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What do Home aids and adaptations handle?

  • Applications from council tenants for minor works
    • In-house assessment
       
  • Applications from council tenants for major works
    • Essex County Council Social Care Direct Scheme assessment
       
  • Applications from any resident within the borough who privately owns, leaseholds or rents a house, bungalow, flat, houseboat or caravan with an occupant who is registered as disabled
    • In-house via the Disabled Facility Grant (DFG)

 

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