Support with Your Care Needs

Advice on the care needs assessment process, using an advocate to support you, rehabilitation and reablement services, care in your own home and choosing a care home.

Advice on the care needs assessment process, using an advocate to support you, rehabilitation and reablement services, care in your own home and choosing a care home.

People stay healthier and happier for longer when they can help themselves, or when they have the support of friends, family or their community. Some people do require more, specialist support and this is enabled through the council or partners to enhance the help they already get. We also support carers, recognising the importance of their own wellbeing and resilience alongside those of the person they care for. Everything we do together is to enable people stay in their own homes, families, jobs and communities.

Providing Support 

Contact adult social services at your local council and ask for a carer's assessment.
If you're a parent or carer of a child, contact the children with disabilities department.
You can call or do it online.

Benefits for carers 

You might not think of yourself as a carer. But you probably are if you're looking after someone regularly, including your spouse or a family member, because they're ill or disabled.
As a carer, you may be entitled to one or more state benefits to help you with the costs.

How to Care - keeping clean

Keeping yourself or someone you care for clean is essential. Poor hygiene can cause discomfort, skin complaints and infections, and can lower self-esteem.

Work & Disability

About half of working-age people with disabilities in the UK are employed. But this figure should be higher. With the right support, many more could join their ranks. If you have a disability, you may be worried it'll limit your job prospects or you will not be able to find work. But there's lots of guidance, support and training to help you into employment. Government-backed schemes can help, while awareness-raising initiatives are challenging the stereotypes about people with disabilities to make sure everyone has a fair chance of working.