Adaptations in Practice: Installer Forum

Name: Adaptations in Practice: Installer Forum
Start: 2026-05-07T08:30:00+0100
End: 2026-05-07T12:00:00+0100
Location: Holiday Inn Manchester Airport by IHG

Thu, 7 May, 8:30am - 12pm BST

Holiday Inn Manchester Airport by IHG

Manchester, United Kingdom

Foundations

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Description

Adaptations in Practice: Installer Forum is a practical event for contractors and installers who want to grow their understanding of home adaptations and build stronger links in the sector.

With input from PROCare, Triton, the Home Adaptations Installer Network and Foundations, it will cover products, installation, Disabled Facilities Grants (DFG) and the wider process behind adaptation work. Whether you already carry out this work or want to do more of it, this is a chance to learn something useful and meet the people behind the jobs.

Why attend

Understand how DFG-funded adaptation work really works;
Hear from ProCare, Triton, the Home Adaptations Installer Network and Foundations;
Learn what good adaptation work looks like in practice;
Build useful links with suppliers, sector experts and others delivering this work;
Explore opportunities in a growing specialist market.

Agenda

8:30 am - 9:30 am

Registration, coffee and breakfast butties
9:30 am - 9:40 am

Welcome and Introduction

This practical, CPD-focused event is designed to do two things: deepen technical knowledge of the products delegates work with every day, and connect that knowledge to the new Competency Framework that Foundations has developed to support Technical Officers in maintaining their competency.
9:40 am - 10:30 am

Overview of DFGs from Foundations and Introducing the Home Adaptations Installer Network
10:30 am - 11:00 am

Coffee and Networking
11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Updates and product demonstrations from Triton Showers and PROCare
12:00 pm - 12:00 pm

Event Close

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Foundations is the government appointed national body for Disabled Facilities Grants (DFGs) and Home Improvement Agencies (HIAs) in England. We sit in a privileged position, working day to day with civil servants and local authorities to turn good policy into real improvements in people’s homes.

Our work spans advice, training, research and hands on support for frontline services. Increasingly, we also play a connecting role, helping practitioners, commissioners and suppliers find each other, share what works and solve problems together. The aim is always the same: make it easier for people to get the right adaptation at the right time.

A big part of that happens through our events. From the buzzing DFG Champions Roadshows to the National Healthy Housing Awards, our gatherings are less about formal speeches and more about honest conversations, shared challenges and lightbulb moments. People come for the content, but stay for the connections.

Foundations is proud to be a trusted space where commissioners, practitioners, suppliers and innovators can meet as equals, united by a shared goal. When the right people come together, homes get safer, lives get better, and independence becomes something everyone can count on.