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This blog by Wendy Wells, Head of Agency Managed, Policy and Business Implementation at The Guinness Partnership, explores the significance of Starts at Home Day 2024 in highlighting the value of care and support services, emphasising the difference a secure home can make in people's lives, by delving into the work of the Dementia Housing Working Group (DHWG).

To coincide with Starts At Home Day 2024 - an opportunity to celebrate the value of care and support services and the difference that having a safe and secure place to call home can make to people’s lives - we're delighted to share a Member update from Places for People Living Plus, featuring their Young Parents Pathway (YPP) supported accommodation service.

To coincide with Starts At Home Day 2024 - an opportunity to celebrate the value of care and support services and the difference that having a safe and secure place to call home can make to people’s lives - we're delighted to share how the Acquisitions Team at Places for People supported an autistic customer to find a suitable home that met their needs and gave them every opportunity to live a happy and independent life.  

To coincide with Starts At Home Day 2024 - an opportunity to celebrate the value of care and support services and the difference that having a safe and secure place to call home can make to people’s lives - we're delighted to share a Member update from GreenSquareAccord, featuring Andy's story of becoming a resident at Furlong House.

To coincide with Starts At Home Day 2024 - an opportunity to celebrate the value of care and support services and the difference that having a safe and secure place to call home can make to people’s lives - we're delighted to share a Member update from Anchor, featuring Olive House: 50 stylish apartments of rented housing with onsite care.

This blog by Elspeth Shaw, former Occupational Therapist and retirement housing resident, explores the journey of finding a retirement home after 40 years of moving between tied housing.

Work by Audit Scotland, informed by those with experience of digital exclusion, finds not enough is being done to tackle the harms caused by digital exclusion at a time when more services are moving online, and makes a series of recommendations to public bodies.

Research by Manchester Metropolitan University finds that a secure, permanent home, access to transport links and green spaces, and support to maintain relationships with family and community are essential to support people with a learning disability and commissioners when planning ahead for older age.

The Town and Country Planning Association have produced a new report setting out the high-level preconditions necessary to create a healthy new town and reflecting on some of the key lessons that need to inform future thinking.

The Centre for Social Justice, in collaboration with Randal Charitable Foundation, identify housing and digital exclusion as 2 of 6 challenges for government and policy makers, and make a series of recommendations to tackle loneliness among older people.