Government delivers extra £50 million home adaptation funding
Additional funding to help older and disabled people live more independently in their own homes
£50 million to be provided this year to adapt people’s homes
Overall, adaptation grants support 50,000 people a year and help people to be discharged from hospital quicker, cutting waiting times
Fifty million pounds has been allocated to local authorities from today to help older people and those with disabilities live safely and independently in their own homes.
Delivered jointly by the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, eligible disabled people of all ages will be able to apply to their local authority for a grant to adapt their home to better meet their needs.
Available to homeowners, private renters and those in social housing, the funding will be delivered through the Disabled Facilities Grant and comes on top of the annual £573 million already provided to local authorities for home improvement services.
Since 2010, there have been almost half a million home adaptions, backed by £4.8 billion in funding.
Minister for Adult Social Care, Helen Whately, said:
“If you're older or living with a disability, a well-adapted home gives you independence and safety.”
“Living in your own home can be impossible after illness or injury without changes like wheelchair ramps, handrails or a stairlift”
“This new funding will help thousands more people have homes fit for their needs - and faster. When time is of the essence, this fund will help local authorities do urgent and smaller-scale adaptations more quickly.
“Sometimes all that stands in the way of a patient going home from hospital is a simple home adaptation - so this this is good news for patients and hospitals too. It'll mean more people can recover from a hospital stay at home, and more NHS beds for patients who need them.”
Announced as part of the Next Steps to Put People at the Heart of Care plan, the £50 million is the first tranche of a £102 million investment over two years, that will enable local authorities to provide additional services that are agile, make minor adaptations quickly and support speedier hospital discharge.
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Felicity Buchan, said:
“We want everyone to have high quality, safe, and suitable homes so they can keep living more independently, including people leaving hospital care. This funding provides councils with additional resource to support those in need and builds on the funding already in place."
Providing suitable adaptations to homes, such as wheelchair ramps, handrails, stairlifts or specialist equipment, will mean that when someone is medically fit to be discharged, they will have somewhere safe to be discharged to, freeing up hospital beds for those who need them.
As a result, this will help to reduce waiting times, which will be important as the health service approach the winter months, when pressure on the NHS increases.
The Disabled Facilities Grant is one of a range of housing support measures that a local authority can use to help enable people to live independently and safely at home. The government also provides guidance to local authorities to help them effectively and efficiently deliver home adaptations and best serve the needs of older and disabled people in their local communities.
NOTES TO EDITORS:
More detail for local areas can be found on the Foundations website. Foundations is the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities funded national body for Disabled Facilities Grant and Home Improvement Agencies – the website includes many case studies from local authorities who are using their Disabled Facilities Grant funding in innovative ways, with strong partnerships between local health, care, and housing partners.
The Next Steps to put People at the Heart of Care plan can be found here.
Further information on how local authorities can effectively and efficiently deliver Disabled Facilities Grant funded adaptations to best serve the needs of local older and disabled people is contained in the Disabled Facilities Grant guidance.
Local councils manage their social housing waiting lists and must give people who need to move for medical or welfare reasons priority. Our £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme will deliver thousands of affordable homes to buy and rent, including new supported housing for disabled people.
