What is a Disabled Facilities Grant?
A means-tested council grant of up to £30,000 in England for home adaptations a disabled person needs — level-access showers are the most common award. Applications go through your borough, usually after an occupational therapist assessment; children's applications are not means-tested. Start early: the process takes months.
The DFG is the main public funding route for accessible bathroom work, and every borough we cover — Croydon, Bromley, Merton, Kingston, Wandsworth, Greenwich, Lewisham, Sutton — administers its own scheme. The sequence: contact the borough's adult social care or housing-adaptations team, an OT assesses what the person needs, the council approves a schedule of works, contractors quote against it, the grant pays.
Means-testing looks at the disabled person's (and partner's) income and savings — not the wider family's — and adaptations for children skip the test entirely. The £30,000 cap covers most bathroom adaptations comfortably; a level-access shower conversion sits well inside it.
Where we fit in: we quote against OT schedules line by line, format paperwork the grant teams accept, and build to the specification exactly — because grant-funded work is inspected against it. The honest caveat on timing is that the pipeline (referral, assessment, approval) is measured in months, so the application should start before the bathroom becomes urgent, and we tell families this at the first call.
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