Applicants for Disabled Facilities Grants (DFG) should be referred by the council’s Social Services Occupational Therapy Service or Ealing’s NHS Partners. Please contact 020 8825 8000.

Major adaptations are arranged by our Repairs and Adaptations Service (RAS) incorporating Ealing Home Improvement Agency and funded by the Better Care Fund and Capital Programme.

The following types of work, when recommended for a disabled person by the occupational therapist, are eligible for grant provided they are necessary, appropriate, reasonable and practical, having regard to the age and condition of the property:
- Making the building or dwelling safe
- Facilitating access to and from the building
- Facilitating access to or providing a bedroom
- Facilitating access to the principal family room
- Provision of a room containing a bath or shower or facilitating the use of such a facility
- Provision of a room containing a WC or facilitating the use of such a facility
- Provision of a room containing a wash hand basin or facilitating the use of such a facility
- Facilitating the preparation and cooking of food (only if used by the disabled person)
- - Providing or improving a heating system
- Facilitating the use of power, light or heat by altering the same or by providing additional means of control
- Facilitating access and movement around the dwelling to enable the disabled person to provide care for another person