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About Us
Liberty Social Work Services (CIC) is an independent non-profit organisation which exists primarily to benefit the community. We aim to assist and empower people to solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives by providing support and advise pertaining social care support, direct payments, disability adaptations, EHCP's and SEND transport to and from school. As professional Social Workers and experts by experience, we are offering a wide range of professional services to suit all your needs and requirements. Contact us today to find out how we can help. We are looking forward to talking to you.
As with any community interest organisation, we rely donations/financial support from the public and other organisations to enable us to continue our work.
This short film (see link below) highlights some of the barriers in accessing community services that vulnerable children, young people and their families and carers need to overcome repeatedly on a daily basis. We aim to raise awareness of these challenges and support children, young people and their families access mainstream services and where necessary more specialist services thereby enabling them to be an part of the community not an isolated a forgotten group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY2m7IsU0bw&t=9s
Client Needs Assessment
Expert Service
We aim to undertake comprehensive assessments for each and every client to identify individual needs, preferences, and strengths. The assessment covers various aspects of their’ lives such as: education, cognitive, social, emotional and SEND. The assessment process determines the most appropriate and effective way to support clients.
Benefits of Conducting a Client Assessment
Opportunity to get to know the client as an individual
Establish areas of potential risk
Ascertain a client’s preferences and needs
Acknowledgement of cultural, religious, and ethnic values
Advocate freedom of choice and independence
Education, Health and Social Care
Attention to Detail
Special educational needs (“SEN”) can affect a child or young person’s ability to learn therefore some children and young people will need more support than others to achieve their full learning potential.
They may need extra help, for example, because they have difficulty with reading, understanding, talking, managing their emotions or behaviour, or developing physical skills. A child who needs a lot of extra help in any of these areas has special educational needs (SEN).
Educational settings (schools, nurseries and colleges) have a legal duty to support children and young people with additional needs and disabilities and to treat them fairly. While this may be so, it is a very challenging task ensure needs are appropriately identified and met with many affected young children and young people often not getting the right support or being excluded from educational setting as a result.
Our role is to support you and empower you to make informed decisions and know your rights. We will assist you at any stage of your journey which includes but is not limited to:
1. Statutory Assessment of Needs
2. Education and Health Care Plan Annual reviews
3. Special education needs home-school transport
Social Care Assessments
Customer Focused
A health and social care assessment is carried out by social services to find out what help and support you need - like healthcare, equipment, help in your home or residential care. While this is a very daunting and intrusive process- it is a process that is designed to positively impact on those who use and are in need of social services.
While social care needs assessments and provision will be undertaken and decided by LA social work teams- our aim is to provide independent support to members of the community to ensure they are aware of their rights and advocate for them to get the best support possible based on individual circumstances. We will endeavour to support individuals to access mainstream universal services and help them identify more specialist services where necessary. This is particularly useful for those either in receipt of Direct Payments (DP) or those considering making a request for Direct Payments from the Local Authority. We also support Direct Payments recipients in managing and their resources with emphasis on maximising use of local services.
Form Filling
DLA, PIP, ESA,
We assist our clients in completing forms and putting together evidence in support of DLA, ESA and PIP applications. We understand how difficult it can be to complete these forms and will sensitively collate expert reports and all the infomation gathered from our clients.
Severe Learning Disabilities & Challenging Behaviour
Equality
‘Challenging behaviour’ is how we talk about a range of behaviours which some people with severe learning disabilities may display to get needs met such as hurting others, self harm, detroying furniture or other things, stripping, eating indelible objects or smearing to name a few.
We have a particular interest for this client group as they are some of the most vulnerable individuals in the community as they often find themselves being excluded form education, locked up for prolonged periods in mental health institutions or isolated due to lack of adequate support and limted undestanding of their needs.
Our vision is for anyone with severe learning disabilities who displays challenging behaviour to have the same life opportunities as everyone else.
While we are not experts in this field, we endeavour to improve understanding of challenging behaviour, empower families with information and support, and help others to provide better services and more opportunities. We support families advocate for this client group and sign post them to more specialist organisations (see resources)
Sign-posting
Expert Service
Our aim is to empower and support community members to the best of our ability and where we are unable to assist or more specialist support is needed- we will refer/sign post clients to organisations better equipped than us.
Liberty Social Work Services
We Want to Hear From You
Rotherwick hill, Ealing, W5 3EQ
07584321437
