Home Help Service

Home Helps provide domestic and social care services to people in their own homes.  The Home Help Service makes a major contribution to the overall development of community care by enabling people to remain in their own homes for as long as possible, and thus avoid or delay the need for admission to hospital or residential accommodation.

These circulars provide guidance to the HSC on the provision of Home Help services and how a person should be financially assessed to determine how much they should be charged for the service.