Legal Advice for Community Care.
Our Community Care Team have expert knowledge on all aspects of Community Care Law, including funding for elderly or disability care.
Navigating changes can be challenging and distressing.
We uncomplicate the legal process.
We work proactively with you to ensure that you receive tailored, comprehensive and sympathetic advice so that you or your relative understand the care received and the financial implications of this care.
We understand that going into a care home or receiving care within the community can be a demanding and frustrating time for the individual involved and for their relatives, both financially and emotionally.
The legal framework in which Community Care operates is ever changing and at FBC Manby Bowdler we have a specialist Community Care Team in place whose responsibility it is to navigate those changes for you, ensure that you or your relative understands the care received and the financial implications of this care.
Our Community Care Team draws together lawyers who have expert knowledge on all aspects of Community Care Law, in particular the funding of care for the elderly and the disabled, both during life and after death. We can provide you with clear guidance and support through what can be a challenging and distressing time.
Dementia Friends
Michelle Monnes-Thomas is FBC Manby Bowdler’s Alzheimer’s Society ‘Dementia Friends’ Training Champion and heads the Firm’s support of this initiative.
Though training, workshops and community engagement Michelle leads efforts to educate colleagues about dementia and improve the service we offer to sufferers and those who care for them.
The Team can provide clear advice on a number of issues in this areas including:
Advising on Local Authority Financial Assessments including advice on assets and income to be disregarded as part of this assessment
Advising on jointly owned property
Advising on third party contributions required towards a relative’s care fees
Assisting previous self funders in securing Local Authority Funding for Future Care Fees
Attending assessments and reviews with patients and relatives of patients
Challenging decisions to withdraw NHS Continuing Health Care following review
Advising on potential challenges concerning deliberate deprivation of capital/income
Defending claims made by the Local Authority (particularly regarding Deferred Payment Plans) against an individual
Recovering retrospective nursing care fees previously paid for both a deceased and live patient
Working With Our Service Team
Our legal experts work proactively with you to ensure that you receive tailored, comprehensive and sympathetic advice that assists in uncomplicating the legal process, ensuring at all times you understand what is being done on your families behalf.
- Michelle Monnes-Thomas
If you have an enquiry in relation to Community Care law or simply want to speak to a member of our expert team, please get in touch.
If your personal capital is over £23,250 then you will be required to self-fund the cost of care fees. If your capital falls between £23,250 - £14,250 then you will be eligible to receive partial funding from your local council. Should your capital be £14,250 or below then the council will pay for the majority of your care fees.
Community Care is the phrase used to describe the services and support available to help people live with dignity and independence in the community or within a care setting. These services are predominantly provided by the NHS and social services, and can include help with care at home, respite care, decisions about what care is to be provided and the right care environment, discharge from hospital, funding for care and help with meeting long-term care needs.
NHS Continuing Healthcare is funding provided by the NHS and awarded to those who are deemed to have a primary health need. Eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare is decided by local Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG). Needs are assessed within criteria set out in the Department for Health’s National Framework. Assessors look at the nature or type of needs, the intensity (quantity and severity) of needs, and the complexity and unpredictability.
