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What is a community care assessment?

A Community Care Assessment will be an informal meeting with a Social Worker or Community Care Worker. You can choose where the meeting is held and who attends. You may bring someone to support you, a friend or relative for example.

What happens during my assessment?

The social worker will ask you some questions about your health, your home, your carers and the existing support that you have. For example, the kind of tasks you need help with and how often, who helps you at the moment and how they help you.

They will want to work out what you are managing well and what you are finding difficult. They will talk to you about what services and support may be beneficial to you and your carers.

This could include:

  • your ability to make and carry out choices
  • your health and safety
  • your carer's health and safety
  • your ability to manage personal and daily routines, such as bathing, dressing, cooking or taking your medication
  • your opportunities to be involved in family life and getting out into the community

If you give your permission, they will also talk to other people who know you well, such as family members, friends or professionals, like your doctor.

What is the aim of the assessment?

The aim of the assessment is to find you just the right support to ensure you are as independent as possible. This can be as simple as helping you organise an extra carer so that your main carer can reduce the help they give you. It can also mean helping you get support from other professionals, occupational therapists for example, to ensure that you have the right equipment at home to do as much for yourself as you safely can.

The social worker may also ask you do do some things to help, to find out some information about the benefits you receive, or could be entitled to, for example.

The assessment is free. There may be charges for any services that we provide. We will always explain these to  you before you agree to use a service.

When you and the social worker have agreed on what is the best way to support you, they will go through the information with you to check everything is correct and you are happy with what has been agreed. The last part of the assessment is a chance for you to ask any questions and check anything you do not understand. The information you have given will be shared with other key professionals to organise the agreed support.

Follow this link to find out what happens after your community care assessment.

Contact details

Physical and Sensory Impairment Service
Faseman House
Faseman Avenue
Tile Hill
Coventry
CV4 9RB
Tel: 024 7678 5212
Fax: 024 7647 4883