Community care assesment?

angelvoice222

hey everyone
social workers are comming round 2mos to do a carers assesment on my mum and a community care assesment on me!
dont fully understand what its all about so was wondering...
1. what is it ?
2. what will i poss get from it?
3. what questions are they likely to ask me?

thanks in advance xxxxxxxx

reillyhub

Hi there
A community care assessment is to establish a persons welfare needs that can be provided by a local authority for instance special equipment, residential care and so on,each assessment would be unique to the person being assessed..
A carers assessment is again to establish the needs of the carer to see what can be provided by the local athority like respite care etc.
My advice is sit down for an hour or so with a cuppa and writeany difficulties you have for both take your time mention everything at assessments. good luck

earthmother

Make sure you tell them everything so that they can get the right help for you. Also make sure they actually do the carers assesment with you - don't let them 'do it later'.



I recently spoke to my husbands SW - with his DLA renewal coming up, I wanted to see if she would write something for him. It came up about a carer's assesment, because she 'said' she had done one over a year ago, and yet she has never actually talked to me about my part in everything. It turns out that whilst the truth of the situation is that I give 24/7 care in all aspects, with absolutely no outside support, and am suffering from stress/depression myself, she had actually put that I give minimal care, and for less than 30 hrs a week, and am perfectly fine in myself.

This has impacted on the help we can get, both financially and personally, and would jeopardise my Carers Allowance should they ever do a review.

Needless to say I'm not impressed and am trying to get a proper assesment done - strangely enough though she 'hasn't been in the office' since that conversation - almost 2 months ago.

Mojisola

When my carer's assessment was done, a copy was sent to me to make sure I agreed with everything that had been written down. It doesn't sound as if she did a formal assessment with you.

earthmother

Thanks Mojisola - having never been assessed in the 8 years hubby has been disabled, when she said the other year that she would do one, I assumed it was something they did from their observations - wasn't until this came up that I realised I was supposed to have any input at all. I've definitely never been told I needed to sign off on it, so there's something else she obviously hasn't done.

earthmother

Following on from my posts last month, after three months of chasing, I have finally received a carers assessment form - reading through it, it appears there is quite a bit the SW needs to complete with me - but she just told me to fill in my bits and send it back to her.

Seeing as in the past when I've done this with paperwork she's changed (downgraded) responses without our knowledge, which have resulted in me and DH missing out on things, I'm a little wary of this. Is it normal to do it this way, or should it really be a face-to-face situation?