1. Heads up on Brain Injury Assessments Introduction Guy Soulsby, Chair, Brain Injury Social Work Group, and Social Worker, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre, Mossley Hill Hospital, Liverpool

2. There are about 100-150 per 100,000 disabled survivors of severe brain injury in the UK. At any one time there are thought to be about 75,000 disabled survivors of brain injury.

4. In Liverpool we have a team of social workers for people with LD and a range of specialist health and social care provision. There is only me specifically for brain injury – and in the neighbouring authorities no specialist social services - yet there will be significant numbers of people with severe problems in all areas as a result of brain injury. This means that social workers – and it tends to be those in teams for adults with physical disability – will be working with brain injury survivors.

5. It is useful to have some idea whether the person’s problems are related to a brain injury. The BINI, which you will hear about later this morning, gives some indication if the person you are assessing has problems related to a brain injury.