Your location: Community Care and Housing
Applicable to: England
Course is available in: London
An outline of the legal framework for community care provisions, and knowledge of local authority duties, powers and responsibilities in the assessment and provision of community care needs in a housing context.
Course contains
- Powers and duties of local authorities under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 and allied legislation
- Effects of recent case law on powers and duties, especially in the housing field
- Powers to charge for services
- Challenges to assessments and to the provision of services
- Current unresolved issues in community care
- Relationship between community care and other housing legislation
Suitable for
Advisers who give housing advice and support to vulnerable people, especially those who are elderly, have mental health issues, learning disabilities, or are physically disabled. A basic working knowledge of homelessness legislation is useful but not essential.
Run this course in-house
All of our courses can also be run in-house, at your office or a venue of your choice. For details please call Amanda on 0844 515 1161 or email inhousetraining@shelter.org.uk