Getting adult social care support – the process

Information about the different steps involved in exploring your adult social care support needs.

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The first step in exploring your adult social care support needs is to gather information from our webpages.

Step two in the process for exploring your adult social care support needs is to fill in an online wellbeing self-assessment.

Step three in the process of exploring your adult social care support needs is to decide whether or not to ask us for an in-depth assessment.

Following your assessments, if you are eligible for ongoing social care support, we allocate you a personal budget.

If you have been allocated a personal budget for adult social care services we can work with you to plan how the budget could be used.

We consider several factors when deciding if you are eligible for adult social care support.