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Paying for Social

Care

Help with Costs

If you’re an adult paying for long-term social care, there’s lots of information available to help you figure out how to manage the costs.

Get support with:

  • Personal budgets and self-directed support
  • Deferred payment agreements
  • Self-funding
  • Paying for residential care
Visit Barking and Dagenhams website

Access to Care Funding

To understand your rights and learn about potential funding support, call Disability Right’s Personal Budget Helpline on 03309950404. The line is open Tuesday and Thursdays 9:30-1:30pm.

Visit Disability Rights UK

Long Term Care Funding

For more impartial, expert advice, visit Money Helper‘s pages on funding long term care.

Visit Money Helper

Support for Carers

  • Advice for Carers

    If you are regularly looking after someone who is ill or disabled, you may be entitled to financial support as a carer. Visit the Barking and Dagenham website to find out more about the Carer’s Allowance and the other forms of support you can claim.

Find out more here

  • Carers of Barking and Dagenham

    They offer information and support for local carers, including welfare and benefits advice to make sure you are getting the benefits you’re entitled to.

Find out more here

Parenting and Childcare

  • Healthy Start Scheme

    If you’re at least 10 weeks pregnant, or you have at least one child that’s under 4 and are on a low income, you might be eligible for the Healthy Start Scheme. Through the scheme, you can get a Healthy Start card with money on it that can be used to buy healthy food and milk.

Find out more here

  • Support with Childcare Costs

    You might be able to get financial support with childcare costs. There are multiple government offers to help with childcare costs. Whether you have toddlers or teens, you can get support.

Apply here

  • Baby Banks

    Little Village provides equipment, clothes and toys to families with children under 5 years old.

Find your closest Baby Bank here

  • Free School Holiday Activities

    The Holiday Activity and Food (HAF) Programme is free to children and young people who live or go to school in Barking and Dagenham and are eligible for benefit-related free school meals, with paid places available for everyone.

Find out more here

Family Support

For whichever stage you are in your life, the Money Helper website has a lot of information about finances and support. Click on the boxes below for more help and information.

  • Becoming a Parent

    Find out how to budget for your new addition or paying for childcare, what your maternity rights and paternity pay and when you return to work.

  • Illness and Disability

    There is support available to manage better financially and lead a more independent life by adapting your home, making travel easier or general day-to-day help.

  • Divorce and Separation

    It doesn’t matter what your situation is. You may be divorcing or separating; have children or not; own your home or rent. There are guides that will cover your specific situation.

  • Death and Bereavement

    Visit these guides to help you prepare – including how to make a will, how to plan around inheritance tax and general guidance on getting your affairs in order.

Maximise your Income

Maximise your income by checking what benefits you’re entitled to. £19 billion in benefits go unclaimed every year. Try our easy to use benefits checker today.

Visit the Benefits page here