Statutory are services that are paid for and provided by the government e.g. National Health Service (NHS), school nursing, social services etc.

The ‘voluntary sector’ refers to organisations whose primary purpose is to create social impact rather than profit. It is often called the third sector, civil society or the not-for-profit sector.

Services in the private sector are funded by charges made for the services they provide. They are usually run as a profit making business.

Informal care is generally defined as the unpaid care provided to older and dependent persons by a person with whom they have a social relationship, such as a spouse, parent, child, other relative, neighbour, friend or other non-kin.