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Summary

This Good Practice guide, originally published in November 2004, has been amended to include a change in the law relating to childrens' means testing which came into effect in December 2005.

The primary purpose of this document is to advise local authorities on how they can establish a first class service which can deliver adaptations to the homes of disabled people in order to meet their needs and statutory entitlements.

The likely audience for the guide will be:

• Senior managers in local authorities and other related service organisations responsible for organising the adaptations service.
  
• Staff members who are responsible for:
• • identifying and assessing the needs of disabled people of all ages;
  • making recommendations about appropriate responses to meet the assessed needs;
  • preparing specifications and making the other practical arrangements to put those recommendations into practice; and
  • administering the systems for providing financial support, including Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG).

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