Luke Clements

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Previous Posts

• Abolishing home care charges
• Herefordshire children’s services – a public inquiry: if not here, then where?
• Systems Generated Trauma
• Innovative short breaks scheme for parent carers
• Revised school transport guidance (England)
• Decision making quality and the Local Government Ombudsman
• Jam tomorrow – maybe: the revised Working Together guidance.
• Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) research report
• A care home as the cheaper option.
• Section 117 Mental Health Act (MHA) 1983 and Ordinary Residence: the Supreme Court decides
• Direct payments and disabled children
• Fit-for-Purpose Guidance for the Assessment of Disabled Children & their Families.
• Consultation on the revision of the ‘Working Together’ guidance.
• A welcome judgment concerning social care charges
• PANS, PANDAS & Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII)
• School transport as a human right
• She was provided with a leaflet.
• Autism and Parental Blame
• 462% increase in children’s ‘deprivation of liberty’ applications
• I love my dog.
• A sufficiency of carers support services
• Impoverished councils
• A Landmark UN carers decision
• Fit for purpose disabled children’s assessment guidance
• NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) ~ Ombudsman report
• Double standards
• Parent Blame in the NHS
• Troubling conclusions
• The duty to meet needs
• What exactly is going on in Bristol?
• FII (Fabricated or Induced Illness) Survey
• New NHS Continuing Healthcare Framework
• At last – something sensible on FII
• No more than ‘reasonably practicable’
• Government concedes carers’ hospital discharge rights
• Direct payments and disabled children with the ‘wrong impairments’.
• Carers victory in the Lords
• Coroner criticises ‘Working Together 2018’
• Holidays and Poor Law Commissioners
• It is time to recognise the unpaid carer as a worker
• What a mess – s117 ordinary residence (again)
• Blamed and criticised for her parenting
• Parent Carer Blame webinar materials
• Webinar: Wednesday December 8th: 10am
• A High Octane Conflict
• ‘Autism Plus’ policies
• Parent carer blame with added stereotyping
• Institutionalising Parent-carer Blame
• An expression of righteous anger might sometimes not be amiss?
• Parent Carer’s Needs Assessments
• An unpaid carer’s life: a cri de cœur
• The Health & Social Care Integration White Paper and Carers
• Carers and the Health and Care Bill
• NHS Ombudsman news and a Fast-track decision
• Housing adaptations and disabled young people
• Section 117 & Ordinary Residence ~ All change yet again
• Charging, strategic litigation and the Norfolk judgment
• NHS Continuing Health Care (CHC) judgment
• High Court Social Care Charging judgment
• It’s definitely not autism it’s …
• Disabled children’s assessments
• Revised NHS ‘Who Pays?’ Guidance
• We only met two minutes ago but you already think you know everything about me.
• Public Accounts Committee Report
• Unlawful ‘Autism Plus’ policies
• Charging for social care campaign
• NHS Continuing Healthcare & young people: R (JP) v NHS Croydon (2020)
• Delay and the ombudsman: how depressing. 
• Ordinary Residence s117 ~ all change
• Visual impairment rehabilitation timeframes
• Coronavirus and direct payments
• Urgent care
• Home care charges – the injustice continues
• The suspension of care home inspections
• Magic wands, misdirection and shock
• Undermining children’s safeguarding duties
• Social Justice another coronavirus casualty
• Coronavirus: Direct Payments & Personal Health Budgets
• Coronavirus update
• Chinese whispers, NHS Complaints & Covid-19
• Coronavirus Act threatens care for disabled people
• The Coronavirus Act 2020
• Coronavirus Bill Impact assessment.
• The Coronavirus Bill and the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939.
• The Coronavirus Bill, social care & SEN
• Disabled children, their carers and Coronavirus
• Is ‘indignation’ old fashioned?
• No such word as ‘can’t’
• The Queen’s Speech
• NHS Personal Health Budgets: new rights and new guidance
• NHS Continuing Healthcare statistics
• Unacceptable delay:
• Anniversary quotes
• Unfortunately … there is no legal footing to justify us not funding
• Under 5’s school transport
• Education Committee Report on SEND
• Post-16 students and free school / college travel assistance
• So what do you do?
• Direct Payments for Young People
• ‘Omg … will it never end’
• Pre-payment cards and direct payments
• Charges for community care
• DWP and MoJ unlawful inaction
• Disabled Facilities Grants (DFGs) and social care responsibilities
• Extra care housing: ‘just in time’ systems are for cars not care
• Post-19 education transport costs
• NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) and transitions into adulthood
• NHS CHC and supine council leaders
• Staying in a care home when savings spent
• Can you cope?
• Elaine McDonald
• Personal Budgets: the tail and the dog
• The charging regulations and injustice
• Is Britain Fairer? No.
• Continuing Health Care Funding and End of Life Care
• Families with severely disabled children should not have to live like this.
• Improving Flexible Working Rights for Carers
• Disabled Facilities Grants and young people in England
• The Misuse by local authorities of their ‘protection’ powers
• Pet care costs and social care charges
• The accessibility of Disabled Facilities Grant application forms
• Another fall in NHS Continuing Care (CHC) numbers
• Difficult questions require a ‘plan’: ‘transitions’ as an example.
• Autistic children and care assessments
• Administering a cap on costs [2]
• FACS and fiction
• 52% of Carers are Refused Flexible Working – the Law Needs to Change
• Carers and their Rights: Guide
• Means testing children’s healthcare ~ by stealth
• Musical beds
• Direct Payments Research
• Social care reform: avoiding the obvious [1]
• N v. Romania (2017)
• The Torbay judgment: from the micro to the macro
• The Barking Ordinary Residence decision
• The Cheese Sketch
• “That’s what your DLA is for”
• School transport costs rising
• Deconstructing the social care ‘meal’
• A dismal judgment
• Another good judgment
• What’s the point of section 5?
• A human catastrophe
• National Audit Office Report on NHS Continuing Healthcare
• School Transport and local authority information failings
• R (JF) v Merton LBC ~ High Court Social Care Law Assessment judgment
• Home adaptations for disabled children and young people
• New Edition of the “Cerebra Accessing Public Services: Problem Solving Toolkit”
• Keynote address to the BASW Cymru Conference ~ text
• Social Services & Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (updated briefing June 2017).
• The Conservative Manifesto and social care
• Social Care in Wales: A Guide for disabled children and their families
• Community Care & the Law – 6th Edition
• Care Act 2014 updated briefing (January 2017)
• School Transport Guide
• Late Spring 2016 Newsletter
• Challenging reductions in care packages
• New Disability Law Hub
• Cerebra Problem Solving Toolkit 2016
• New Edition ~ Disabled Children: Legal Handbook (2016)
• Carers Movement – YouTube resource materials
• Carers and Their Rights
• Lecture Series: Assessment, Care Planning & NHS Continuing Care
• Does your carer take sugar? Carers and Human Rights
• Putting the Cart before the Horse: Resource Allocation Systems and Community Care
• The European Union Structural Funds and the Right to Community Living
• Disabled Children Parents’ Guide: Social Care, Housing and Health
• Disabled Children Education Guide
• The European Union and the Right to Community Living
• R (McDonald) v Kensington and Chelsea (2011)
• Social Care Portability Bill
• Transitions in Mental Health Care
• A Care Council Wales Guide to Child Care Law
• The Equality Act 2010 and Carers
• Carers Guide To The Law