About adult social care

Paying for adult social care

Helping you to understand the cost of social care


Support without a financial assessment

Explore options that can reduce costs, improve quality of life and delay or prevent the need for care

Paying for care at home

Home care services, day services, Short-term or respite care, personal budgets, direct payments

Paying for residential or nursing care

Residential or nursing care including deferred payments and top-up payments

Self-funding your own care

Self-directed support is where you take responsibility for managing your own support

Deferred payment schemes

Allows you to use the value of your home to help fund residential care costs

Financial assessment

Whether you are expected to pay towards the cost of your care will depend on your individual financial circumstances

How much we pay for care services

We use set price ranges to decide how much we usually pay for different types of support