Capability Scotland - SDS Brokerage

Self-Directed Support Brokerage and Payroll Service

At Capability Scotland, we can help you choose the best social care that's right for you. 

Our service offers you independent advice and support to get the most from your self-directed support budget.

Your self-directed support budget is a different way of arranging and paying for the assistance you need. It lets you choose what's important and how you want your care and support to be provided in order to enable you to achieve your brilliant outcomes.

Your local authority or health and social care partnership will decide how much money you need for your support. This money is sometimes called your 'individual' or 'personal' budget. We can support you in managing your budget including making payments and running payroll on your behalf.

We can help manage and support all options that local authorities must offer to you:

• Option 1: the individual or carer chooses and arranges the support and manages the budget as a direct payment.
• Option 2: the individual chooses the support provider and then the chosen provider manages the budget.
• Option 3: Dumfries and Galloway Council chooses and arranges the support.
• Option 4: a mixture of options 1, 2 and 3.

Should you choose Option 1, as a third party we can help support you to become an employer and to recruit your own personal assistant.