ADULT AND CHILDREN SOCIAL CARE

Question 1

RESPONSIBILITY

Answer 1

UPPER TIER COUNCILS
/ unitary

(apart from sheltered housing is lower tier)

Question 2

ROLE LOCAL AUTHORITY

Answer 2

COMMISSION services + ASSESS NEEDS

Question 3

COSTS

Answer 3

Gov cuts put strain on local authorities
2017-18 £17.9 billion

Social Care ‘precept’ in council tax of up to 2%, so councils can raise money for social care

Question 4

MEANS-TESTED

Answer 4

Everyone who requires service is means-tested
means they test to see what they can afford

Individual service users given direct payment and required to manage own budgets for social care

Question 5

LOCAL AUTHORITY MUST PROVIDE

Answer 5

Social workers

Residential accommodation

Question 6

LOCAL AUTHORITY MAY PROVIDE (ADULT)

Answer 6

Home help
hot meals
social clubs
day care
cheap travel
home modifications

Question 7

SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Answer 7

Social workers
accommodation for at risk children
day nurseries
family counselling and support classes
refuge for at risk mothers

Question 8

SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES

Answer 8

social workers
day/special schools
nurseries
day centres
home adaptations
residential accommodation (incl. respite care)

Question 9

PROCESS FOR CHILD

Answer 9

Case conference - starts process where child may be place ‘at risk’
attended by anyone that may be concerned with child

Child protection plan - plans details what professionals will do to protect child, where child should live and who has contact

Court Orders:
Child Assessment Order - person must bring child to be assessed for 7 days
Supervision order - Local authority given power to monitor child at home or elsewhere
Emergency Protection Order - fast track order if child in immediate danger. Child taken to safe place and parent responsibilities given to person who took out order - lasts 8 days can be extended for another 7

Care Order - child taken into care by upper council, preference is to find foster/adoptive family