health and Medicine
  • Social Sciences
  • Textbooks, Set Books and Tutors

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Michael Mandelstam has provided independent legal training for over 20 years. Prior to this he worked at the Department of Health and, before that, at the Disabled Living Foundation. He has written many legal books on social care and health care matters. He holds postgraduate qualifications in law, information studies and the history of science and medicine.