- Discretionary Trusts
This fact sheet has information about discretionary trusts, a way of making financial arrangements for a relative - including owning a property.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Shared ownership and family investmentThis fact sheet describes shared ownership - including the option of the family funding a share.
- Paying for housing, support and daily living
- Technical information
Family investment in housingThis fact sheet tells you how a family member can provide housing for their relative.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Supported living networksThis fact sheet describes how people can live in their own place in an ordinary area and be part of a support network.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Intentional communitiesThis fact sheet describes schemes set up to house disabled people in a supportive community.
- Joint ownership
This fact sheet tells you how two or more people can own a property together.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Collective ownershipA fact sheet describing how a group of people can own a house together - often for sons and daughters.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Succession and tenancyThis fact sheet tells you about a disabled person's right to stay in a property - rented owned - as their family gets older.
- Basic Info
- Technical information
Renting privatelyThis fact sheet gives detail about renting from private landlords.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Residential careThis fact sheet tells you about residential care - accommodation and support shared with other people.
- Routes to outright ownership
This fact sheet gives an overview of the different ways of buying a place outright.
- Renting social housing
This fact sheet tells you about renting from the council or a registered social landlord (housing association).
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Inheritance and gifted propertyThis fact sheet tells you about ways of leaving money or property to a relative.
- Housing and support options
Extra care and sheltered housingA fact sheet about housing with support - mainly for older people.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Shared Ownership and Help to BuyThis factsheet explains low cost home ownership options
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Renting accommodation to relativesThis fact sheet outlines the limitations and possibilities in renting to a relative.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
8 ways to get a houseA fact sheet describing the ways to get a house.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Ownership through a discretionary trustA fact sheet that describes putting money into a trust - a long-term, secure financial provision for a relative.
- Paying for housing, support and daily living
- Technical information
Buying a house using Support for Mortgage InterestThis factsheet describes how a disabled person can use Support for Mortgage Interest to buy a property.
- Paying for housing, support and daily living
- Technical information
Discretionary Trusts and taxThis fact sheet considers some of the tax implications when you set up a Discretionary Trust.
- Adapting a property
A fact sheet that tells you about adapting a property.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Support tenantsThis fact sheet explains how people with learning disabilities can be supported by a tenant who lives with them.
- Paying for housing, support and daily living
- Technical information
Housing Benefit tenancies - exempt or excluded from restrictionsThis fact sheet explains how some tenancies tenancies are 'exempt' or 'excluded' from the ordinary rules that apply to calculating how much Housing Benefit can be paid in private sector tenancies.
- Deputyship and Lasting Power of Attorney
An overview of Deputyship and Lasting Power of Attorney
- Rights and the law
- Technical information
- Tenancy
Types of Tenancy AgreementsAn overview of Types of Tenancy Agreements
- Rights and the law
- Technical information
Using the Law to Fight CutsUsing the Law to Fight Cuts to Disabled People’s Services is practical guide for campaigners – disabled people, families, carers and local groups (Updated version July 2012)
- Rights and the law
- Technical information
Choice, Contracts and Mental Capacity Act 2005 This Guide is written primarily for staff working with people with learning disabilities and with their families and support networks. We assume some knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
- Paying for housing, support and daily living
- Technical information
Buying, renting and passing on propertyA guide to the different ways a family can arrange housing for a disabled relative.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Shared supported housingThis fact sheet describes a kind of housing where people have their own room in a shared house and get staff support.
- My home and money
- Rights and the law
- Technical information
- Tenancy
Tenancy Agreements for people with learning disabilitiesAn overview of Tenancy Agreements for people with learning disabilities
- Quality and regulation
- Planning and commissioning housing and support
- Policy
- Housing and support options
- Assistive technology
- Paying for housing, support and daily living
- Resources
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Shared Lives and supported lodgingsThis fact sheet describes two ways that someone with a learning disability can live in someone else's family home.
- Easy read
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Buying to rent to a disabled personA fact sheet that tells you about buying a place that you let to a disabled person.
- Bracking 2 (Final).doc
Full text of claim for judicial review of the decision by the Minister for Disabled People made on 6 March 2014 to close the Independent Living Fund (“ILF”) with effect from 30 June 2015, and to transfer funding to the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales, and to local authorities in England. The Claimants are severely disabled people who are current users of the ILF.