Glasgow City Council provides a range of services for physically disabled people living in the city. These include assessment of needs, aids and equipment to help with the tasks of daily living, funding to meet the cost of temporary adaptations to houses, provision of day service opportunities and supported accommodation.
Specific services are also available to people with sensory impairments
Social Work Services’ responsibilities
In relation to physically disabled people we have a responsibility to:
- assess and arrange services for people according to what they need, or assess and arrange for people to receive a direct payment to buy their own services
- with consent, contact housing and health services where assessment has shown assistance is needed
- encourage and develop a variety of services in response to what people need
Social Work Services can arrange and pay for services for physically disabled people to be provided by the City Council, voluntary organisations, private agencies and self-help or carers groups.
The Glasgow City Physical Disability Planning and Implementation Group have produced a Strategic Framework for People with Physical Impairments.
For information on how to contact your local social work office see How to Access Services
For information on day services within Glasgow see Glasgow Day Services.
Apart from initial information and advice it is usually necessary to be assessed for a service. There is no charge for assessment but for some services, for example, home care, there may be a charge. This normally depends on your income. For more information on assessment see What is an assessment?
Emergency situations
If you have an emergency:
- within office hours, you will be given an urgent appointment
- outwith office hours, phone Social Work Standby Services on 0800 811505
For more information see Standby/Out of hours service
Our commitment to you
For fuller information on how to comment or complain see Your Views
Information on these, and other, services is available in leaflet format. These are available in portable document format for downloading. The Adobe Acrobat reader can be freely downloaded from the Adobe web site