If you are a disabled person there may be physical barriers that make it difficult for you to carry out ordinary day-to-day activities in your home. This could include items such as stairs or high-sided baths.
Everyone should have access to normal household facilities and be able to use them. We are committed to helping you or your relatives to get access to those facilities.
The sort of work we can help you with includes
- Providing access to and from your home, e.g. ramps, hardstandings, step lifts;
- Making your home safe for disabled people and others living in your home, e.g. guard rails, safety glass etc.;
- Providing access to your principal family room, e.g. by widening doorways;
- Providing access to bedrooms, e.g. by providing a stairlift or extension;
- Providing access to your lavatory, e.g. by altering bathroom layouts or providing specialist WCs.;
- Providing access to your bath or shower, e.g. by replacing a bath with a wet-floor shower;
- Providing access to your wash-hand basin;
- Enabling you to prepare and cook food e.g. by providing low level kitchen units;
- Improving or providing space heating or heating controls;
- Enabling you to use and control power, light and heat, e.g. by altering the position of light switches and power sockets;
- Enabling you to move around the home to care for another person, e.g. to enable a disabled parent to look after a child.
Telephone 0113 395 7146 for more information.
Minor alterations
If you only need small works such as grab rails, hand rails or lever taps, please contact your local One-Stop or telephone the call centre on 0113 222 4401 .