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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
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SECTION I: CARE AND SUPPORT
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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
SECTION I: CARE AND SUPPORT
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SECTION I: CARE AND SUPPORT
Chapter 34: Care and support services
A. CARE AND SUPPORT
1. What is care and support?
Box I.1: Glossary: Care and support
Box I.2: Directions, guidance, circulars and publications
2. Healthcare and social care
3. The needs assessment
4. Personal budgets
5. Direct payments
B. CARE AND SUPPORT IN CARE HOMES
6. What is a care home?
Box I.3: Healthcare and nursing care: England and Wales
7. How to apply for help
8. Choice of home
9. More expensive care homes
C. COMMON RULES
10. Continuity of care and cross-border placements
Box I.4: Adult social care: Scotland
Box I.5: Community care and residential care: Northern Ireland
11. If you are not satisfied with your care services
Chapter 35: Paying for care and support
A. COMMON RULES
1. Charging for care and support
2. Couples and maintenance
3. When charges cannot be made
4. If you cannot afford to pay the charge
Box I.6: Charging in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
B. PAYING FOR NON-RESIDENTIAL CARE AND SUPPORT
5. Introduction
6. Disability-related benefits and expenditure
C. PAYING FOR CARE HOMES
7. Introduction
8. Capital and income
Box I.7: Capital and income
9. Key points of the financial assessment
10. Personal expenses allowance
11. Treating your home as capital
12. Deferred payment agreements
13. Deprivation of capital
14. Meeting the costs of your own home
15. What happens if you move out?
Chapter 36: Benefits in care homes
1. What benefits are you entitled to?
2. Disability benefits
3. Universal credit housing costs amount and housing benefit
4. Universal credit
5. Income-related ESA
6. Pension credit
7. Special help for war pensioners
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Disability Rights UK. "SECTION I: CARE AND SUPPORT." In
Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed April 1, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266963CITANCHOR.
Disability Rights UK. "SECTION I: CARE AND SUPPORT." In
Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed April 1, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266963CITANCHOR.
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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
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