Southampton (South) Office

Southampton Office: Simply Social Work, Enterprise House, Ocean Way, Southampton, SO14 3XB

Tel: 0238 155 0053 Simply Social Work (South) offers adult and children Social Work services to private client, Court of Protection and education solicitors across the counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire and Wiltshire.  Our team of experienced Social Workers and Associate Social Workers based in our Southampton office area can provide professional, independent Social Work reports for children, young people and adults.  Our Southampton office area team specialise in social care reports for EHCP appeals to the First-Tier Tribunal (SEND), COP3 mental capacity reports for deputyship applications,  all other mental capacity assessments, care needs reports for adults and children, immigration reports and deprivation of liberty appeals to the Court of Protection.

EHCP Appeals

If you are appealing the decision of a local authority in relation to 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 be instructed to write court compliant care and support needs reports to submit to the Tribunal as evidence and comment on sections D, F, H1 and H2 of an EHCP.

Mental Capacity Reports

We can assist professional and lay deputies across with their deputyship order applications to the Court of Protection with robust COP3 mental capacity assessments. We aim to complete all COP3 reports within 3 weeks and can usually accommodate urgent requests if required. 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 (most of whom are qualified Best Interests Assessors) and can be instructed to assess mental capacity and make mental capacity determinations for a range of welfare and financial decisions including;

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.

Care Assessments, Court of Protection  and Deprivation of Liberty Matters

Our Southampton Office area boasts not only a team of experienced Social Workers, but a team of Best Interests Assessors.  Therefore, we can be instructed in Court of Protection proceedings relating to Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards authorisations and any other Court of Protection matters.  As well as assessing mental capacity, we can undertake a comprehensive care and support needs assessment to determine a person's care and support needs and the provision they require. We can also undertake care and support needs assessments for a range of other reasons.

Immigration and VISA Reports

We have several years’ experience writing Immigration reports and we are now receiving a growing number of instructions from Human Rights and Specialist Immigration Solicitors. Typically, there are three areas we are asked to assess and write reports although we are always happy explore new areas they fall within our expertise:

Contact Us Today

Contact us to book an appointment, or for more information about the services we offer across the Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire and Berkshire areas. If you would like to enquire about our fees, please visit Our Fees, for details of our current fees. Our fees always include a face-to-face or video assessment and we never charge any fees for travel, so the cost is the same wherever in the South of England you live. Our Southampton office area team covers the areas of Dorset (including Bridport, Dorchester, Weymouth, Shaftesbury, Wareham, Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch), Hampshire (including Southampton, Andover, Winchester, Basingstoke and Farnborough), Wiltshire (including Salisbury, Swindon, Chippenham and Warminster), Berkshire (including Reading, Slough, Bracknell, Maidenhead, Windsor, Wokingham and Newbury).