The Social Worker is coming out to see us as apparently everyone in our area is to be switched to self directed support under a personalised budget. I get the impression that he only regards my husband as our son's carer and not me despite the fact that I am the one who gets the carers allowance for our son. We don't know what to expect from this meeting. Since I have now been diagnosed with 4 fractured vertebrae and osteoporosis I cannot help my husband with the care like I used to and he has been doing everything for the last 18 months on his own.
Should we be getting two disabled people's assessments and a carers assessment? Or should it be 2 carers assessments and 1 disabled person (my son)? SW says that carers don't get a budget on their own and what carers do for a disabled person is taken off what the disabled person gets in their budget so basically they will be using us as unpaid workers even though he says no one is forcing us to care. So what we do is taken into account when calculating the personal care budget but we get nothing from it is that right?
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Should we be getting two disabled people's assessments and a carers assessment? Or should it be 2 carers assessments and 1 disabled person (my son)? SW says that carers don't get a budget on their own and what carers do for a disabled person is taken off what the disabled person gets in their budget so basically they will be using us as unpaid workers even though he says no one is forcing us to care. So what we do is taken into account when calculating the personal care budget but we get nothing from it is that right?
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