fees and funding for 1:1 direct support
As Standard - Hourly rate 16.50
Enhanced Public Holidays - Hourly rate 24.75
Enhanced Public Holidays - Hourly rate 24.75
Available in the form of home visits or support out in the community (i.e. shopping or attending appointments) - Support will include a variety of practical and therapeutic support, as well as support with personal care / medication where required.
This competitive rate is charged per hour, regardless of the day or time (except on enhanced public holidays - see below)
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Enhanced Public Holidays - Hourly rate 24.75
Enhanced Public Holidays - Hourly rate 24.75
Enhanced Public Holidays - Hourly rate 24.75
Enhanced public holidays per year - on these 4 days (Christmas day, Boxing day, New Year's day & Easter Sunday) will be charged at an additional rate per hour in line with enhanced rates of staff pay on these days.
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Funding Options
Enhanced Public Holidays - Hourly rate 24.75
Funding Options
Anyone in receipt of a Personal / Personal Health / Integrated Personal Budget or Direct Payments will be entitled to use these to cover the cost of services.
Where prospective clients are not already eligible for such financial support, Supported Steps can assist with arranging a financial assessment with the local authority; OR, optio
Anyone in receipt of a Personal / Personal Health / Integrated Personal Budget or Direct Payments will be entitled to use these to cover the cost of services.
Where prospective clients are not already eligible for such financial support, Supported Steps can assist with arranging a financial assessment with the local authority; OR, options for payments / payment plans may be agreed with our team
funding support
Personal Budgets & Direct Payments
A personal budget is for your social care and support needs. A direct payment is one way of managing these budgets, by giving you the money directly to purchase the agreed care and support you need rather than the council arranging it for you.
Personal Health Budgets
A personal health budget is for your NHS healthcare and support needs. A direct payment is one way of managing these budgets, by giving you the money directly to purchase the agreed care and support you need rather than the council arranging it for you.
Integrated Personal Budgets
An integrated personal budget is for both your healthcare and support needs and social care needs. A direct payment is one way of managing these budgets, by giving you the money directly to purchase the agreed care and support you need rather than the council arranging it for you.
Arranging a financial assessment - Individuals
If you think you, or someone you know, needs help to cope day-to-day, the first step is to get a needs assessment from your local council. The needs assessment is free and anyone can ask for one. Contact social services at your local council and ask for a needs assessment. You can call them or do it online.
Arranging a financial assessment - Carers
If you're a carer, you may be entitled to receive a personal budget after having a carer's assessment to see what might help make your life easier.
A Carer Personal Budget (also known as a Carer Direct Payment) is a sum of money paid by a council's Adult Social Care department to help to a carer to pay for things which will help them in their caring role. It allows a carer to have more control over how they are supported.
To get a personal budget you will have to have had a carer's assessment. A carer's assessment is free and anyone over 18 can ask for one.
Self-funding options
If you're not entitled to any health or social care funding, Supported Steps can discuss alternative payment options that may be available to you.
Get in touch with a member of our team for further information.
Who can get it?
The right to have a personal health budget applies to people who are:
- adults receiving NHS continuing healthcare (NHS-funded long-term health and personal care provided outside hospital)
- people with mental health problems who are eligible for section 117 after-care as a result of being detained under certain sections of the Mental Health Act (this does not include detention under section 2 of the Act)
How is your personal health budget worked out?
If you are able to have a personal health budget, then together with your NHS team you will develop a personalised care and support plan.
The plan sets out your personal health and wellbeing needs, the health outcomes you want to achieve, the amount of money in the budget and how you are going to spend it.
A care coordinator, who will be your first point of contact in case you have any concerns, should be identified in the planning process.
What is the difference between a personal health budget, a personal budget, an integrated personal budget and a direct payment?
- A personal health budget is for your NHS healthcare and support needs.
- A personal budget is for your social care and support needs.
- An integrated personal budget is for both your healthcare and support needs and social care needs.
- A direct payment is one way of managing these budgets. It's when you get the money directly to buy the agreed care and support you need rather than the council arranging it for you.
Managing your personal health budget
A personal health budget can be managed in 3 ways, or a combination of these.
1. Notional budget
No money changes hands. You find out how much money is available for your assessed needs and together with your NHS team you decide on how to spend that money. They will then arrange the agreed care and support for you.
2. Third party budget
An organisation legally independent of both you and the NHS (for example, an independent user trust or a voluntary organisation) holds the money for you, and also pays for and arranges the care and support agreed in your care plan.
3. Direct payment for healthcare
You get the money to buy the care and support you and your NHS team agree you need. You must show what you have spent it on, but you, or your representative, buy and manage services yourself.