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Breaking barriers and providing better pathways to DFG Funding
The Disabled Facilities Grant Assessment Summit is your opportunity to be a part of the solution for providing timely access to DFG assessments for older and disabled people with non-complex needs. This June you can join dedicated professionals to explore the opportunities for taking a different approach.
Aim and purpose
There is a strong relationship between the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) and social care assessment because of the duty of housing to ‘consult’ with social care on the type of adaptations that are relevant to meet the needs of older and disabled people.
Since the publication of ‘Adaptations Without Delay’ many local authorities have started to look at how to provide timely access to the assessments that ultimately lead to a Disabled Facilities Grant. However, there continues to be long waits for assessments in many local authorities, particularly for those older and disabled people whose situations are not considered complex or urgent.
If we are to achieve the Government’s aspiration (set out in the Social Care Reform White Paper) around the DFG being a cornerstone for helping people to remain in their homes, then we need to look at how we overcome these issues of long waits for assessments.
This summit will give practitioners, managers, and commissioners across housing, health and social care the space to debate the current approach to how we support older and disabled people with non-complex needs access to the Disabled Facilities Grant. By understanding the current barriers, delegates will explore the opportunities for taking a different approach that will provide more timely access to the DFG.
Using the learning from the Summit, Foundations will work with stakeholders to develop real-world solutions to the issues identified during the day.
Benefits of attending
- Learn, share and understand the current barriers of providing timely access to an assessment for older and disabled people with non-complex needs.
- Identify changes that could be implemented in your local authority to improve access to assessment for older and disabled people with non-complex needs.
- Have your own thinking challenge about how you approach the duty to consult on what adaptations are necessary for older and disabled people needing adaptations.
- Opportunity to attend workshops where you will be able to discuss and debate solutions to the real-world problems experienced by local authorities wanting to provide more timely access to adaptations for older and disabled people with non-complex needs access to the Disabled Facilities Grant.
- Hear from keynote speakers on the need to change our current approach.
Workshops include:
- Self and remote assessment: What are the barriers and opportunities for self and remote assessment?
- Trusted assessor model: How do we make trusted assessor models work effectively for the DFG process?
- Role of manufacturers and suppliers: What are the risks and benefits of involving manufacturers and suppliers in reducing assessment demand on social care?
- ‘Mop-up’ assessment services (waiting list management) and do they work: What are the strengths and weaknesses of this approach and how do you make it a sustainable approach to managing waitlist issues?
- Assessment of need Vs Assessment for what is necessary and appropriate: Explore and unpick the legal status of different assessments pathways that might lead to a DFG and are these causing unnecessary delays in accessing the DFG.
- Redefining what we mean by ‘consultation’: What are the risks and opportunities for redefining how we consult across housing and social care for older and disabled people with non-complex needs?
