Does high court ruling against DWP re PIP apply to local authorities too

Hay

Re CPIP/1599/2016 Does anyone know if this would apply to local authority care assessments. For the last 15 years or so I have been assessed as needing care and supervision the whole time my husband is at work plus travel time and some emergency hours. I have chronic health problems including epilepsy. Now they are saying it's not a social care need and they want to take away my care package and replace it with a basic am, lunchtime and pm pop in. Does the High Court Judge's ruling re epilepsy apply to local authorities since that's why they always said I needed someone with me to avoid falls. My walking is worse now than it's ever been and my bones are now crumbling so I've also been told to avoid falls! I have indefinite PIP 

poppy123456

Unfortunately it doesn't. This is related to PIP only. 

Hay

Thanks I was hoping I could use the judgement since he pointed out that epilepsy sufferers could be deemed "at risk" of falls and needed social care "even when sitting watching the tv" - have to find something else 😥

Hay

Thanks. Still fighting but getting me down. Had two seizures this morning and I think it's the stress. Can't stop thinking about it. They asked me to fill out a diary of everything my carers do for me ( with minutes for every task etc) and gave me one sheet per day so I emailed them stating there wasn't enough room for everything and listed everything, every day I.e. every time they supervised & assisted me to toilet, every time they gave me medication, everytime they cared for me while I had a seizure etc. and filled 12 pages with the minutes taken for every task. They've come back to me and said they want to know what they do to get me up, what do they do at lunchtime and what do they do at teatime. It's all in there. They just don't want to submit it. It's clear they want to take away my personal budget and skilled carers and bring in a **** agency 3 times a day. If I have seizures in between they don't care. That's why I thought the high court ruling might help since it uses epilepsy as an example. I have other medical conditions but that has always been the clincher for the past 12 years.