Care and Repair is a Home Improvement Agency within Peterborough City Council. It assists older, vulnerable and disabled adults and children to maintain and adapt their homes. This enables independent living and ensures people's homes are warm and safe. The Care and Repair Team also deliver aids and adaptations that help to prevent falls and accidents in the home.
Adapting a home can be very expensive. A grant can, depending on certain conditions, help to meet all or some of the cost. The Care and Repair team can help you access funding from council in line with the Disabled Facility Grant Policy. You can find out more about the policy on the council’s Disabled Facility Grant Policy page.
This includes supporting you in obtaining funding for home adaptations for disabled facilities. Funding can be used for installing stair lifts, level access showers, ramps and in some cases, small extensions.
Grants can help with the installation of boilers and central heating.
In certain situations, grants also support people with disabilities to move house. Or it can also support with hospital discharge, or with deep cleaning and home de cluttering.
Care and Repair also installs minor aids and adaptations following Occupational Therapy referrals. This includes grab rails and half steps.
Care and Repair caseworkers will be your main point of contact. Work that they can do includes:
Care and Repair surveyors work with vetted building contractors and equipment suppliers. The surveyors carry out the following roles:
The Handy Person scheme offers support to homes occupied only by vulnerable, older and/or disabled people.
The scheme can help maintain and repair the home. They can also assist people to continue to live independently in their home.
They mainly offer support with small non-urgent repairs.
You can find out more on the Handy Person Specification.
To contact the Handy Person Scheme call 01733 863860
