Disability services
There are times in most people's lives when they need an extra helping hand. Because of this, we offer a range of services for elderly and disabled residents, including grants to help make adaptations to people's homes, concessions on travel, council tax and housing benefits, as well as making sure our offices are as accessible as possible and our website is easy to use.
Find out about our accessible services by following the links below, or download our leaflet from the menu on the right where you will find further information about how we are trying to ensure our services are accessible for people with disabilities and the elderly:
Financial support
Home and housing options
- Housing repairs and adaptation (Financial help to adapt your home)
Everyday life and leisure
- Help with rubbish and recycling collections
- Bus passes
- Wheelchair accessible vehicles
- Keys for use in public conveniences
- Disabled parking spaces - council car parks
- Leisure passes - for leisure centres and swimming pools in South Oxfordshire
- Access guide for leisure centres and activities
- Community transport
- Safe journey card - use this card with your bus ticket and/or concessionary pass to advise the driver of your needs
Alternative formats
If you have difficulty reading any council literature, we can arrange for it to be translated into Braille, large print, CD or sent via email.
Listen to this website with Browsealoud
You can now listen to the council’s website using Browsealoud, a free tool that reads web pages to you and highlights words as it reads them. Many other websites offer this facility, including Google and the BBC.
To do this you will need to download and install the Browsealoud program on to your computer. You will also need speakers, or headphones.
Go to the Browsealoud website. This will take you to a download page.
Last reviewed: 08 - 04 - 2013
