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Support for adults and children with disabilities

When you need extra help because you, a child or a family member has a physical or mental disability then various statutory agencies including social services and your local NHS trust may have duties to provide you with services or provide you with direct payments so that you can commission your own services.

If you are not getting the help you need, you may need legal support to put things right.

We can advise on
  • obtaining an assessment of a disabled person’s needs for help with personal and other care;
  • obtaining an assessment of a carer’s needs;
  • challenging an inadequate assessment;
  • securing access to respite care;
  • rights to aids and adaptations in the home; and
  • challenging a proposed cut in the services you receive.
Funding for legal advice or representation

Subject to your means, we may be able to obtain legal aid funding to bring a challenge to an unlawful decision.

Once we understand your circumstances, we will advise what funding might be available and discuss which payment options might work best for you.

Who to contact

Jasper Blumenthal, Trainee Solicitor, Miles & Partners

Jasper Blumenthal

Solicitor
Andrew Bowmer, Miles & Partners Solicitors, London

Andrew Bowmer

Partner
Lou Crisfield, Miles & Partners Solicitors, London

Lou Crisfield

Partner

What clients say

“I would like to thank Jasper Blumenthal and Andrew Bowmer for all the work they have both done. I have not been this happy in a long time and have them to thank for that.”

Anonymous client

“God bless you for the good job you are doing for us.”

Samuel Afrifa

“Andrew Bowmer, mental capacity and community care solicitor is to be commended on his professionalism in a recent case concerning excessive restrictions in place on a vulnerable adult in a care home. Andrew wrote ‘an impressive letter’ to the local authority making representations, the quality of which was recognised by a professional litigation friend.”

Anonymous client

“I have the deepest appreciation and respect for Kate Hammond and her colleagues, and their knowledge about legislation, domestic violence, mental health and children’s developmental stages.

I have worked with Kate when interviewing children. Kate is fully aware of how to approach children and deliver a message at a child’s level of understanding and in a child-friendly manner. Kate is equally skilled in speaking to the parties, in a balanced and fair manner, presenting a neutral message and making sure that they understand her role, as a child’s solicitor, always bearing in mind child’s best interests.

Kate has impressed me in terms of her professional courtesy shown to the parties, her ability to stay focused on the key issues, her ability to challenge lack of parental insight and her ability to effect prolonged engagement with the parties to promote a positive outcome on the case.

Kate Hammond is highly skilled in representing the interests of the children and other vulnerable client groups in front of the Courts, as well as a robust legal advisor, helping and supporting me to make the best and safest recommendations for the children in my work.”

MI, Enhanced Practitioner, CAFCASS