Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Compulsory care and rehabilitation of prisoners and former special patients - Assessment of prisoners and former special patients

32: Arrangements for assessment

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"How a team is chosen to assess your needs"

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When you are going to be assessed, a co-ordinator starts the process. The co-ordinator chooses a care manager for you, as stated in section 141. The co-ordinator also picks one or more specialist assessors to assess you.

You will have a care manager and specialist assessors assigned to you. The care manager is chosen according to the rules in section 141. The specialist assessors are chosen to assess your specific needs.

The co-ordinator is in charge of making sure you get the right people to assess you. They make sure you have a care manager and specialist assessors. These people work together to assess you.

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Assessment of prisoners and former special patients

32Arrangements for assessment

  1. The co-ordinator initiates an assessment of a person who is to be assessed—

  2. by designating a care manager for the person in accordance with section 141; and
    1. designating 1 or more specialist assessors who are to assess the person.