Leaflets and factsheets – Adult social care and health
Leaflets
A guide to Adult Social Care and Health
Leaflet – A guide to Adult Social Care and Health
Easy read – A guide to Adult Social Care and Health
What you will need to pay towards the cost of your care
Leaflet – What you will need to pay
Easy read – What you will need to pay for services
Your feedback matters
Leaflet – Your feedback matters: How to share your feedback or make a complaint
Easy read – How to make a complaint or give feedback
Do you look after someone? (carers)
Leaflet – Do you look after someone?
British Sign Language (BSL) videos
To view BSL videos of our leaflets, visit BSL leaflets.
Factsheets
Who qualifies for our support?
Find out if you are eligible for support from Adult Social Care.
Assessment, support planning and review
How we assess you, plan your social care support and review how things are going.
Independent advocacy – someone to speak up for you
An advocate can help you put your views across.
A brief guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005
What mental capacity is and how it is assessed.
Finance
Financial assessments for care and support not in a care home
How we work out what you will pay for home care and other services (excluding care homes)
Financial assessments for residential care
How we work out what you will pay towards your care in a residential home.
Financial assessments if you have been fully funding your own care
What happens if you are paying the full cost of care.
Going into residential care when you own a property
About the deferred payment scheme and other options if you are moving into a care home.
Care home top-up payments
How to 'top up' someone's care home fees.
Direct payments
What direct payments are and how you can use them.
Paying for services with direct payments
All the different ways you can spend your direct payments on your care and support.
Types of direct payment account
Explains the three different ways you can receive your direct payments.
Using personal assistants
How to ensure your personal assistant has the right employment status.
Managing someone else's affairs
How to become a power of attorney, appointee or deputy.
Leaflets in your language
If you would like one of our information leaflets or publications translated into your language, please contact Adult Social Care and Health on 0345 60 80 191.
Leave a message giving the title of the leaflet and the language you would like it translated into, together with your name and address.
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