A Disabled Facilities Grant is an assessed need and means tested grant. It is designed to help towards the cost of adapting your home for assessed need in the simplest and most cost effective way.

A grant is paid when the council considers that changes are necessary to meet your needs, and that the work is reasonable and practical.

What the grant can be given for you can use it for?

A grant can be given for adaptations to let you live safely and independently in your home and/or to provide essential facilities, such as a level access shower, within it.

If you are disabled, types of work might include:
- Widening doors and installing ramps
- providing or improving access into rooms and to bathing facilities - for example, by installing a stair lift or providing a downstairs bathroom
- improving or providing a heating system which is suitable for your assessed needs
- adapting heating or lighting controls to make them easier to use
- improving access into and around your home to enable you to care for another person who lives in the property, such as a child

An Occupational Therapist will look at the difficulties you have and can recommend the type of adaptation(s) required to help you.