Irrespective of how fees are funded, even if fully supported and funded by the local authority, the personal choice of care provider is entirely yours.

The social services should never offer you only a choice of local authority care homes as your personal choice and preference is a very important part of this decision and the local authority must operate under a government choice directive.

At Northwood we have trained nurses on duty 24 hours each day, which local authority owned homes do not have.

A wrong choice could prove detrimental if the staff are not trained or qualifued to meet the specific care needs of the individual and it will be quite traumatic if this leads to a need to move again later.

We always recommend that you consider all of your options very carefully and that you take into account a well established reputation for delivering quality care as this is nore important that just the top show physical features of a property.