Funding Advice

Where to get the help you need, is often the most complicated task that carers face. Signposting is confusing and there are many differing ways of receiving referrals and funding.

At Carers Trust we are here to help you find your direction. Each council and integrated care boards (NHS organisations that commission local health services) tend to have their own way of assisting with care, which can further confuse things for carers living further away from their loved ones.

Here we try to break things down:

Funding Advice

Before any care can start, an assessment of needs has to be conducted. This is a thorough assessment whereby a care organisation learns every detail and preference about the family in need so that an individual care plan can be developed. Care plans enable care support workers to learn more quickly about the person and family they will be working with and ensure all preferences and needs are supported. Having both an assessment and a care plan is a requirement of the Care Quality Commission (CQC). As a registered care provider with the CQC, care plans have to be reviewed annually.
There is plenty of information on our national website, https://carers.org/, which has detailed benefits calculators and advice.