Adult Social Care - Information Leaflets
Leaflet library for Adult Social Care information.
This brochure provides an overview of West Berkshire Council's adult social care information leaflets and booklets.
If you would like:
- to talk to someone about care and support
- a paper copy of any of these leaflets
- information in an alternative format or translation
please contact Adult Social Care on: 01635 503050, or email: adultcare@westberks.gov.uk.
Click the leaflet headings below to find further details:
- Adult Social Care - Working with you to understand your needs and circumstances
- Adult Social Care - Working with you to understand your needs and circumstances - Easy Read
- Adult Abuse is everybody's business
- Adult Abuse is everybody's business - Easy Read
- Adult Social Care: Customer Charter
- West Berkshire Autism Partnership Board
- Care homes and agencies - Berkshire Care Directory
- Care homes - West Berkshire Council
- Carers information booklet - Do you look after someone?
- Carers Information gathering form - request an assessment
- Charges for your social care
- Charges for your social care - Easy Read
- Complaints - We are listening
- Complaints - Easy Read version
- Deputyship - Support to complete forms
- Disabled Facilities Grants
- Emotional Wellbeing- Your pocket guide to local Mental Health services
- Extra care housing schemes
- Extra care housing and associated costs
- Hospital Discharge - care after leaving hospital in West Berkshire
- Managing with Deafness and Hearing Loss
- Managing with Sight Loss
- Personal Budgets info from West Berkshire Council (often referred to as a direct payment)
- Personal Budgets info from West Berkshire Council (often referred to as a direct payment) - Easy Read
- Resource Centres - WBC
- Shared Lives
- Shared Lives - Service User Guide - Easy Read version
- Shared Lives - GDPR Guide - Easy Read
- Single Handed Care service
- Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Monitoring and Response Service
- Adult Social Care Transitions Team Information
- Your right to know - requesting personal information under the Data Protection Act 1998
- What do we do with your data?
Adult Social Care - Working with you to understand your needs and circumstances
This leaflet explains the ways in which we help with care and support.
https://www.westberks.gov.uk/adultcare
Leaflet owner: Adult Social Care
Adult Social Care - Working with you to understand your needs and circumstances - Easy Read
This leaflet explains the ways in which we help with care and support.
Leaflet owner: Adult Social Care
Adult Abuse is everybody's business
This leaflet explains what to do if you suspect a vulnerable adult is being abused.
An easy read version is also available below.
Leaflet owner: Safeguarding Team
Adult Abuse is everybody's business - Easy Read
This leaflet explains what to do if you suspect a vulnerable adult is being abused.
You can raise a safeguarding alert online
Leaflet owner: Safeguarding Team
Adult Social Care - Customer Charter
What you can expect when you contact Adult Social Care - what our team will do and what we ask from you.
https://www.westberks.gov.uk/asc-customer-charter
Leaflet owner: Adult Social Care
West Berkshire Autism Partnership Board
This pack is for adults who have either received a diagnosis of an Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) or for people who haven't received a formal diagnosis but suspect they might be autistic. Knowing what information and support is on offer and how to find it can be difficult.
www.westberks.gov.uk/autismsupport
Leaflet owner: WB Autism Partnership Board
Care homes and agencies - Berkshire Care Directory
Care homes & Home Care Agencies in the Berkshire area
Care Quality Commission monitor, inspect and regulate health and social care services. Find inspection reports including ratings to help with choosing the right care.
Booklet published for 6 Unitary Authorities
Care homes - West Berkshire Council
Use the links below to access information on the homes & leaflets.
www.westberks.gov.uk/carehomes
Leaflet owner: Service Manager Responsive Care Providers
Carers Information Booklet - Do you look after someone?
Web version of information for carers booklet including Help for Carers from West Berkshire Council and other organisations including the Reading and West Berkshire Carers Partnership hub.
www.westberks.gov.uk/carerssupport
Booklet owner: Adult Social Care
Carers Information gathering form - request an assessment
Carers assessments and working out what support you need. This document provides a range of questions/prompts that may help you consider your caring role.
Booklet owner: Adult Social Care
Charges for your social care
Use the links below to access copies of the leaflets.
Link here : https://www.westberks.gov.uk/chargesforyourcare
For information on direct payments/personal budgets see page below
Leaflets owner: Diane Herd
Charges for your social care - Easy Read
This leaflet explains how we work out if you should pay towards your care and support.
It is a combined Easy Read version of:
- Guidance Notes - Charging for residential and nursing care homes
- Guidance Notes - Charging for non-residential care services
Leaflet owner: Diane Herd
Complaints - we are listening
How to complain about or comment on adult social care services.
Download the leaflet above, or complete online.
www.westberks.gov.uk/complaintsaboutcare
Leaflet owner: Alison Lewthwaite
Complaints - Easy Read version
How to complain about or comment on adult social care services.
