Southampton Office
Southampton Office: Simply Social Work, Enterprise House, Ocean Way, Southampton, SO14 3XB
Simply Social Work (South) covers the counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire and Wiltshire.
Our team of experienced Social Workers based in Southampton can provide professional, independent Social Work reports for a variety of reasons. Our Southampton team cover the south coast from Portsmouth, across Southampton and into Dorset covering the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole areas.
Our Southampton team specialise in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Tribunal Reports and COP3 Reports, as well as a wide range of mental capacity assessments for welfare and financial decisions as well as litigation mental capacity assessments and testamentary mental capacity assessments.
If you are appealing the decision of a local authority (Portsmouth City Council, Southampton City Council, BCP Council, Dorset Council, Hampshire County Council, West Berkshire Council, Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council, Wokingham Borough Council, Bracknell Forest Borough Council, Reading Borough Council and Slough Borough Council) relating to an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), or a decision not to issue or cease an EHCP, we can be instructed in First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) hearings as a Social Work expert witness.
We can assist professional and lay deputies across Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole and Dorset with their deputyship order applications to the Court of Protection with robust COP3 mental capacity assessments. We aim to complete all COP3 reports within 2 weeks and can usually accommodate urgent requests. If your child has a Child Trust Fund that they cannot access because of their mental capacity in relation to their finances, we can assist with a COP3 mental capacity assessment to support your deputyship application.
We also have a very experienced mental capacity assessment team and can be instructed to assess mental capacity and make mental capacity determinations for a range of welfare and financial decisions. Some of the decisions we have been instructed to assess include;
- Lasting Power of Attorney Mental Capacity Assessment
- Property and Financial Affairs Mental Capacity Assessments
- Health and Welfare Mental Capacity Assessment
- Social Media and Internet Use Capacity Assessment
- Marriage and Sexual Relations Mental Capacity Assessments
- Making a Financial Gift Mental Capacity Assessment
- CCTV Mental Capacity Assessment
- Advanced Decision to Refuse Medical Treatment Mental Capacity Assessment
- EHCP Needs (including education) Assessment Capacity Assessment
- Act as an Executor Mental Capacity Assessment
Because we have expertise in adults and children’s Social Work, we have a wealth of experience assessing the mental capacity of young people transitioning into adulthood. As part of our EHCP Appeal reports, we regularly assess the mental capacity of young people in relation to their care, where they live, their finances, their education and sometimes whether they can decide to engage in sexual relations.
Like our national team, our Southampton team can be instructed to undertake litigation and testamentary mental capacity assessments.
Appointments can be made at our Southampton office, or we can arrange a home visit if you live in the Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire and Wiltshire areas.
All of our assessments and reports are a fixed fee and include a face-to-face or virtual assessment, writing the report and VAT. We don’t charge any travel expenses so the price is the same wherever in the South you live.
