Aims:
To be a one stop shop for advice, information, support and advocacy for disabled people with housing problems in the Scottish Borders.
Services provided:
Housing advice covers a range of options including:-
- Assessment of needs
- Operating a register to better match vacant properties with disabled people who would be best suited to the house
- Keeping up to date records on all available and planned barrier free and wheelchair housing in the Borders
- General advice services on all aspects of housing services
- Working with individual disabled people in assessing aids and adaptations which may make a property more suitable to their needs
- Opening doors to the funding needed when disabled people want access to other forms of housing tenure, including ownership and shared ownership, which can mean a disabled person on benefits buying their own home
- Working with housing providers, architects, builders and individuals on barrier-free-aids, adaptations and layouts
- Provide computer training.
Additional information:
Housing Advisors can carry out home visits and prepare a housing plan.
Address
The Surgery
1 Orchard Park
St Boswells
TD6 0DA
Phone: 01835 823 122
Email: dphsborders@msn.com