Money Matters

Financial assessments

If you’re looking into arranging care at home or moving into a care home, a financial assessment is used to work out how your care will be paid for.

Financial Assessment

Paying for care

Information about charges for social care services provided to help you remain in your own home.

Paying for Care

Direct Payments

Direct Payments make it possible for you to buy the services that you have been assessed as needing, in a way that gives you greater choice and control.

Direct Payments

Paying for residential care

More information about paying for residential and nursing care costs and how the charges are worked out.

Paying for Residential Care

Deferred payments

A deferred payment can help you pay for the cost of your care and support, if you are moving into a residential or nursing care home.

Deferred Payment Scheme

Managing someone else’s finances

You may need to manage someone else's finances because of illness or disability or their inability to make decisions, because of mental illness or other reasons. No one can manage another person’s finances without their consent.

Managing Someone Else’s Finances

Additional Cost in relation to Care Home placement

If you are going into a care home, you can choose to go to a home which is more expensive than the one the local authority offers you but you will have to pay the difference in cost. Find out more...

Additional Cost in relation to a Care Home Placement

Privately arranged for care

If you have been resident in a care home under a private arrangement and want the council to help you with the contract arrangements, find out more here.

Privately Arranged for Care Home Placement

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Additional Cost in relation to Care Home placement

Privately arranged for care