Local authority
Local council & funding
Your local council arranges and funds adult social care. Find your council and the support it offers, then see how it works for Crossways.
The basics
Your local council and care funding
Adult social care is arranged and partly funded by your local council. They carry out a care needs assessment and a financial assessment to work out what support you can receive and what you contribute.
Crossways sits within West Sussex, so for us that is West Sussex County Council. Use the lookup above to find the council for any address.
How it works
From assessment to funding
Care needs assessment
A free assessment of the help you need with daily living. It decides what care and support you are eligible for.
Financial assessment
A means test of your income, savings and sometimes property, to decide how much you contribute toward your care.
What councils fund
Depending on both assessments, the council may fund some or all of your care, or you may part-fund or self-fund.
Crossways is in West Sussex
For Crossways, your local authority is West Sussex County Council, so all funding questions go through them.
Contact West Sussex adult social care
West Sussex County Council’s Adults’ CarePoint can talk you through assessments, funding and the help that is available.
- Phone: 01243 642121 (Adults’ CarePoint)
- Online: westsussex.gov.uk/adults
Talk to us about fees and funding
We are happy to explain how funding works and what it might mean for you. Get in touch with no obligation.