If you are an unpaid carer and you are eligible for formal support through your local council, you can decide how much control and responsibility you want to have for arranging and managing that support.<\/p>\n
You should be offered four different options for choosing how much control and responsibility you want to have.<\/p>\n
These options are designed to give you the level of responsibility you would like.<\/p>\n
Some people want to be responsible for all aspects of their support, and are comfortable managing money directly.<\/p>\n
Some people would prefer someone else to organise their support for them, while taking their views into account.<\/p>\n
Some people are in the middle, and want some responsibility, but would like someone else to handle other parts of their support.<\/p>\n
To enable you to have as much or as little responsibility as you want, your social worker must ask you how involved you want to be in organising your support. They will give you four options to choose from.<\/p>\n
To help you decide, you can find out more about each of the four options in the articles linked at the bottom of this page.<\/p>\n
You can find examples of how carers have used the different options in the Case study<\/strong> at the bottom of this page.<\/p>\n You can get help to think about what option is best for you from your local Carers\u2019 Centre.<\/p>\n You can find details of your local Carers\u2019 Centre here.<\/a><\/p>\n Read more about each of the Options, and how they work, in the next articles:<\/p>\n Option 1<\/a><\/p>\nNext steps<\/h2>\n