Disabled Facilities Adaptations Service

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Disabled Facilities Adaptations Service
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Disabled Adaptations

• Legislative Background
• Service Background
• Criteria and Priority System
• Who accesses the service
• Staffing the service
• Budgeting the service
• Benchmarking
• Issues from Review Recommendations

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Legislative Background
Legislative Background

• 1970 Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act
• 1989 1996 Housing Grants, Construction and
  Regeneration Act
• 1990 Community Care Act
• 1996 Disability Discrimination Act

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Background To The Service
Background to the Service

• Legislation indicates that Grants should be given
  for the following improvements
• Facilitating access to the property
• Making the dwelling safe
• Giving access to main family room (living room)
• Giving access to a room usable as a bedroom
• Giving access to a bathroom and to facilities
  within
• Giving access to the kitchen if the applicant is
  the main preparer of food .

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Background To The Service (2)
Background to the Service (2)

• Improving heating to meet the needs
• Providing access to control for power, heat and
  light
• Improving access for a disabled person to move
  around the dwelling in order for them to care for
  another person

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Priority System
Criteria/Priority System

• Eligibility Criteria
• Substantially Disabled (unable to carry out most
  of your daily living tasks)
• Significantly Disabled (unable to carry out some
  of your daily living tasks)
• Priority 1
• Clients who are terminally ill or whose discharge
  from specialist units is delayed because of lack
  of adaptation
• Priority 2
• For clients with severe degenerative conditions
  or where their discharge from Residential Care is
  delayed
• Priority 3
• To give independence in their activities of daily
  living for a disabled person

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Who Accesses The Service
Who Accesses the Service

• Service available for all
• Residents of Bolton regardless of tenure
• Registered or registerable as disabled
• Meets eligibility criteria

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Staffing Roles
Staffing Roles

• 1 Project Leader
• 2 Admin Support
• 2 Occupational Therapist (1 Temporary)
• 1 Disability officer
• 2 Housing Regeneration Officers
• 4 Building Surveyors

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Budgets
Budgets

• The budget 2006/2007 Totals 2.2m
• 1.2m in Private Housing (Funded via grants)
• 1m in Public Housing (Funded via HRA)
• Actual Spend
• 1.4m in Private Housing
• 1.3m in Public Housing.

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Benchmarking
Benchmarking

• There are no nationally set Performance
  Indicators however Bolton at Home have set Local
  Performance Indicators. These are LPI 28 A,B and
  C and are reported quarterly to the Performance
  Team. They are also reported to the Service
  Development Team on a Bi-Annual basis.
• Number of days Enquiry to Completion

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ODPM RECOMMENDATIONS
Bristol/ DCLG Proposals

• Mandatory DFG to be retained
• The ring-fenced budget to be retained
• The mandatory grant limit to be increased to
  50,000, index-linked to build costs
• Means testing for adaptations for children to be
  ended.
• The practice of applying the test of resources to
  cases where the cost of works is less then 4,000
  should be reviewed.
• Replace the existing test of resources with one
  broadly based on Fairer Charging for Care
  Services.
• The capital limits used in the test of resources
  should be increased to 50,000

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Bristol/DCLG Proposals (2)

• Where an insurance or court decision after the
  DFG includes a settlement for the cost of
  adaptation, an appropriate sum to be repaid to
  the DFG budget.
• to investigate methods of recovering costs of
  adaptations over 5000.
• The scope of the mandatory DFG to be extended.
• Eligibility for assistance to be extended to
  cover those with challenging behaviour.
• Stair-lifts to be re-designated as equipment.
• Housing Associations to use their own resources.
• VAT to be abolished on all works of adaptations.