- raise the profile about the housing and care needs and aspirations of older people and people with disabilities
- act as a champion for housing with care organisations and, in particular, promoting innovations in Extra Care Housing and other forms of specialist housing
- offer unrivalled access to tools that support the way you improve existing stock and housing related care and support services for older and vulnerable people or deliver new ones
- help you to respond to, inform and influence policy and practice developments and what people say about service quality
- provide you with an opportunity for effective learning through our national and regional networking activities, and
- enable you to benefit from the latest research, thinking and ideas from the field to help raise standards and improve your ‘offer’.