Who Pays for Care and How Is It Funded? - Download your FREE Guide today

Navigating the complexities of health and social care funding can be overwhelming, especially when you're trying to secure the best possible support for yourself or a loved one. That's why we've created this comprehensive guide to help you understand the different funding options available and how they apply in various care settings.

Why Download This Guide?

This free resource breaks down:

  • Social Care Funding: Learn the eligibility criteria, how means-testing works, and how assets like your home may or may not be included in financial assessments.
  • Self-Funding: Understand what happens when you have assets over £23,250, and what your responsibilities are in terms of care costs.
  • Funded Nursing Care: Find out when the NHS covers nursing care in a care home and what this might mean for your finances.
  • Continuing Healthcare (CHC): Discover why this funding option is known as the NHS's "best-kept secret," and how you can navigate its complex and challenging criteria.
  • Section 117 Aftercare: Explore how mental health aftercare funding applies if you've been detained under the Mental Health Act, and what ongoing support is available.

Whether you’re exploring care for yourself, a family member, or supporting clients, this guide gives you the critical information you need to make informed decisions about care funding.

Download this guide today and gain clarity on who pays for care and how it’s funded!


Here at Safeguarding Futures we are asked so many questions about the way Health and Social Care works in England and Wales and there is one word that constantly comes up to describe the system and that is MINEFIELD.

This complicated and broken system is daunting enough to navigate for those of you who are already on a journey with your loved ones: whether they be adults with learning or physical disabilities or someone with a progressive condition such as dementia in all its devastating and cruel forms.

This document aims to give you an overview of the different funding types and the criteria for each one.