As the need for accessible homes continues to rise, landlords across the UK face a growing
challenge: how to make properties suitable for disabled or less mobile tenants without...
There’s long been a quiet but growing tension at the heart of the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) and wider disability grants system: how can a funding model created nearly 30 years ago keep up with the pace of today’s health and social care demands?
Successive Governments always bring with them high hopes for some significant changes in provision for UK social care. Unfortunately, Rachel Reeves’ recent Spending Review has only allowed for an extra £4bn to Adult Social Care, widely seen as a drop in the ocean for what’s needed.
According to new research, more disabled people live in local authority or housing association properties than anywhere else and half of these don’t have the adaptations to make their homes suitable.