Community Care

We need your support to enable us to offer Community Care law advice and casework free to the client. Please complete this form ​and/or contact our director ginettec@ablc.org.uk (please note deadline extended)
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE NO CAPACITY FOR COMMUNITY CARE WORK but can advise on firms to contact.
​Please also read our Public Law and Mental Health pages. 
  • Support at home with everyday tasks or getting out and about
  • Disability aids, adaptations, services and facilities
  • Mental Health Care in the community
  • NHS Continuing Care and Hospital Discharge procedure
  • Younger or older people's care services, accommodation and care charging
  • Care and support for Learning Disabilities
  • Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
  • Drug and Alcohol abuse
  • Advice and support for carers
  • Mental Capacity and Court of Protection
  • Social services and health care support for migrants and failed asylum seekers with no recourse to public funds
  • Unaccompanied asylum seeking children
  • Support for victims of trafficking

How can we help?

We provide specialist advice, casework and representation in all the above situations. From NHS primary care and GP services to care and support from the local authority; from disability rights to assistance for carers with care and support.

If you, or people you care for, have difficulty accessing these services, we can advise you on how to take the first steps to obtain the help you need. This may be to help find your way around the health and social care system, or question a decision you think is wrong.

As we also act for people on welfare benefits, housing, debt and mental health issues, we can help to disentangle complicated problems that often involve many of these areas, and help you clarify your rights and how to protect them.

Who can we help?

All casework is subject to both means and merits tests and to the current capacity of the team. 
We can provide casework for people living in Bristol and South Gloucestershire as well as across the South West of England.

How to contact us

You can:
  • Call us directly on 0117 924 8662 to discuss your questions and we will advise you if and how we can help. 
  • ​Fax: 0117 924 8020
  • Minicom: 0117 924 5573

Other sources of information and advice about Community Care

  • The Care Forum / Healthwatch
  • MIND (for an overview of legal rights relating to care, in particular mental health)
  • NHS (for help in finding health and care services)
  • Disability Rights UK (for support with disabilities and health conditions)
  • Age UK Bristol (for support for older people)
  • Carers UK (for help and advice for carers
  • Well Aware (Information on health and wellbeing services, support organisations, activities and groups in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Bath & North East Somerset, North Somerset and Somerset)

Some of our previous work in Community Care

Susan was isolated and increasingly frail until adequate care and support was eventually provided.
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