Community Care Law  
 
Contact the Team

Our highly trained office staff are available to assist you at all times:

Wakefield:
Lisa Stocks &
Julie Andrew

Tel: 01924 882000
Fax: 01924 882049
Bradford:
Jan Cunningham

Tel: 01274 720314
Fax: 01274 721206
Emergency Tel:
07715 711183
e-mail:
publiclaw@switalskis.com


If you are unable to attend our offices because of your care needs or due to caring commitments, we can arrange to visit you at your home. Please let us know if you need interpreting or signing services so these can be arranged for you.
Switalski's Community Care Department is a Specialist Quality Mark provider in the field. Community Care Law covers a wide range of issues. Here are some of the legal issues we may be able to help you with:
 
  • Getting appropriate home care services to help a person with disabilities/care needs remain independent
  • Challenging community care assessments
  • Assisting a carer to access services
  • Challenging unfair charging policies for day care or home care provision
  • Challenging threats of closure to residential home
  • Opposing cuts in day care provision
  • Accessing after-care provision on discharge from hospital
 
Community Care Law usually involves challenging the decision of a public body such as a Local Authority or Health Trust, and we use the most appropriate form of challenge in each case. This can mean that we use internal complaints procedures of appeals, or it can mean we make a challenge using the Local Authority or Health Authority Ombudsman. We also use the Public Law challenge of Judicial Review as a remedy. You can find out more about public law challenges on our Public Law pages.  
   
See some examples of community care cases we have dealt with.  
   
Your Legal Team
  Wakefield   Bradford
  Lindsey Rhodes
Katya Menhennet
Rachael Phillips

   Erica Restall
Sarah Laughey
  To find out more about any of the team, click on the names above. A profile will appear in a new window.
 
   
Links
  The following websites could help you to find out more about Community Care Law. Click on the links below - the websites will open in a new window
 

» Communitycare.co.uk

Or, visit the website of your Local Authority
 
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