For professionals doing Care Act assessments with autistic people and people with learning disabilities

We co-created guidance to support social workers and other social care professionals to have conversations about sex and relationships support needs in Care Act assessments with people with learning disabilities and autistic people. 

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Care Act assessment guidance

​We have created two guidance documents, one for social workers working with people with learning disabilities and one for social workers working with autistic people. These documents were co-created with autistic people, people with learning disabilities and social workers. They include how to approach conversations in a way that meets the needs of the people you support. 

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Menu for Support Tool

This tool can be used to guide conversations in Care Act assessments. It lists the 10 eligibility criteria, including sex and relationships support needs. You can take these into Care Act assessments to support your conversations, or to work through with the people you support. 

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We have also created guidance and a menu tool for people with learning disabilities here, and guidance and a menu tool for autistic people here. We encourage you to help the people you support to prepare by providing them with these tools and guidance before their Care Act assessment.

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