Introduction One can get a grant from one’s council if one is disabled and need to make changes to one’s home. For example if one: One might need to: To get a grant, you or someone else living in the house must: An applicant who is below the age of 18 does not qualify for […]
Disabled Facilities Grants and the Better Care Fund Read More »
We think it logically means each adaptation, not a set of them for a person’s specific needs
This question needs to be broken down: the only things that make it into a care plan of any sort are things which a professional accepts is part of what’s required to meet the needs to an adequate appropriate standard. That’s the first thing. If this is a question as to who should be paying
What Happened C was 63 years old, and had had health difficulties since the age of 38. In 2019 she had her right leg amputated above the knee, resulting in her being wheelchair bound. She was a secure tenant of a garden maisonette, and the only way C could get into her home was for
R (on the application of Glynis McKeown ) v Islington LBC (2020) Read More »
This was a case in which the complainant (A) complained that Stafford Borough Council (Stafford) miscalculated her financial contribution in respect of a disabled facilities grant (DFG) resulting in a delay in implementing a suitable scheme. As a result, her husband remained in residential care longer than necessary. A complained that this separation resulted in
Resources – disabled facilities grant – duty- power In deciding whether or not to approve a disabled facilities grant (DFG) for purposes under s23(1) Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, local housing authorities were not entitled to take resources into account, save to the extent that they were expressly authorised or required to do
Birmingham County Council, ex p Taj Mohammed [1998] 3 CCLR 441 (QBD) Read More »
Disabled facilities grant – adaptations – necessary or appropriate The Court of Appeal has overturned the High Court’s ruling that it was reasonable and lawful for a local authority decline a disabled facilities grant, because it deemed the proposed works to be neither “necessary nor appropriate” B’s oldest son, D, suffered from dyspraxia
B v A Metropolitan Borough Council (Unreported) (4th February 2004) (CA) Read More »