Eligibility criteria for those with critical needs

If your assessment shows that you have critical needs, you will be eligible for services provided for or arranged by adult services.

The critical needs band covers the most serious situations where, without intervention, the result will be loss of life or serious harm, including:

• an inability to protect yourself, maintain your own personal or others' safety, or carry out self-care tasks resulting in a threat to life
• the risk of becoming seriously mentally ill
• the risk of requiring immediate admission to hospital or residential care if services are not provided
• a severe restriction of opportunity within the family, work and the wider community which threatens life.

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Descriptions of risk to independence

Health and safety

• Life is or will be threatened
• Significant health problems have developed or will develop resulting in a threat to life
• Abuse or neglect has occurred or will occur with the potential to threaten life or result in serious harm.

Personal and domestic routines

• Without support, there is or will be an inability to carry out vital personal care or domestic routines resulting in a threat to life.

Autonomy

• Without support, there is little or no choice and control over vital aspects of the immediate environment resulting in a threat to life.

Involvement in family, work and wider community life

• Without support, vital family and other social roles and responsibilities cannot or will not be sustained resulting in a threat to life
• Without support, vital involvement in work, learning or education cannot or will not be sustained resulting in a threat to life
• Without support, vital social support systems and key relationships cannot or will not be sustained resulting in a threat to life.

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