Skip to content

Lancashire Adult Social Care Policy Portal

Using this Portal
Register with Us
CQC
Contents
Resources
Local Contacts

This field lets you search this website

This drop-down lets you change the stylesheet

Back to Policy Portal

Adult Social Care Policies and Procedures

General Responsibilities under the Care Act 2014

First Contact and Identifying Needs

Charging and Financial Assessment

Delivering Person Centred Care and Support

Mental Capacity and Mental Health

Integration and Partnership Working

Moving between Areas: Inter-Local Authority and Cross Border Issues

National Guidance

Overview

Care Act 2014
Involving People who use our Services / Co-production
Equality, Diversity and Human Rights
Equality Statement
Providing Culturally Appropriate Care
Kindness, Respect and Compassion
Complaints
Data Protection

General Responsibilities under the Care Act 2014

1.1 Wellbeing Principle
1.2 Preventing, Reducing or Delaying Needs
1.3 Information and Advice
1.4 Market Shaping and Commissioning of Adult Care and Support
1.5 Managing Provider Failure

First Contact and Identifying Needs

2.1 Waiting Well
2.2 Assessment of Needs
2.3 Eligibility
2.4 Interpreting, Signing and Communication Needs

Charging and Financial Assessment

3.1 Financial Information and Advice
3.2 Charging and Financial Assessment – Principles
3.3 Non-Residential Care Charging Policy
3.4 Residential Care Charging Policy
3.5 Self-funders
3.6 Financial Factsheets

See also Direct Payments

Delivering Person Centred Care and Support

Person Centred Care and Support

4.1.1 Personalisation
4.1.2 Personal Budgets
4.1.3 Direct Payments Policy (Children’s and Adults)
4.1.4 Care and Support Planning
4.1.5 Review of Care and Support Plans
4.1.6 Assessing and Managing Risk
4.1.7 Independent Care Act Advocacy
4.1.8 Adult Social Care Transition Policy
4.1.9 Technology Enabled Care
4.1.10 End of Life Care
4.1.11 Protecting Property of Adults being Cared for away from Home, including Pets

Carers

See also Lancashire County Council Carers Strategy

4.2.1 Carer’s Assessments
4.2.2 Eligibility Criteria for Carers and Carers’ Budgets
4.2.3 Adult Short Breaks

Local Services and Teams

4.3.1 Occupational Therapy (including Adaptations and Equipment)
4.3.2 Discharge of People from Hospital with Care and Support Needs (excluding those discharged from mental health hospitals)
4.3.3 Choice of Accommodation

Safeguarding

5.1 Adult Safeguarding Policy
5.2 Information Sharing, Record Keeping and Confidentiality
5.3 Working with Adults Affected by Child Sexual Exploitation and Organised Sexual Abuse
5.4 Self-Neglect and Hoarding
5.5 Ill Treatment and Wilful (Deliberate) Neglect
5.6 Domestic Abuse
5.7 Modern Slavery

Mental Capacity and Mental Health

6.1 Mental Capacity
6.2 Best Interests
6.3 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
6.4 Mental Health Act 1983
6.5 Defining Mental Disorder
6.6 Relationship between the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Mental Health Act 1983
6.7 Displacement of the Nearest Relative Section 29 Mental Health 1983 (incorporating Corporate Nearest Relative Procedures)
6.8 Section 135 Mental Health Act Policy
6.9 Independent Mental Capacity and Mental Health Advocacy
6.10 Joint Policy for the Management of Section 117 Aftercare, Reviews and Discharge
6.11 Advance Care Planning

Integration and Partnership Working

7.1 Integration, Cooperation and Partnerships
7.2 Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategies
7.3 Delegation of Local Authority Functions
7.4 Prisons, Approved Premises and Bail Accommodation
7.5 Continuing Healthcare (NHS)

Moving between Areas: Inter-Local Authority and Cross Border Issues

8.1 Ordinary Residence
8.2 Continuity of Care
8.3 Cross Border Placements

National Guidance

9.1 Access to Records
9.2 Sight and other Disability Registers
9.3 Measuring Outcomes in Adult Social Care
9.4 Disclosure and Barring
9.5 Whistleblowing
9.6 Workplace Harassment and Violence to Staff
9.7 Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Work

Policy Partners Project

© 2014-26 Policy Partners Project
Accessibility Statement | Terms / Privacy

Will you allow non-essential cookies? We use them to collect anonymous visitor statistics.