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Supporting

People in South

East London

Aurora Nexus
Unit 3 California Buildings
Deals Gateway, London, SE13 7SB

T: 0208 4698103
E: enquiries@aurora-nexus.org
W: www.aurora-nexus.org

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Centre for Adults’ Social Care – Advice, Information and Dispute Resolution
CASCAIDr

Free advice - for upholding adults’ Health and Care Act rights

CASCAIDr is a national advice charity, providing free and low-cost specialist legal advice about everyone’s
rights to have their needs for care and support decided lawfully, reasonably and fairly.
We aim to empower and support people, their carers and practitioners working in the health and care sector to
resolve disagreements about access to services.

Free and low-cost help Our services CASCAIDr adviser
Our free services cover: rights to care CASCAIDr’s service includes a CASCAIDr advisers will: analyse a situation
funding; checking assessments are made telephone helpline; volunteer fact- to check the law is being complied with;
correctly; seeing if councils are complying fi nders; expert advisers to produce free give you a checklist to take to a council or
with the law; checking the legality of cuts letters and checklists; support and ICB; write letters; seek further advice from
to care plans; and access to independent advice for crowdfunding for formal legal barristers; and consider action where
advocacy. For more complex issues and proceedings and help to get through law issues cannot be resolved. CASCAIDr
complaints, we charge £135/hour. fi rms’ screening processes. may support crowdfunding for legal costs.

Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/CASCAIDr-roundup
Subscription costs £25 for a year. Contact us for a sample issue

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