For a full list of funding allocations by local authority, please see below:
Annex A: Disabled Facilities Grant allocations for additional £50m in 2023-24
Tier 1 Authorities
2023-24 Allocations (additional £50m)
Cambridgeshire
£442,369
Cambridge
£73,948
East Cambridgeshire
£60,216
Fenland
£106,001
Huntingdonshire
£130,200
South Cambridgeshire
£72,002
Derbyshire
£689,180
Amber Valley
£126,919
Bolsover
£98,957
Chesterfield
£119,698
Derbyshire Dales
£52,507
Erewash
£92,691
High Peak
£48,426
North East Derbyshire
£71,526
South Derbyshire
£78,452
Devon
£719,491
East Devon
£133,616
Exeter
£85,002
Mid Devon
£71,365
North Devon
£96,957
South Hams
£76,751
Teignbridge
£131,563
Torridge
£73,955
West Devon
£50,279
East Sussex
£708,867
Eastbourne
£153,161
Hastings
£179,463
Lewes
£106,970
Rother
£160,977
Wealden
£108,293
Essex
£1,037,124
Basildon
£125,537
Braintree
£92,185
Brentwood
£36,661
Castle Point
£72,548
Chelmsford
£96,126
Colchester
£126,710
Epping Forest
£84,748
Harlow
£79,025
Maldon
£53,414
Rochford
£47,125
Tendring
£202,484
Uttlesford
£20,556
Gloucestershire
£597,064
Cheltenham
£89,400.00
Cotswold
£115,870
Forest of Dean
£87,104
Gloucester
£111,424
Stroud
£72,047
Tewkesbury
£121,217
Hampshire
£1,243,668
Basingstoke and Deane
£136,352
East Hampshire
£147,506
Eastleigh
£115,162
Fareham
£74,954
Gosport
£78,761
Hart
£73,133
Havant
£173,924
New Forest
£111,427
Rushmoor
£105,001
Test Valley
£120,026
Winchester
£107,420
Hertfordshire
£721,107
Broxbourne
£73,640
Dacorum
£86,169
East Hertfordshire
£67,413
Hertsmere
£68,446
North Hertfordshire
£83,175
St Albans
£67,627
Stevenage
£73,914
Three Rivers
£58,051
Watford
£66,916
Welwyn Hatfield
£75,752
Kent
£1,671,543
Ashford
£90,062
Canterbury
£117,663
Dartford
£59,647
Dover
£128,564
Gravesham
£102,763
Maidstone
£131,503
Sevenoaks
£113,711
Folkestone and Hythe
£131,363
Swale
£254,546
Thanet
£298,604
Tonbridge and Malling
£117,298
Tunbridge Wells
£125,816
Lancashire
£1,458,541
Burnley
£237,569
Chorley
£76,700
Fylde
£107,960
Hyndburn
£95,633
Lancaster
£187,109
Pendle
£96,406
Preston
£146,637
Ribble Valley
£34,294
Rossendale
£101,226
South Ribble
£67,551
West Lancashire
£125,955
Wyre
£181,497
Leicestershire
£388,065
Blaby
£57,923
Charnwood
£98,307
Harborough
£44,709
Hinckley and Bosworth
£50,518
Melton
£30,079
North West Leicestershire
£66,367
Oadby and Wigston
£40,161
Lincolnshire
£608,768
Boston
£55,211
East Lindsey
£177,969
Lincoln
£74,344
North Kesteven
£79,453
South Holland
£67,398
South Kesteven
£85,104
West Lindsey
£69,288
Norfolk
£799,108
Breckland
£116,024
Broadland
£88,456
Great Yarmouth
£117,630
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
£155,568
North Norfolk
£118,203
Norwich
£112,874
South Norfolk
£90,351
North Yorkshire
£446,328
Craven
£55,130
Hambleton
£47,241
Harrogate
£72,051
Richmondshire
£26,955
Ryedale
£57,803
Scarborough
£143,227
Selby
£43,920
Nottinghamshire
£688,188
Ashfield
£91,365
Bassetlaw
£115,592
Broxtowe
£85,861
Gedling
£103,770
Mansfield
£124,397
Newark and Sherwood
£101,158
Rushcliffe
£66,043
Oxfordshire
£581,025
Cherwell
£108,197
Oxford
£124,034
South Oxfordshire
£135,292
Vale of White Horse
£143,017
West Oxfordshire
£70,484
Somerset CC
£432,185
Mendip
£88,097
Sedgemoor
£95,330
South Somerset
£122,637
Somerset West and Taunton
£126,120
Staffordshire
£873,069
Cannock Chase
£91,730
East Staffordshire
£101,256
Lichfield
£96,788
Newcastle-under-Lyme
£149,661
South Staffordshire
£98,312
Stafford
£132,812
Staffordshire Moorlands
£154,786
Tamworth
£47,721
Suffolk CC
£610,951
Babergh
£66,339
Ipswich
£119,315
Mid Suffolk
£60,904
West Suffolk
£126,923
East Suffolk
£237,468
Surrey
£886,200
Elmbridge
