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18 Dec 2007

It’s ‘high five’ for Kirklees Council and its partners for the services it provides to vulnerable adults across the district – the fifth year running that adult services have been given the top ‘star’ rating by national watchdogs.

Getting in touch with Adult Services

Contact us for information about the services you require. Enquire or comment about adult social care services, request application forms and leaflets.

Caring

Better Care For You
A joint publication produced by Adults & Communities and health organisations including Kirklees Primary Care Trust (PCT). It provides information on social care, housing and health.

Considering a care home
Information to help you decide if moving to a care home is right for you, help to choose the right home and information on how your care will be paid for.

Carers Gateway
Support and information for carers across Kirklees. Training and courses to suit the needs of carers and help them into employment.

Care home search
Search for a care home in Kirklees and view detailed information in order to make a choice which suits your needs.

Leaving hospital
Information which will help you to get the help you need when leaving hospital.

Support for adults with HIV
We offer emotional and psychological support in a confidential and non judgmental environment.

Families and children

Adoption
Information about adopting a child

Fostering
If you have space in your life and space in your home you could become a foster carer

Leaving care service
Information about the aftercare service provided for young adults wanting to leave care and live independently - entitlement, support, rights.

Children and families
Information and advice for families. Information about the help available to children with a disability unit. Help Guide in PDF format for parents of a child with a disability.

Every child matters
The Every Child Matters in Kirklees conference.

Keeping children safe in Kirklees
Information about prevention of child abuse.

Looked after young people
Information for looked after young people in Kirklees.

Older people and adults with a disability

Adult Placement Scheme
Information for people with a disability who would like to use the service and for people who would like to become carers for the scheme.

Briarcourt Garden Project
A system of day care for adults with learning disabilities within South Kirklees.

Day services improvements
Kirklees Council Adult Services are looking at ways to improve our day care services for people with a visual impairment and people with a learning or physical disability in South Kirklees.

Information for deaf people
Useful contacts, a text messaging service and a BSL(British Sign Language) video guide for deaf people. A text version of the video also available.

Guide for disabled people and their carers
Includes Urdu and English PDF files and Urdu and English sound files. With a new BSL section Services for deaf people.

Home Care
Information and details of the Home Care service including payment methods.

Learning disabilities
Information for people with a learning disability and their carers about day services and Person Centered Planning.

Living independently
Information about equipment and services for the disabled and older people. Kirklees Integrated Community Equipment Service who can provide you with some equipment on free loan

Older people's services
Information about services and adaptations designed to help you whether in your own home or in residential care.

Safeguarding vulnerable adults living in Kirklees
What you should do if you suspect vulnerable adults are being abused. Available to download in Gujerati, Pahari, Punjabi and Urdu.

Vision for older people in Kirklees (PDF 243Kb) PDF icon

Report identifying what older people in Kirklees have told us is important to them and positively affects their quality of life.

Your choice your community
"Your choice your community online" is a quick and easy way of getting information on services in your community for adults with social care needs.

Adult Services Information

Adult Services public information catalogue
The catalogue lists information in print and other media, in English and other languages.

Adult social care - Performance Indicators
An explanation of how the service is evaluated. The indicators measure those things involved in providing a service.

Building Neighbourhood Capacity Initiative
The purpose of the Building Neighbourhood Capacity Initiative is to enable more people to get access to social care and health advice and support, either under one roof at a Gateway site or in their local community.

Gateway to Care
Gateway to care is all about helping people who live in Kirklees to get the social care and health information, advice and services they need all under one roof.

How to make a complaint, comment or compliment
Information on making complaints and compliments.

Listening Points
The Listening Point project is a partnership project between Kirklees Council and Neighbourhood Renewal in Kirklees.

Mental health
It is likely that one in four of us will experience a mental health concern at some time in our life. The most common mental health concerns are anxiety and depression.

Quality standards
Information about the standards social services work to, to ensure they are providing the highest quality service possible.

Research Governance Framework
This information has been produced to help people work towards research governance standards when consulting with adult social care staff, service users and carers.

Single Assessment Process
The Single Assessment Process is a national development from the Department of Health.

Workforce analysis
Kirklees Social Services have been monitoring information linked to the ethnic workforce within the service. Information is used for recruitment and retention strategies and to make sure processes for allocating training resources are fair.

Working in Partnership
Works to support the involvement of service users and carers in planning and decision making about social care and health services in Kirklees.

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