Social services and social care legislation

• Social Care
• Mental Health
• Equalities and Rights
• Information and Data
• Health & Safety

Assessment, Eligibility and Care Management

• Legal Framework Summaries
  • 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 Services (FACS) - including FACS related guidance
  • Eligibility to Services for Adults - A Summary
  • 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
• Personal Budgets (57KB - pdf help) (January 2011)
• Care Management
  • Matching Needs and Services Guidance
  • Time Limited Services
  • Review Process - Practice 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 for Care Managers and Brokers
  • Transfer of Responsibility for a Service from one team to another
  • How do I Cost a Care Plan
  • Financial Assessments Procedures Guidance
  • Care Management Financial Guidance
  • Aspects of Charging for Residential and Nursing Care Accommodatio
  • Guidance on Appointeeship, Power of Attorney and Court of Protection Receivership
• CareFirst and Care Management Process Guidance
• Minimum Standards for Assessments and Care Planning
• 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 Needs
• Delayed Discharge, Reluctant Discharge, Application of Choice and Accommodation Directions
  • Delayed Transfers of Care and Reimbursement
• Bandings of Residential Care
• Out of Area Responsibility

Types of services provided by Social Services

• Adaptations and equipment
• Adult Placement Scheme
• Home Care
• Funding Nursing Care
• Residential Care Homes
• Day Care
• Intermediate Care
• Carers support

Equalities, inclusion and partnership

• Devon Compact - Democracy and Community Working in Partnership
• Equalities
• User and Carer Involvement
  • Guidance and Information for Service Providers (41KB - pdf help)
  • Carers in Devon
  • Have Your Say

Organisational processes and services for staff

• Advocacy
• Bandings of Residential Care
• Complaints and Representations Policy - Adults
• Complaints and Representations Policy - Children
• Care First - Client Data System   see intranet link below
• Contracts
• The Devon Way
• Finance
  • Financial Circulars Index
  • Scheme of Delegation
  • ACS Finance Homepage
• Health and Safety/Risk Management for Service Users
• Health and Safety / Risk Management for staff and contracted partners
• Information and Data Sharing and Protection See intranet link below
• Learning and Development   See intranet link below
• Learning Disability Partnership Security-Policy
• Human Resources   See intranet link below
• Policy Development
• Projects Prompt List
• Information Sharing Protocol for Devon Health and Social Care Organisations
• Information Sharing Agreement for Continuing Health Care
• Information Sharing Protocol for the Devon Learning Disability Partnership
• Communicating information
• Management Information Unit See intranet link below
• Email Guidance V6
• FAX Policy
• Supervision Policy
• Record Handling, Management and Retention   See intranet link below
• Research Governance
• Lettings
  • Terms of Policy Statement
  • Terms of Contract
    • Health, Safety and Condition of Premises
    • Licences and General Points
    • Hire of Social Services Premises
• Recording Policy

Children's Services

• Children/Young People with Special Needs Case Transfer Protocol

previously listed policies in this section can now be found at

http://staff.devon.gov.uk/cyps/cypsstaffguidance/cypschildrenservices.htm

Sensory Disability

• Devon Sensory Team

Mental health services

• Approved Social Worker
  • Care Programme Approach (79KB - pdf help)
  • Section 117 (54KB - pdf help)
• Devon Partnership NHS Trust Publications Library
• Transitions and Client categories
• User and Carer Involvement

Learning disability services

• In Control
• Total Communication
• Transitions and Client categories
• User and Carer Involvement

All documents with a    can now be found at http://staff.devon.gov.uk/aspolicies/aspoliciesprocedures.htm