New Law Will Put Adaptations at Risk

Housing departments will be given sole responsibility for stumping up the cash to pay for adaptations services, under proposals in the draft Care and Support Bill. In a move that sector experts warn will undermine the government’s own attempts to integrate housing and social care, new legislation is threatening the funding of existing adaptation services. Around £180 million a year from the government in disabled facilities grant is traditionally topped up by various council pots, including social services money in the form of grants or loans to meet the costs of adaptations. As a result of the proposal, however, housing departments would have to shoulder the full cost of making adaptations to older and disabled people’s homes because shared funding would be restricted.  Read more on Inside Housing.