Social Care Services (also known as Community Care) help people who are in need of support due to illness, disability, old age or poverty. Social care services are available to everyone, regardless of background, and can also support the families or carers of people who receive social care.

Local Authorities provide a range of services for children, young people and their families. We have a legal duty under The Children Act to help and protect children in need

Like most people you would probably prefer to receive care services at home when you get older. However, sometimes you may need to consider going into sheltered accommodation or a residential care home instead, but how do you decide which care service is the right option for you?

Many people would prefer to remain in their own home in later life but can find it difficult due to health problems and decreasing mobility. If you are finding it difficult to manage, but would prefer not to move, there may be ways in which life can be made easier …

Enabling people to remain at home helps them maintain personal independence, comfort and contact with their local community. Care at home is flexible, with just the right amount of assistance given at any one time.

If you want stay independent, but in a smaller, easier-to-manage home, with support, then sheltered housing might be the right option for you.

Leaving your home and familiar surroundings to move into a residential care home is a big step. It is important to consider your choices carefully before making a decision about where to move to, but how do you decide and how much is it going to cost?

There are around six million carers in the UK, which means approximately one in six households has a carer. Many people don’t identify themselves as carers, but if you look after someone who’s ill, frail, disabled or unable to cope, you are one.

Advice on Care provides a specialist fees advice service that helps simplify the local authority funding rules and checks that you are receiving all the benefits you should be – including medical ones.

UK Care Guide which is an online independent financial advisory service dedicated to helping people and their families to achieve total peace of mind and financial security in later life.