Leaflet owner: Alison Lewthwaite
Deputyship - Support to complete forms
Staff in West Berkshire Council's Deputyship Team can offer support to complete the Deputyship application form if you are unable to complete the form.
There is a cost for this service.
- Deputyship Application - £408
Email: deputyship@westberks.gov.uk
https://www.westberks.gov.uk/ascmanagingfinances
Leaflet owner: Senior Deputyship Officer
Disabled Facilities Grants
Disabled Facilities Grants (DFGs) of up to £30,000 are available for work that's 'necessary and appropriate' to help a disabled person live more independently in their own home. The grants are available to both home owners and private tenants.
Tel: 01635 519680
https://www.westberks.gov.uk/disabledfacilitiesgrants
Leaflet owner: Home Improvement Agency Officer
Emotional Wellbeing - Your pocket guide to local Mental Health Services
A leaflet which folds down to a credit size card.
https://www.westberks.gov.uk/general-health-wellbeing-resources
Leaflet owner: Rachel Johnson, Communities and Wellbeing
Extra care housing schemes
Use the links below to access copies of the leaflets
Providing modern accommodation, on-site care and support facilities for people with a social care need.
Leaflet owner: Respective Housing Associations
Extra care housing and associated costs
There are three parts to the cost of living in an extra care scheme:
- cost of housing, payable to the housing provider - the cost of buying, renting or shared ownership of your home
- service charge, payable to the housing provider - for home maintenance and communal facilities
- care and support costs, payable to West Berkshire Council
www.westberks.gov.uk/extracarehousing
Leaflet owner: Diane Herd
Hospital discharge - care after leaving hospital in West Berkshire
A leaflet that explains what happens with your care after you leave hospital.
https://www.westberks.gov.uk/leavinghospital
Leaflet owner: Ann Tubbs
Managing with Deafness and Hearing Loss
An information handbook for deaf and hard of hearing residents of West Berkshire.
Call Sensory Needs Team on 01635 503704
Email : sensoryneeds@westberks.gov.uk
www.westberks.gov.uk/sensoryneeds
Leaflet owner: Helen Hickey
Managing with Sight Loss
An information handbook for Visually Impaired residents of West Berkshire.
Call Sensory Needs Team on 01635 503704
Email : sensoryneeds@westberks.gov.uk
www.westberks.gov.uk/sensoryneeds
Leaflet owner: Helen Hickey
Personal Budgets from West Berkshire Council (often referred to as a Direct Payment)
Use the links below to access information leaflets
Direct Payments and other ways to use your Adult Social Care Personal Budget.
https://www.westberks.gov.uk/directpayments
Leaflet owner: Mary Froom
Personal Budgets from West Berkshire Council (often referred to as a Direct Payment) - Easy Read
This leaflet explains about Direct Payments for adults in Easy Read format.
https://www.westberks.gov.uk/directpayments
Leaflet owner: Mary Froom
Resources Centres - WBC
Use the links below to access Centre information & leaflets.
/ 01635 520150
/ 01488 682601
/ 0118 943 2074
www.westberks.gov.uk/communitydaycentres
Leaflet owner: Resource Centre Managers
Shared Lives
Some people may need help to live independently and stay well. This leaflet explains what West Berkshire Shared Lives means for people in West Berkshire.
www.westberks.gov.uk/sharedlives
Leaflet owner: Shared Lives Team
Shared Lives - Service User Guide - Easy Read version
Some people may need help to live independently and stay well. This Easy Read leaflet explains what West Berkshire Shared Lives is and how the service works for the user.
www.westberks.gov.uk/sharedlives
Leaflet owner: Shared Lives Team
Shared Lives - GDPR Guide - Easy Read
Some people may need help to live independently and stay well. This Easy Read leaflet explains how West Berkshire Shared Lives keeps your information.
www.westberks.gov.uk/sharedlives
Leaflet owner: Shared Lives Team
Single Handed Care service
This leaflet explains how our team can deliver a person-centred assessment of an individual's moving and positioning needs with the aim to enable one carer to deliver their care.
Leaflet owner: Review Team, Adult Social Care
Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Monitoring and Response Service
Telecare, monitoring and response services to help support vulnerable people at home.
https://www.westberks.gov.uk/communityalarmsandtec
What is the best system for you? The Which website provides good information along with NHS England website
Leaflet owner: Adult Social Care
Adult Social Care Transitions Team Information
Transition planning for disabled young people.
Use this link to access the Local Offer
Information available on the West Berkshire Directory
https://www.westberks.gov.uk/adultcaretransition
Leaflet owner: Magdelena Hove
Your right to know - Requesting personal information under the Data Protection Act 1998
This handout explains your rights, as a user of Council services, how to access your personal information and to be provided with information about the uses to which it is put.
Leaflet owner: Legal Services
What do we do with your data?
We collect information to help us to arrange your care. We only share your information with organisations we work with to meet your needs
Click here to find out more about how Adult Social Care use the data you give us.