Home adaptations

Adapting the home to help children and young people participate in their everyday life

As part of our assessment to help children and young people participate in their everyday life, we may recommend that you make some changes to your home.

If you live in privately rented or local authority housing the Occupational Therapist may liaise with your landlord to support recommended changes.

As a homeowner there may be some changes that you would take responsibility for yourself. In a small number of cases, it may be appropriate to carry out more significant adaptations to the property when they are assessed as ‘necessary and appropriate’ and ‘reasonable and practicable’, in which case the Occupational Therapist will work with the local Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) team.

The role of the Occupational Therapist is to make recommendations based on the clinical needs of the child and the rest of the process is carried out by the DFG team, including the final decision on whether an adaptation will be funded through a DFG.

Cerebra have produced a document which provides a good summary of what is involved in the DFG process [PDF 595KB]

For further information regarding home safety, please see our Safety within Home Occupations page.