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Temporary library closures and changes to opening hours.

Solihull Council has been working closely with health and social care partners across Birmingham and Solihull to develop a Shared Care Record. This is a confidential electronic system containing health and social care information about individual residents.

Solihull Council works with other health and social care organisations to share information that will form part of your Shared Care Record.

Information to help people arriving from Afghanistan to settle, live, work and find local services in Solihull.

Privacy Notice - Looked After Children and Care Leavers Service

Solihull Council has launched a project to understand how connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) might be integrated into the borough’s transport network in the future.

If you do not meet the eligibility criteria for care and support or means-tested support you are a self-funder. This means that you are responsible for paying the full cost of your care.

Direct payments allow you to choose how your care and support is organised.

Personal budgets enable you to choose who you want to provide your care and support and organise it yourself.

Solihull social care services provide care and support to those who need it. People that are not entitled to care and support from Solihull Council social care will need to pay the full cost or make a contribution to the cost of their care.

A financial assessment can help us to understand if you can pay towards the cost of your care and support.

When a person makes a power of attorney they appoint another person or people to make decisions and act on their behalf.

Each one of us has the right to be treated with dignity and respect but sometimes people do not have the ability or the skills to do so.

If another person speaks on your behalf they are commonly known as an advocate.

Care and support assessments are conducted according to a set of national eligibility criteria.

After your needs have been assessed we'll provide you with a care and support plan.

A reablement assessment can help you stay independent, learn new skills and recover from illness or a stay in hospital.

An occupational therapy assessment can help you stay independent and provide information and advice about housing adaptations and equipment to help at home.

If you are caring for someone else aged 18 or over on a regular basis, without being paid for it, you can request a carer’s assessment.

Under the Care Act 2014, assessments are for people over the age of 18 requiring help to live in the best way possible.

Working in partnership with Solihull Council, SCH Wellbeing delivers a range of services designed to keep you happy, healthy, independent, and safe in your own home.

Community Advice Hubs in Chelmsley Wood and Solihull town centre are available every week day to provide information and support about a range of topics including care options, accessing benefits, housing issues and energy efficiency.

If you’re looking for advice, a support group or even something to do, the Solihull Directory can connect you with local and national suppliers and providers.

At some point in your life, you may need help from adult social care. This could be due to your own needs or those of a friend or family member. Any adult over 18 can request support.

An overpayment is caused when you have been paid more housing benefit than you are entitled to receive. An invoice, and possibly other notices, will have been sent to you about the overpayment.

To support Solihull’s Transport Strategy ‘Solihull Connected’ we have developed a Cycling and Walking Strategy for the borough.

Solihull Council will be undertaking safety checks on memorials in Robin Hood, Widney Manor and Woodlands cemeteries from October 2019.

We help children get to their nearest school by providing a small number of bus routes

Find and pay for parking in Knowle.

We are pleased to offer a wide selection of eBooks and eAudiobooks.