Social Services

• Social Services Home Page
• Bexley Care Trust
• Carers
• Children & Families
• Community Care
• Drug & Alcohol Care
• Emergency Duty Team
• HIV & AIDS
• Learning Disability
• Meals at Home
• Mental Health
• Occupational Therapy
• Older People
• Physical & Sensory Disability
• Better Care, Higher Standards Charter

Documents

• Adult Protection - Alerters Guide Manual, what you must do if you suspect abuse has taken place. (634K - PDF)
• Bexley Care Trust Guide to Local Services (102KB, pdf file)
• Directory of Stroke Services in Bexley (1.29MB, pdf file)

Useful Links

• Bexley Care Trust
• Department of Works & Pensions
• Department of Health
• National Health Service

Social and Community Services

CSCI Star Rating

Bexley is one of the top two social services authorities in the country.

The annual council star ratings for Social Services Departments published by the newly formed Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) on 18 November 2004, showed that of 150 local councils, Bexley maintained its three star level for the third successive year. The Government, therefore, continued to find that Bexley's Social Services was serving all adults and children well and the capacity for sustained improvement was excellent. Underpinning this impressive track record was the Government's recognition of Bexley's successes in using Health Act flexibilities and local strategic partnerships to modernise social services, including establishing one of the county's first Care Trusts (for older people and people with disabilities) and integrating services for children and young people through a pathfinder Children's Trust.

Bexley was now among the 20 leading councils to achieve the highest three star level. Moreover, Bexley became one of only two local authorities in the country to attain the optimum performance of excellence across all its service during 2003/04. This outstanding achievement, as shown in the CSCI Performance Matrix below, which assesses if a Council is serving people well alongside it's capacity to improve, meant that Bexley and Westminster share this top-level position in the country.

See page 13 of the CSCI report for full details (pdf file)

Bexley's retention of the very best Star-rating in the country was an achievement shared only with Westminster Council among the 150 local authorities. The final distribution of the star-ratings is shown in the table below.