This document summarizes the services provided by Staying Put, an organization that has helped over 2,000 people with home adaptations and improvements and nearly 7,000 with safe discharges from the hospital over the last 5 years. It is celebrating its 30th anniversary. It discusses funding sources like Disabled Facilities Grants and Better Care Funding that help support services for home adaptations, hospital discharges, and other assistance. It also provides an example of how different funding sources were pooled to support home adaptations for a client named Mr. P following a hospitalization.

1. Presentation Title
Presented by John Smith
September 2013
DFG Champions Roadshow
Presented by Lesley Roman
October 2017

2. Croydon Staying Put
Celebrating 30 years
1987 - 2017

3. Background • In the last five years Staying
put has helped:
• Over 2,058 people with home
improvements & adaptations
• Over 6,947 with safe
discharge home after hospital
stays
• Gardening services for over
450 older or who have a
disability
Staying Put was set up
in 1987 by Hyde
Housing
1 Project worker …….
Thirty years on
Staying Put has eight
members of staff
3 Caseworkers
2 Surveyors
1 Handyperson
1 Support Officer
1 Manager

4. Disabled Facilities
Grant
Better Care Fund
Croydon’s Budget for 2017-18
£2.2 million
Most common adaptation
requests:
•Level Access showers
•Ramps
•Ceiling Track Hoists
•Stair lifts
•Thru Floor Lifts
•Step Lifts

5. DFG’s
• Identify if person is on a
passport benefit- check
Council Tax
• If yes we arrange a joint
visit for Caseworker to do
application & Surveyor to
draw up plan
• OT provides a spec for
the work
• OT does not need to visit
until sign off
Reducing
timescales

6. Reducing
timescales
Use of IT
•Electronic DFG
applications forms
•Email documents
•Accept email approvals to
plans

7. Interest Free Loans
Croydon has a budget of
£700k for the provision of
their loans
Most Common works:
Renewal/ Repairs of Roof
Renew/ upgrade electrical
installation
Replacement windows
Damp proofing
Replace boilers

8. Better Care Fund
• Hospital Discharge
Service
• Enhanced Staying Put
Service (Reablement)
• Home from Hospital-
Shopping & Cleaning.
Provided by Age UK
What else it
funds ….

9. Hospital Discharge Service
Better Care Fund
provides £130k
•Keysafes
•Bed Moves – to allow
a hospital bed
•Furniture moves for
micro living
• Blitz cleans
• Declutter/hoarding
• Locks
• Minor plumbing – hot
water

10. Enhanced Staying Put Service
(Reablement)
Type of help we give
•Hoarding issues
•Arranging decluttering
via contractors
•White goods
•Beds & bedding
•Micro living
• Flooring
• Renew doors/locks
• Keysafes
• Emergency
heating/water repairs
• Emergency electrical
repairs
• Grab rails
• Small ramps

11. Other Services
Handyperson Service
• Installs keysafes
• Minor repairs
• Puts up curtain rails
• Builds small flat pack
furniture
• Fits grab
• Minor plumbing repairs
Gardening Service
We work in partnership with
CMG – who provide housing
for people with learning
disabilities.
Their residents do gardening
with supervision, and our
clients get a great service

12. Challenges …………..Hoarding
These situations are becoming more common

13. Toilet
Lots of bleach bottles !

14. Hallway
???

15. Kitchen
????

16. More Clutter
Further rooms

17. Outcome
•Removed and disposed of over
three tonnes of rubbish.
•Removed and disposed of
cooker, fridge, washing
machine, sofa, two armchairs
and approximately two hundred
bottles of urine.
•Cleaned, tidied and disinfected
throughout.
Cost £2000 – client contributed
£1000 – BCF funded the rest

18. Case Study Mr P
Mr P had been known to the
agency as his home required
major improvements
Following a hospital
admission meant he now
also required adaptations to
the property
Pooled resources :-
Interest only loan
Disabled Facilities Grant
BCF- Reablement Budget

19. Interest only loan required
Windows, roof repairs

20. Living to be made into a bedroom
Gas Fire to be removed

21. Existing kitchen
Ceiling down

22. Internal damage to ceiling
New Shower room

23. Front access
Needs wheelchair access

24. Front access
Steps up to the pavement

25. Old kitchen – new shower room
Work in progress

26. In progress
Floor in old first floor bathroom replaced

27. New ceiling
Ceiling in new shower room

28. Level access shower
Sited in old kitchen

29. New kitchen area
Bedroom adjacent with hospital bed and wheelchair
access

30. Front Access
Semi Permanent Ramp to provide wheelchair access
to street level

31. The Better Care Funding
enables us to :-
Take a more holistic
approach
Offers flexibility to deal with
individuals complex needs