Help with adaptations and repairs

HomeKey+ offer advice and support for residents living with disabilities who need changes to their home to make it meet their needs. Our Occupational Therapy Team will refer you for these adaptations where necessary. This could be for minor adaptations or specialist equipment, or for a major adaptation.

Examples of major adaptations include: walk in (level access) showers, ramps, stairlifts, extensions and alterations to provide ground floor facilities such as bedrooms and bathrooms.

Disabled Facilities Grant

A means-tested Disabled Facilities Grant is available to homeowners or privately renting tenants who need adaptations costing more than £1,000, up to a maximum of £30,000. Applications in respect of a disabled child are not means tested. The adaptation must be recommended by an Occupational Therapist.

Where the cost of an adaptation exceeds the statutory maximum of £30,000, the Council can provide up to a further £20,000 towards the adaptation. This is discretionary funding and subject to available budget.

Relocation Grant 

A Relocation Grant is available to help homeowners with the cost of moving house, if it is too complex or costly to adapt their current home, and moving to a more suitable property is deemed to be the best option.

The new property must be approved by an Occupational Therapist as being able to meet the long-term needs of the disabled person.

The Relocation Grant is means-tested and has a maximum of £5,000. It can fund moving costs such as estate agent fees, legal costs and removal company costs.

Urgent Works Grant 

An Urgent Works Grant is available for disabled adaptations up to £10,000, where the need for an adaptation is urgent and to minimise high risk to the disabled person and their carers. Urgent Works Grants are not means tested, and the Occupational Therapist must make the referral.

Before you make an application for a grant through HomeKey+ you will need an Occupational Therapy (OT) assessment, as this is needed to identify the adaptations required and to make sure the grant criteria is met. If you have not already been contacted by an OT or OT Assessor, you will need to request an assessment from the our Community Access Team:

• Online: adult social care online- home support 
• Phone: 0300 123 7034