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Focus Adult Social Work

A Community Interest Company which runs Adult Social Care on behalf of North East Lincolnshire Council. Their website includes a useful glossary which is incorporated here in full.

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Abuse

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Physical violence, verbal aggression, unwanted sexual contact, money or property taken without consent or under pressure, neglectful care or the deprivation of choice, privacy or social contact.

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Benefits Agency

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

The Government Department that pays many of the state benefits that you might receive. Many still call it the DSS (Department of Social Security).

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Care Quality Commission

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

The independent regulator of health and adult social care in England.

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Carer

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

An individual who provides unpaid support to a family member or friend who cannot manage without this help.

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Client contribution

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

The chargeable amount a person can be asked to make to their personal budget, subject to their available income and savings.

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Commissioning

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Process the CCG uses to plan and buy services for adults with care and support needs.

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Community-based services

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Care and support services provided in the community rather than in hospital or residential homes.

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Court of Protection

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

The judicial body responsible for making decisions relating to the management of finances and other affairs of those individuals who lack the mental capacity to do so themselves.

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Department of Work and Pensions

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

The Government Department that pays many of the state benefits that you might receive. Many still call it the DSS (Department of Social Security).

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Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Safeguards under the Mental Capacity Act (2005) that aim to protect people in care homes and hospitals from being inappropriately deprived of their liberty.

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Direct payment

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Money payment made to people who need care following an assessment, to help them buy their own care or support, and be in control of those services.

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Domiciliary care

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Provided to people who still live in their own homes but who require additional support with household tasks, personal care or any other activity that allows them to maintain their independence and quality of life.

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Equality

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Adult social care is fully committed to ensuring that no-one is treated in any way less favourably on the grounds of personal differences such as race, colour, nationality, ethnic or social origin, gender reassignment, sex, sexual orientation, religious belief, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, caring responsibilities or political or other personal beliefs.

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Extra care

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Extra care housing is housing designed with the needs of frailer older people in mind; varying levels of care and support are available on site.

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Financial assessment

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

You will be asked to give details of your financial circumstances to an officer for adult social care. These details will be used to work out your disposable income and the amount of money that you will have to pay.

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Financial assets

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Savings, Investments, premium bonds, money in the bank, cash, property and annuities.

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General Data Protection Regulation

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and was designed to harmonise data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizens data privacy and to reshape the way organizations across the region approach data privacy.

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Health and Wellbeing Board

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

The health and wellbeing board is an NEL Council committee, which has responsibility to ensure that the health of the local population improves, and to ensure that health and social services are co-ordinated. These and other responsibilities of the board are set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

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Health inequalities

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Health inequalities are preventable and unjust differences in the health experienced by certain population groups. People in lower socio-economic groups are more likely to experience chronic ill-health and die earlier than those who are more advantaged. Health inequalities are not only apparent between people of different socio-economic groups they exist between different genders and different ethnic groups.

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Hidden carers

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Many carers do not identify themselves as such, and are known as 'hidden carers'.

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Home care

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Help at home from paid carers for people with care and support needs.

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Income

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

A regular payment, usually received weekly, 4 weekly, calendar months, half yearly or annually.

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Integration

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

An integrated service acts as a service hub for the community by bringing together a range of services, usually under one roof, whose practitioners then work in a multi-agency way to deliver integrated support to children, young people and families, for example, extended services or sure start centres.

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Intermediate care

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Intermediate tier services are those provided on a time limited basis to help people discharged from hospital, or to prevent a hospital admission. Their aim is to re-enable people to regain their independence.

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Key ring support network

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

A supported living network made up of a number of ordinary homes for people who need support; a community volunteer lives in one of the homes and helps members. Paid workers are also available to give support.

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Long-term condition

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Long term conditions are health conditions that last a year or longer, impact on a person's life, and may require ongoing care and support.

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Managed budget

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Where a person asks the council to directly provide them with services to the value of their personal budget.

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Outcomes

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

End result, change or benefit for an individual who uses social care and support services.

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Personal budget

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

A money allocation available to someone who needs support; the money comes from the Council's social care funding.

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Personal health budget

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

A personal health budget is an amount of money to support a person's identified health and wellbeing needs, planned and agreed between the person and their local NHS team.

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Personalisation

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

New approach to adult social care that is tailored to people's needs and puts them in control.

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Preventive services

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Services that involve early interventions to prevent long term dependency or ill health.

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Reablement

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Helping people to regain the ability and confidence to do some or all of the things they used to, such as cooking for themselves, bathing without help or getting to the shops.

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Rehabilitation

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Treatment or treatments designed to facilitate the process of recovery from injury, illness, or disease to as normal a condition as possible.

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Residential care

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Care provided in a care home.

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Respite

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

A time limited period away from home in a residential setting which could be for a few days or up to two weeks depending on the assessed needs of you and your carer. You will be notified on admission of the planned length of stay and given a date on which it is planned that you will return home.

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Safeguarding

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Protecting vulnerable people from neglect or physical, financial, psychological, verbal or other forms of abuse.

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Safeguarding Adults Board

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

The safeguarding adults board focuses on the core safeguarding agenda - prevention, identification, investigation and treatment of the abuse of vulnerable adults. It develops safeguarding policies and procedures, participates in the planning of safeguarding services, gives guidance and direction to those responsible for service delivery and champions good practice.

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Self-directed support

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Self-directed support is about people being in control of the support they need to live the life they choose.

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Service user

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

An individual who is in receipt of social care services.

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Social enterprise

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

A business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose.

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Solution

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

The most appropriate method of meeting an individual's needs.

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State benefits

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Money paid, by an agency of the Department of Social Security, such as the Department of Works and Pensions, or Disability Living Foundation Unit.

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Support plan

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

This is a document that sets out what services or help you need and who will do these things.

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Supported Living

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Schemes that help adults to live as independently as possible in the community.

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Supporting evidence

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Birth, Marriage or Death Certificate, bank books or statements, benefit books or pay slips that confirm personal details such as full name and date of birth and the sort and amount of financial assets that you hold.

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Think Local Act Personal

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Think Local Act Personal is a group of over 30 national partners that are committed to real change in adult social care. Their goal is for people to have better lives through more choice and control over the support they use; often referred to as 'personalisation'.

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Third sector

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Voluntary or not for profit sector.

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Time banks

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Time banking is designed to support people who help others, and to offer support to those that need it. Every hour spent doing something for somebody, generates a time credit. Each time credit can then be exchanged for an hour of someone else's time.

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Urgent Care Team

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A service that focuses on preventing avoidable hospital attendances and admission, treating and supporting individuals who have gone into crisis whether they have a health or social care need. (Formerly Rapid Response.)

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Vulnerable adult

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

A person aged 18 or over who may be unable to take care of themselves, or protect themselves from harm or exploitation due to mental health problems, disability, sensory impairment, frailty or other conditions.

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Wellbeing

NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

https://www.focusadultsocialwork.co.uk/social-care-handbook/#glossary

Health and happiness.

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