Funding Your Care
Finding the right support is easier when you understand how care is funded. We’ll help you explore your options, whether you’re considering private payments, local authority support, or other funding routes available in your area. Our team can guide you through what to expect, answer your questions, and explain how domiciliary care can be tailored to fit your needs and budget—so you can make informed decisions with confidence.
Funding Your Care
Care needs assessment: Anyone can ask their local council for a free assessment of their care needs, regardless of income. This is the first step to any council funding.
Financial assessment (means test): If you have eligible needs, the council looks at your savings and income. In England, if your capital is above the upper threshold (currently £23,250 — check the latest figure), you'll usually pay for your own care; below the lower threshold (£14,250) the council contributes more. Your home is *not counted when you're receiving care in your own home.
Direct Payments: If the council agrees to fund some or all of your care, you can ask for the money as a Direct Payment and choose your own provider — including us.
Attendance Allowance: A non-means-tested benefit for people over State Pension age who need help with personal care. Many people who qualify never claim it.
Personal Independence Payment (PIP): The equivalent for people under State Pension age.
Carer's Allowance: For family members providing 35+ hours of care a week.
NHS Continuing Healthcare: Fully NHS-funded care for people whose needs are primarily health-related. Hard to get, but worth knowing about.
Self-funding: Paying privately gives you the most choice and flexibility.
Council top-ups and Deferred Payment Agreements: Brief mention, with a link to your council's adult social care page.
Companionship and Respite Care
At some point in time, your regular care worker will be taking time out or to go on holiday. Also, an accident or out of the blue medical condition can create sudden need for this type of care. Here, in Reliable Community Care Services, we are happy to provide planned short-term, long term and time-limited breaks for your loved ones in the comfort of your own home.
Whether you want to be accompanied to an appointment at the hospital or dentist, trips away, or supported with your household chores, shopping, food preparation, taking a walk or even for someone to chat to, share hobbies, go to the cinema or someone simply to have a chat, Reliable Community Care Services is here to lend a helping hand to assist and support you.
Dementia/Alzheimer’s Care
People with dementia may struggle in a new environment and may function better in the comfort of their own home ..Many families will find that homecare is an option. Reliable Community Care Services will be there to help your love ones, to ensure their needs are met.
Emergency Care
We offer care services that ease the transition from hospital to home, helping you settle back in your own environment. Reliable Community Care Services can step in within 24 hours, or even on a shorter notice. We can take the stress and hustle associated with such an emotional time.
Palliative/End of Life Care:
We know that caring for someone can become incredibly stressful and difficult for family members. We will always do our absolute best to support other family members, by pinpointing other services and that may be able to help them at this time, as a part of our ongoing process of enhancement of your life. We thrive on opening doors for our clients and enabling them free access to some aspects of their lives, they might have lost over the years.
House Keeping
Reliable Community Care Services will assist you with your everyday jobs like cooking, washing, ironing, cleaning, vacuuming, shopping, light dusting to deep cleaning is always there to help you.
Bespoke Care Packages
We are here to help, to care and support all your needs and wishes, to make your life even more enjoyable, in your own home environment. Our painstakingly selected, professional, and diverse staff will adjust to your ways and likes – we will support you and your close ones, exactly the way you want it.
Our bespoke Care Plans and Risk Assessing tools, will allow us to match our staff to your preferences, uniqueness, as well as your culture needs and believes. We recognize, how important to our clients their habits are. We strongly advocate and emphasize the importance of our clients’ norms and their preferred ways of certain things in their homes being done in particular ways. No problem! We specialize in doing exactly that.
Above all else, we provide you with reassurance that our caring and compassionate care-workers will be with you day after day whatever your needs are. All of our care workers are fully trained and vetted through the DBS Service to comply with Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulatory standards. References are always obtained to ensure a safe and effective service delivery to all our clients.
As a Company, we will continuously improve our quality of service delivery, through listening to our service users, their circles of relatives and advocates, as well as our staff, in order to learn from them by providing bespoke training and skills. We are always supportive, compassionate and proactive whilst always promoting only best practice, including working in Partnership with multi-disciplinary health professional teams; adhering to our philosophy of caring and our core values. We offer an “on-call” emergency service to deal with issues that arise out of normal office hours.
Whether you would like to visit the theatre, shopping, your local restaurant, pub for lunch, having friends over, visiting your place of worship, celebrations, traditions or just a visit to the Park.
We all take pleasure from different things but sometimes an injury, medical condition or even responsibility of the family home can get in the way. Our job is to understand what makes life good for you. Then suggest ways we can help you achieve it through our differing services on offer.