Community Care in Islington, North London

We can offer prompt, friendly yet professional advice and assistance required to resolve any Community Care issues you may encounter.

We offer legal expertise in Community Care

  Social services or healthcare provider delays or refusing an assessment

Children social services – we can advise and assist on a wide range of matters including:

· Requesting s.17 Children Act assessments in relation to duties owed towards children and their families

· Securing accommodation for children in need under s.20 of the Children Act.

· Challenging social services’ assessments by bringing a judicial review claim, where necessary.

· Securing relevant support and suitable accommodation for care leavers

· Helping families without recourse to public funds to access support and housing

Adult social services – we can advise and assist you with various matters including::

· Challenging Care Act assessments

· Requesting urgent interim accommodation pending assessment

· Dealing with disputes relating to level and type of care required

· Securing adaptations to your home

· Securing support with housing and welfare for people in the UK who have no recourse to public funds

· Care Home and nursing home assessments or placements

· Challenging incorrect or unfair care charges or other funding issues

· Assisting migrants who are being denied access to NHS healthcare or wrongly charged.

· Provide assistance in relation to decisions regarding NHS Continuing Healthcare.

· Inadequate assessments of need, resulting in a lack of access to required care and/or accommodation

· Disputes surrounding levels or type of service required for individuals

· Services incorrectly removed from an individual or a community

· Inappropriate, incorrect, or unfair charges for necessary services

· Refusals or delays to necessary adaptions to the home

· Disputes regarding self-directed support – namely refusal of, or insufficient provision of, direct payments or personal budgets

· The rejection of required care packages by panels

· Disputed assessments

· Implementation

· Health Service provision

· Hospital Discharge

· Closure/ reorganisation (day centres, care homes, transport services)

· Service provision and eligibility criteria

· Carers rights and needs

· Services for armed forces personnel

· Judicial Review / Human Rights Act issues.
Legal aid available Contact our legal team
Community Care solicitors in the North London, contact the team at VLS Solicitors, Tottenham, close to East London.
020 8808 7999