PURE Adult Social Care

Accessing services or accessing justice in Social Care are becoming untennably difficult.

For litigators – from the paralegal to the KC and from the clerk to the Judge – this means the potency of the tools of their trade, the very statutes and guidelines underpinning their work are in their effect being watered down.

For people dependent on the potency and robustness of those statutes and guidelines – from the adult with dementia to the ‘sandwiched’ carer – this means it has become untennably difficult to secure help and support or to secure justice when they have been exposed to legal wrongs.

And if people are not able to secure justice, then those wrong’s become the norm and the watering down of the potency of the law continues.

Litigators know and understand this. People in need of care and support generally do not.

Litigators know and understand how the law should work – people with unmet needs just know it’s not working for them. They don’t know why, or how or even if it should be working differently because they don’t know what they don’t know.

This blog will serve as an educational bridge aimed at providing simplified explanations of statute, guidance, case law and more; set alongside common real-life situations.

Its aim is to educate and therefore empower people in need; non-litigators to recognise when it may not be the law failing them but its faultering or even complete lack of implementation that is at issue.

The hope is that this will enable people to ask (the right) questions, recognise when and how to speak up, about which things and to whom instead of believing the current status quo must be accepted as ‘just the way it is’.

If you are a litigator who would like to suggest or provide a simplified version of a key piece of the CA14, MHA05, ECHR, CRPD or EA10 in which you have a particular expertise or interest, or which you feel would be particulary helpful for non-litigators to grasp – please do leave a comment to that effect or if you prefer please use the private fillable form here.

If you are employed in an associated profession; perhaps as a social worker, mental health or capacity assessor, IMCA, care home lead, support worker or hospital cleaner and you would like to share your experiences or your simplified versions of the legislation and regulations covering your profession please also leave a comment or again if you prefer to, you can access a private fillable form here.

If you are a care and support recipient or a person with unmet needs and you would like to share your experiences of trying to access care and support; the issues that you may have faced within the social care system or maybe have burning questions as to why this or that can or has been allowed to happen, then please feel free to comment and use the private form provided here.