Devon County Council

   What do we aim to do?..

• Legal Framework Summaries
  • Assessment and Eligibility (Legal Context)
  • Appointeeship
  • Power of Attorney
  • Court of Protection Receivership Orders
  • Community Care Legal Duties
• Adult Protection
  • Adult Protection Data Monitoring Forms - Guidance-Notes
• Recording Policy
• Recording Ethnic Origin of Users and Carers
• Guidance on people from abroad
• Support for People who are not United Kingdom Citizens
• Single Assessment Process (SAP)
• Single Assessment Process - Information aimed at professionals
• Carer contact and assessment practice guidance (60KB - pdf help)
• Fair Access to Care Policy  Adults - including FACS related guidance
  • National and Legal Context
  • Local Policy
  • Procedural Guidance
  • Practice Guidance
  • Background Papers (Mainly for Professionals)
  • Transport Guidance - Eligibility of Needs
• Upper Cost Parameters for Care Packages
• Self-Funding Care Home Residents
• Continuing NHS Health Care
• Intermediate Care Guidance
• Medicines Support Service - Joint Agency
• Invasive Procedures - Joint Health & Social Care Policy
• Mental Capacity Act and Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy
• Charging Policy for Non-Residential Care Services (29KB - pdf help) (May 2011)
• Direct Payments for Adults Policy - Information and guidance for people and practitioners (289KB - pdf help)
• Personal Budgets (57KB - pdf help) (January 2011
• Care Management
  • Matching Needs and Services Guidance
  • Time  Limited Services
  • Review Process Guidance
  • Forms Guidance
    • Adult Protection Data Monitoring Forms - Guidance Notes
    • Community Care Assessment Process Form SS1(P)
    • Review Process Form - SS3(P)
    • How to Record a Specialist Assessment for a Personally Care Managed Case on SS3(P)
    • Recording Sensory Assessment Work for Existing Care Managed Cases on SS3(P)
    • Recording Service Users Agreement to Care Plans
    • Monitoring and/or Assessment Summary Form SS6
  • Contracting Services for Individuals - Guidance  - Guidance to Care Managers and Brokers
  • Transfer of Responsibility for a Service from one team to another
  • How do I cost a Care Plan
  • Care Management Financial Guidance
  • Aspects of Charging for Residential and Nursing Care Accommodation
  • Guidance on Appointeeship, Power of Attorney and Court of Protection Receivership
• Minimum Standards for Assessments and Care Plans
• Adaptations Assessment and Housing Solutions Advice
• Health and Safety / Risk Management for service users
  • Physical Intervention Policy
    • Part 1 - Policy on the Use of Physical Interventions
    • Part 2 - Using Physical Interventions
    • Part 3 - Delivery and Review
    • Part 4 - Appendices
  • Physical Intervention Training and Competence. Procedures Guidelines
• Case Transfers, Transitions and Client categories
  • Children/Young People with Special Needs: Case Transfer Protocol
  • Client Categories and Case Transfers Policy and Protocol
  • Devon Transitions Protocol for Young People with Special Need
• Delayed Discharge, Reluctant Discharge, Application of Choice and Accommodation Directions
  • Delayed Transfers of Care and Reimbursement
• Support for People who are not UK Citizens
• Bandings of Residential Care
• Out of Area Responsibility

The following document can now be found on DCC The Source staff website at:

http://staff.devon.gov.uk/aspolicies/aspoliciesprocedures.htm

CareFirst  Process Guidance

++ This policy is under review. For more information, please contact Sue White, Carers Services Development Officer  email: susan.white@devon.gov.uk