The Disabled Facility Grant Policy 2025-2028 policy enables us to provide a range of assistance to frail, elderly, vulnerable, disabled adults and children to adapt their home to meet their needs to remain living as independently and safely for as long as possible.
This may be through:
- Adaptations to improve access into and around the home, which is available to homeowners, social or privately rented property. Adaptations may include works such as level access showers, stairlifts, through floor lifts, provision of ground floor bedroom/bathroom facilities as an example.
- Assistance may also be available to tackle house condition that pose a significant risk of harm to the occupiers, such as hoarding.
Our Disabled Facility Grant Policy includes details of:
The types of assistance we may make available:
- Mandatory Disabled Facility Grant
- Discretionary Disabled Facility Top Up Grant
- Discretionary Grant to Assist Adult Social Care
- Discretionary Disabled Persons Relocation Grant
The circumstances in which persons will be eligible for assistance:
- How we will calculate the amount of any assistance awarded
- The conditions that will apply to the provision of assistance
- How and in what circumstances any assistance made may be repaid
If you are over 18 and think you need adaptations to your home to meet your needs to stay independent, please contact us:
AdultSocialCare@peterborough.gov.uk or 01733 747474 option 4 to request an assessment by an Occupational Therapist.
If you have a child at home who is struggling to access essential services in the home such as the bedroom or bathroom, then please ask your health professional or social worker to raise a referral to the occupational therapy team to request an assessment.