Practical Care

Personal Care

Funding your Care at Home

Lettershanner will provide care services through local authority funded packages, direct payments and through private funding.

Financial assessment and paying for your care

Everyone will receive a financial assessment depending on the outcome of this you may have to pay the full cost or make a contribution towards your care and support, if you have a capital or savings of more than £23,250 (correct of as May 2011) you will have to pay for any care services you require.

Managing your Personal Budget

Once you have been allocated a personal budget you can then choose to arrange and manage your care in three ways;

1) The council arranges and manages all of your care.
2) You manage a direct payment yourself.
3) A mix of the two.

Council Managed Budgets

You can ask the council to organise and manage your care arrangements. work with you to make sure the care and support is what you need and want and is provided by an agency you are happy with.

Direct Payments

A direct payment is when you are responsible for arranging and managing your own care, with the support of the self-directed support team. You will be able to make your own decisions about your care, which could include personal care, equipment, or activities to do during the day.

Mix of the two

You can choose to have some of your personal budget paid as a direct payment and ask the council to manage some of the money on your behalf.This might apply if you receive a Direct Payment for support at home but also attend a day centre one day a week, which is purchased by the council.