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If you care for someone, you can have an assessment to see what might help make your life easier.
Chapters 6 and 7.
Chapters 8 and 9.
Recommendations from the Chief Social Worker for Adults, principal social workers and principal occupational therapists on flexibility and innovation in approaches to adult social care assessments.
Apply for a needs assessment by social services through your local council - support, home care help, disability equipment, day centres, care homes
Find out how to get certain payments tax-free for foster carers, adult placement carers, kinship carers and staying put carers.
Chapters 10, 11, 12 and 13.
Details and allocations of funding for local authorities in relation to the Care Quality Commission assessment of adult social care duties for the first time.
Chapters 15, 16, 17 and 18.
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
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