funding your care
You’ve made the important decision that home care is the best way for you, or someone you love, to carry on living independently at home.
But it’s natural to thing about the cost of the home care and how you are going to pay for it. It’s also sensible to find out whether you may be entitles to help with meeting the cost, particularly if you income and savings are limited.
You may be eligible for local authority funding to help with the cost of home care and if you have not already done so, the first step to establishing whether you are eligible for financial help is to contact your local council.
They will assess your support needs and, if you meet their eligibility criteria, will also assess your personal financial circumstances. These assessments will help your council to decide the level of financial assistance you are entitles to help pay for the support you need. Although this process is similar for all local authorities, the actual assessment and the funding available will vary from council to council.
The government wants to give people who receive local authority-funded care and support more control and choice over their care. This means giving people who are eligible for financial assistance the option of choosing their won package of care and arranging home care services directly with the provider of their choice, like 24/7 Helping Hands Service.
Working in this way involves personal budgets and direct payments. Whether the local authority manages your home care or you arrange this yourself, a care or support plan will be put in place, setting out your care needs and how they will be met.
For more information on 24/7 Helping Hands Service, please contact us.
personal budgets and direct payments
But it’s natural to thing about the cost of the home care and how you are going to pay for it. It’s also sensible to find out whether you may be entitles to help with meeting the cost, particularly if you income and savings are limited.
You may be eligible for local authority funding to help with the cost of home care and if you have not already done so, the first step to establishing whether you are eligible for financial help is to contact your local council.
They will assess your support needs and, if you meet their eligibility criteria, will also assess your personal financial circumstances. These assessments will help your council to decide the level of financial assistance you are entitles to help pay for the support you need. Although this process is similar for all local authorities, the actual assessment and the funding available will vary from council to council.
The government wants to give people who receive local authority-funded care and support more control and choice over their care. This means giving people who are eligible for financial assistance the option of choosing their won package of care and arranging home care services directly with the provider of their choice, like 24/7 Helping Hands Service.
Working in this way involves personal budgets and direct payments. Whether the local authority manages your home care or you arrange this yourself, a care or support plan will be put in place, setting out your care needs and how they will be met.
For more information on 24/7 Helping Hands Service, please contact us.
support for you
If you are paying for your home care from your own funds, or are doing so through a direct payment, you will be in control of making decisions about your care and support as well as managing the ongoing arrangements.
We understand that choosing a home care provider is not a decision to be made quickly or lightly and the process can be time-consuming and sometimes confusing and stressful.
24/7 Helping Hands Service is here to help. We are happy to share our knowledge and expertise with you. When you contact us, our friendly and helpful staff will answer your questions and explore how we can deliver the solutions you are looking for.
We are also happy to meet you in person so that we can discuss your requirements in more details and help you to get to know us and our organisation a little better. As well as offering a free trial of our services, we can help in the preparation of support plans required un direct payment arrangements and we also offer:
- Bespoke packages personalized to suit the way you want live your life
- We will provide or recruit experienced carers, according to your specification and requirements