Housing Strategy for an Ageing Society Announcement

Hazel Blears, Housing Minister Caroline Flint and Baroness Andrews launched Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods: A national housing strategy for an ageing society. To coincide with the launch, the Housing LIN has published a toolkit, 'More Choice, Greater Voice', for local authorities to help policy makers, commissioners, planners working with key stakeholders, including older people, produce and implement their local strategies.

Links

See the ministerial announcement and download the strategy on CLG's website (opens new window)

More Choice Greater Voice - a toolkit for producing a strategy for accommodation with care for older people (February 2008) (pdf - 835Kb) (opens new window)

Published by Housing LIN, February 2008 This document provides a toolkit for undertaking work that will support a whole system approach to planning and developing accommodation and care. It is published by the Housing Learning and Improvement Network at the Care Services Improvement Partnership at the Department of Health and the Department of Communities and Local Government. It is good practice rather than mandatory and has been prepared specifically to accompany the government's new National Housing Strategy for an Ageing Society, to offer guidance for commissioners and providers to enable them to produce accommodation and care strategies for older people.