Social Care Services
Every person is different. Their care and funding should reflect their individual needs.
Care at home
For the person who needs support, their family or their carer. Free to use, and private to your account.
- You record
- Each task the person needs help with, how long it takes and how often, including difficult days.
- We work out
- Which visit each task falls in, how long every visit needs to be and how many carers it needs.
- You get
- A certificate stating visits a day, minutes per visit and any weekly or monthly services, ready for a council assessment or review.
Care homes
For managers who need each resident's fee to reflect their real care, not a single standard rate.
- You set up
- Your running costs, pay rates and staff rota, once. Update them whenever they change.
- We work out
- Income tax, National Insurance, your pension contribution and holiday cover, so every care hour is costed at its true price.
- You get
- A numbered certificate for each resident with the weekly fee, the staff hours behind it and the gap against the council's offer.
What you take away
Every assessment ends in a certificate you can download, print and take to a meeting. A QR code links back to the full working in your account.
Social Care Services
Example
Home-care assessment certificate
Jean Taylor
Lives at home, with help from her daughter
4 home care visits a day, 4 hrs 15 min in total
- Morning — 90 minutes, 2 carers
- Lunchtime — 45 minutes
- Teatime — 45 minutes
- Bedtime — 75 minutes, 2 carers
Other services needed
- Cleaning and keeping the home safe — 60 minutes, once a week
- Shopping and collecting prescriptions — 90 minutes, once a week
- Escort to podiatry — 90 minutes, once a month
Provided by family
- Laundry and changing bedding — 45 minutes, twice a week
Social Care Services
Example
Menu of Care certificate
Margaret Smith
Seaview Care Home, certificate SCS-CARE-MS-0001
- Weekly fee for her care
- £1,296.56
- Care staff time
- 46.7 hours a week
- Council's offered rate
- £750.00
- Shortfall
- £546.56 a week
Care needs
- General care & supervision: 14.0 staff hours a week
- Needs two people to transfer (hoist / standing aid): 14.0 staff hours a week
- Walking assistance / falls risk supervision: 4.7 staff hours a week
- Full help washing, dressing & bathing: 7.0 staff hours a week
- Continence care (pads, toileting): 7.0 staff hours a week
How the Menu of Care works
Set up your home
Beds, running costs, pay rates and your rota. Tax, National Insurance, your chosen pension percentage and holiday cover are worked out from the pay you enter.
Assess each resident
Tick their needs, from two-person transfers to night care. A staffing check compares every current resident's care with the hours on your rota.
Issue the certificate
A numbered certificate with the weekly fee, NHS-funded nursing care where it applies, and the gap against the council's offer. Publish an anonymous copy if you choose.
The rules we work to
The calculators use current national figures, so a certificate stands up when a council checks it.
- National Living Wage of £12.71 an hour for workers aged 21 and over, from 1 April 2026
- Income tax, National Insurance and workplace pension rules for 2026/27, including Scottish income tax
- NHS-funded nursing care of £267.68 a week at the standard rate, from 1 April 2026
- Home care visits of at least 30 minutes unless a shorter visit is agreed, following NICE guidance
- Care Act eligibility outcomes for England, with Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland pointed to their own rules
More help
Search by area, specialist care and whether the home has room.
Search home-care agencies by the areas they cover and the care they give.
How to ask for an assessment, check a care plan, request a review or complain.
Who we are and how we look after the information you record.