What is a Disabled Persons Housing Service (DPHS)?
A local Disabled Persons Housing Service (DPHS).
ICOD are presently putting together plans to open and operate a local DPHS covering the Inverclyde area, more details will appear on this site as they become available.
Below is some general information on Disabled Persons Housing Services that has been extracted from the website of HoDis, the National Disabled Persons Housing Service Ltd. www.hodis.org.uk
- a specialist housing advice service, which has access to a range of resources, in order to provide and/or coordinate all aspects that may be required to solve complex housing problems.
- available to all disabled people, irrespective of income, age and housing tenure.
Individual Disabled Persons Housing Services can be very different. The existing services illustrate a range of different structures and emphases adopted, which reflect local circumstances.
DPHS staff tend to be specialists in disability and housing, and have excellent contacts with other agencies and organisations. A DPHS often brings together housing design and occupational therapy expertise to provide a uniquely integrated holistic service.
Accreditation and Certification.
In order to obtain accreditation and certification from HoDis, the National Disabled Persons Housing Service Ltd. a local DPHS is required to provide the following core services:
- Customer centred approach. This includes:
- Ensuring empowerment, choice, dignity and control by disabled people
- An holistic, person centred approach to the housing needs of the disabled person
- Full consideration of the needs of the disabled person, including identifying possible options
- A casework approach
- Involvement in co-ordination of multi-agency responses
- Disability Housing Register, consisting of:
- a database of accessible (purpose built and adapted property)
- a register of disabled people who require accessible housing
- a service of matching people to property.
- Adaptations service
- information, advice and support on adaptations options
- the practical services and funding needed to carry them out
Many DPHSs (another name may be used in some localities) provide additional services. Further information about these individual services is available by request from HoDis.
