Advice for older and disabled people

You can download a leaflet that has advice and information on arranging, and paying for, your own care services on this page.

This information may be useful to you, whether or not you receive direct payments from the Council.

Download the leaflet

Download our advice leaflet on how to organise your own care.

You will need a copy of Adobe Reader to download this document. See the Useful links on the right to download a free copy of the reader.

Contents of the leaflet

The leaflet has information on:

• charges for personal care and domestic help
• home care agencies that are used by our social care teams
• questions to consider when buying in home care
• other services such as laundry services, aids and equipment, shopping services, frozen meals, jobs around the home, welfare rights and transport services.

Other sources of information

For further advice and information, visit the section on arranging your own care at Directgov.