Things you can spend your personal budget on

Your care and support plan is made to meet your needs. It gives you some ideas of how you could choose to spend your budget.  

You can use your personal budget on things that help meet your needs.  

This may be help with housework, shopping, personal care, or get to appointments or out and about. 

Some people use it for: 

  • personal care from a personal assistant 
  • support to get out and about and help you do training, volunteering or work  
  • activities in the community 
  • specialist equipment or technology such as personal alarms 
  • respite care