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Jointly funded care package
- Author:
- EVERINGTON Shanta
- Journal article citation:
- Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, 68, Spring 2010, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- National Centre for Disabled Parents
Charlotte Foulkes, a single parent with arthritis living in London, talks about her experience of social services needs assessments from both adult, and children and families teams. As a disabled parent with a one-year old daughter she has been assessed by both these teams but with mixed results. She describes the consultation process, the delays, the stress, manner and accuracy of some assessments and the way in which she was bounced between services. After being turned down for support by adult services, she contacted Disabled Parents Network and complained. Eventually, the adult team got the children and families team involved which provided a much better experience of assessment with the outcome of a jointly funded direct payment package. Charlotte’s advice to other disabled parents seeking support from social services is not to be afraid of making a complaint; in her case she believes it was the only way that things moved forward.