£85,252
Epsom and Ewell
£68,523
Guildford
£70,323
Mole Valley
£77,384
Reigate and Banstead
£112,276
Runnymede
£76,283
Spelthorne
£82,307
Surrey Heath
£77,139
Tandridge
£45,583
Waverley
£74,398
Woking
£116,728
Warwickshire
£447,189
North Warwickshire
£69,333
Nuneaton and Bedworth
£144,164
Rugby
£62,586
Stratford-on-Avon
£83,895
Warwick
£87,210
West Sussex
£821,551
Adur
£64,592
Arun
£165,649
Chichester
£150,194
Crawley
£91,838
Horsham
£122,495
Mid Sussex
£101,494
Worthing
£125,287
Worcestershire
£537,834
Bromsgrove
£90,425
Malvern Hills
£59,588
Redditch
£83,104
Worcester
£68,082
Wychavon
£109,244
Wyre Forest
£127,390
Tier 1 Authorities Total:
£17,409,415
Unitary Authorities and London Boroughs
2023-24 Allocations (£50m)
Barking And Dagenham
£162,033
Barnet
£251,704
Barnsley
£294,681
Bath And North East Somerset
£125,820
Bedford
£123,101
Bexley
£258,724
Birmingham
£1,129,415
Blackburn With Darwen
£185,841
Blackpool
£228,180
Bolton
£312,207
Bournemouth Christchurch & Poole
£307,008
Bracknell Forest
£84,502
Bradford
£448,266
Brent
£463,953
Brighton And Hove
£201,827
Bristol, City Of
£307,884
Bromley
£213,138
Buckinghamshire
£354,796
Bury
£181,205
Calderdale
£264,661
Camden
£91,338
Central Bedfordshire
£168,126
Cheshire East
£204,384
Cheshire West And Chester
£321,841
City Of London
£3,236
Cornwall
£658,684
County Durham
£609,785
Coventry
£364,894
Croydon
£261,141
Cumberland
£379,089
Darlington
£92,787
Derby
£202,732
Doncaster
£242,769
Dorset Council
£362,343
Dudley
£562,322
Ealing
£324,997
East Riding Of Yorkshire
£269,303
Enfield
£325,997
Gateshead
£184,219
Greenwich
£249,288
Hackney
£151,020
Halton
£174,058
Hammersmith And Fulham
£130,506
Haringey
£233,757
Harrow
£150,223
Hartlepool
£106,621
Havering
£179,477
Herefordshire, County Of
£197,963
Hillingdon
£445,991
Hounslow
£261,743
Isle Of Wight
£198,258
Isles Of Scilly
£2,560
Islington
£169,265
Kensington And Chelsea
£83,754
Kingston Upon Hull, City Of
£250,809
Kingston Upon Thames
£132,645
Kirklees
£316,230
Knowsley
£239,673
Lambeth
£146,458
Leeds
£723,042
Leicester
£236,824
Lewisham
£132,545
Liverpool
£742,959
Luton
£140,352
Manchester
£740,206
Medway
£215,591
Merton
£126,721
Middlesbrough
£197,916
Milton Keynes
£110,627
Newcastle Upon Tyne
£237,564
Newham
£248,523
North East Lincolnshire
£281,050
North Lincolnshire
£225,748
North Northamptonshire
£223,539
North Somerset
£206,063
North Tyneside
£163,091
Northumberland
£290,484
Nottingham
£241,575
Oldham
£204,475
Peterborough
£195,147
Plymouth
£245,531
Portsmouth
£179,729
Reading
£104,480
Redbridge
£211,972
Redcar And Cleveland
£156,216
Richmond Upon Thames
£168,040
Rochdale
£260,680
Rotherham
£267,342
Rutland
£23,582
Salford
£305,409
Sandwell
£412,628
Sefton
£420,887
Sheffield
£445,752
Shropshire
£317,752
Slough
£99,536
Solihull
£216,828
South Gloucestershire
£204,108
South Tyneside
£167,405
Southampton
£219,312
Southend-On-Sea
£150,180
Southwark
£147,133
St. Helens
£274,673
Stockport
£251,820
Stockton-On-Tees
£157,474
Stoke-On-Trent
£300,488
Sunderland
£353,874
Sutton
£157,747
Swindon
£113,996
Tameside
£248,632
Telford And Wrekin
£201,288
Thurrock
£115,054
Torbay
£185,749
Tower Hamlets
£202,505
Trafford
£215,530
Wakefield
£378,771
Walsall
£366,734
Waltham Forest
£206,135
Wandsworth
£153,579
Warrington
£193,922
West Berkshire
£180,210
Westminster
£150,890
Westmorland and Furness
£243,120
West Northamptonshire
£223,293
Wigan
£397,415
Wiltshire
£324,072
Windsor And Maidenhead
£90,064
Wirral
£412,184
Wokingham
£93,862
Wolverhampton
£311,632
York
£128,096
Unitary Authorities & London Boroughs Total:
£32,590,585
Overall Total for DFG in 2022-23
£50,000,000.00