Community Care Assessments: A Practical Legal Framework provides all the essential material that practitioners need to advise on a case successfully whether on behalf of a service, user, carer, or local authority. As much of the case law is unreported the legal analysis is particularly valuable. This edition explains: * How the system affects local authorities, individual clients and voluntary organisations * The legal structure of community care assessment and the service provision decisions * How decisions can be challenged and defended * The financial aspects of community care * Legal entitlements of carers.