Glossary - F

Term	Description
Fair Access to Care Services	Department of Health guidance for councils providing a framework for setting eligibility criteria for adult social care. Its aim is to achieve fairer and more consistent eligibility decisions across the country.
Fairer Charging for Care Services	Department of Health guidance for councils who decide to charge for any non-residential services on how to design reasonable and fair charging policies. It seeks to ensure greater consistency in charging policies across the country.
Financial Assessment	An assessment of an individual's finances to identify how much they will be expected to contribute to the cost of their care and support services.
Floating Support	A housing-related support service that is not tied to any specific accommodation. Rather, it is ‘attached’ to the person, and follows them if they move to another address. It only lasts as long as the person needs it then ‘floats away’. The service user does not have to live at a specific address to receive the support.
Funding Source	A budget, which can be used to pay for part of a person's support arrangements. Most funding comes from local or central government, and has specific conditions on what the money can be used for.
FWi	Framework i – the database used for service user information.

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Care Choices - Information about available care options and help to identify relevant care providers.
Care Quality Commission - Get free, independent reports on the quality of your local homes and care services to help you make an informed choice.
Carewise - Services and activities to support your care needs and general wellbeing.
Counsel and Care - National charity working with older people, their families and carers to get the best care and support.
Disability Living Allowance - Information from Gov.uk.

This page was last reviewed 28 March 2013 at 13:47.
The page is next due for review 24 September 2014.