Overview
General Responsibilities under the Care Act 2014
First Contact and Identifying Needs
Charging and Financial Assessment
Delivering Person Centred Care and Support
Person Centred Care and Support
- 5.1.1 Personalisation
- 5.1.2 Personal Budgets
- 5.1.3 Direct Payments Policy (Children’s and Adults)
- 5.1.4 Care and Support Planning
- 5.1.5 Review of Care and Support Plans
- 5.1.6 Assessing and Managing Risk
- 5.1.7 Independent Care Act Advocacy
- 5.1.8 Adult Social Care Transition Policy
- 5.1.9 Technology Enabled Care (TEC)
- 5.1.10 End of Life Care
- 5.1.11 Protecting Property of Adults being Cared for away from Home, including Pets
Carers
See also Lancashire County Council Carers Strategy
- 5.2.1 Carer’s Assessments
- 5.2.2 Eligibility Criteria for Carers and Carers’ Budgets
- 5.2.3 Adult Short Breaks
Local Services and Teams
Safeguarding
Mental Capacity and Mental Health
- 7.1 Mental Capacity
- 7.2 Best Interests
- 7.3 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- 7.4 Mental Health Act 1983
- 7.5 Defining Mental Disorder
- 7.6 Relationship between the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Mental Health Act 1983
- 7.7 Displacement of the Nearest Relative Section 29 Mental Health 1983 (incorporating Corporate Nearest Relative Procedures)
- 7.8 Section 135 Mental Health Act Policy
- 7.9 Independent Mental Capacity and Mental Health Advocacy
- 7.10 Joint Policy for the Management of Section 117 Aftercare, Reviews and Discharge
- 7.11 Advance Care Planning

