How to identify and assess parents with learning disabilities. Plus tips on how to engage and communicate with them, as well as supporting them to learn new skills.
Explains the purpose of a financial assessment under the Care Act, when one should be completed, and what should be taken into account or disregarded.
This guide sets out how strengths-based practice is embodied in English social care legislation through the Care Act 2014, specifically through the principle of wellbeing, set out in section 1 of the Care Act, and also through the legislation's other measures on prevention, assessment, determining eligibility, and the making and reviewing of care and support plans.
Tips on using strengths-based practice to cope with difficult conversations that can arise during care assessments.
Ideas to help you take a strengths-based approach to Care Act assessments, with suggested questions and strategies for engagement.
How loneliness can affect people across their life course, and what social workers can do to support lonely and isolated people.