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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 25 February 2022

In this week’s edition, we highlight a new Inspirational Achievement from Golden Lane Housing about their award-winning housing scheme for residents with a learning disability, Cordage View, Grimsby.

We also draw attention to a guest blog we published earlier this week by Methodist Homes’ (MHA) Director of Communities, Jonathan Mace on their partnership with Barclays’ Bank Digital Eagles programme.

You can now also access the recording to this week's highly successful HAPPI Hour on 'Levelling Up: Calling for post-Covid vision for housing, care and support'. The session explored a future vision for supported living, delivering better housing outcomes for older people, engaging and involving residents to improve their wellbeing, and how this can be best achieved in a more integrated way. 

Other news that caught my interest this week, included:

• Llywodraeth Cymru Welsh Government: Written Statement: National Care Service – Expert Group
• Welsh Government £60m boost for Housing with Care Fund
• Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport: Loneliness annual report: the third year
• Savills: Spotlight: UK Senior Living
• Think local act person/Local Government Association: Improving Direct Payments Oversight

And did you notice something different about last week’s HLINks? We have created an attractive new graphic and functional layout to freshen up our weekly bulletin and help you pick the news items that matter to you!

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly round-up week-ending Friday, 18 February 2022.

This week saw the launch of the Legrand White Paper, by the Good Governance Institute outlining how digital can be embraced across public services in a smart and innovative way and references both the TAPPI Inquiry Report and RE-COV study.

Staying on the technology front and the TAPPI developments in particular, the Dunhill Medical Trust (DMT) have announced the recruitment process for the Co-Production and Engagement Lead to support the exciting next phase of TAPPI.

To coincide, we are pleased to publish DMT’s Sarah Allport’s blog revealing how the evidence gathered by the Inquiry in Phase 1 is built upon and used to create a widely accepted Framework which embeds the recommended TAPPI Principles within a transformational change programme.

In other news, we also published a guest blog by Better Living’s Margaret Gilbert in which she explores how the “Better Living Community Hub” could provide an opportunity for diverse and intergenerational social encounters between older adults & adults with learning disabilities.

Other news that caught my interest this week, included:

• The Economy 2030 Inquiry: Under Pressure
• Places for People: Places for People and the University of Cambridge launch new report into self and custom build homes
• Cambridge University Press: Co-research with older people: a systematic literature review
• ARCO: Integrated Retirement Communities for older people

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 11 February 2022.

This week saw the publication of the government’s Integration White Paper, Joining up care for people, place and populations. We’re pleased to see the emphasis on place and references to housing and know it’s not just about ‘vertical’ integration within the NHS but also ‘horizontal’ integration across wider housing and care economies to get better outcomes for local populations.

At the start of 2021, Central & Cecil (C&C) published findings of research by over 200 C&C residents to seek their attitudes towards isolation and loneliness. A year on, we are pleased to promote a new report and accompanied blog by their Managing Director, Julia Ashley who returns to find out if residents have become ‘used’ to the presence of Coivd-19.

We also published a guest blog earlier this week by Orbit’s Francis Burrows who reflects on the impact of the pandemic on their residents living in their older people's housing properties. Francis will also be speaking at our next HAPPI Hour, Levelling up our communities: calling for a post-covid vision for housing, care and support on Tuesday, 22 February.

And, if you missed this week's HAPPI Hour, the recording and slides from the webinar with NASP and HACT on social prescribing are now available. Over 270 people registered for the session to hear about the work of NASP and listen to variety of personal and community perspectives on social prescription and housing. A big thank you to the speakers from Stonewater, Bromford, We Build the Future and Manchester University.

Other news that caught my interest this week, included:

• Construction News: New housing minister named in reshuffle
• LGA: Housing for people with a learning disability or autistic people, case studies
• Policy Connect: The ATech Policy Lab – a new venture in Assistive and Accessible Technology from Policy Connect
• Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport: Loneliness evidence review
• IFS: Does the cap fit? Analysing the government’s proposed amendment to the English social care charging system
• Think local act personal: Inspiring ways to improve personalisation in registered services

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If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email  ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 4 February 2022.

This week saw the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, ‘Levelling up the United Kingdom’. Tucked away on p226 under section, Improving Housing Quality, is the announcement of a Housing for Older People’s Task Force. We look forward to reporting on its full aims and objectives once published.

The Levelling Up White Paper also highlights the need for decent homes and greater digital connectivity. Something that I addressed in a guest blog for NHSX this week entitled, ‘Why technology-enabled housing is critical to getting care and support right’.

And it was also great to welcome the 2nd cohort of the Housing LIN’s Future Leaders’ Programme to the first meeting of the group last Friday. Unfortunately, we could not meet in person but hope we can do so later in the year. Thanks Thirteen Group for your support and we look forward to sharing the learning from the impressive group of early career professionals at our next annual Summit later this year. Do also read Thirteen's Director Chris Smith's new Housing LIN guest blog 'Spreading the living well message'.

Other news that caught my interest this week, included:

• Agile Ageing Alliance: Cultivating Neighbourhoods that Care: A Manifesto for change
• ARCO: London’s surplus bedrooms crisis revealed: over-75s stuck in larger houses with no option to downsize
• Look Ahead: Some things will have to change before housing associations start investing in supported housing again
• SCIE: An update on Liberty on Liberty Protection Safeguards
• The ‘World Alzheimer Report 2020' update

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If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email  ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 28 January 2022

This week, we were delighted to partner with the University of Bristol and ILC-UK in the launch of the findings from the Diversity in Care Environments (DICE) Project. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the resultant report, 'Inclusive Neighbourhoods - promoting social inclusion in housing with care and support', and an accompanying Learning Resource Pack with access to a selection of podcasts can both be found on the new online DICE webpages hosted on the Housing LIN’s website.

We also kicked off our new season of HAPPI Hour sessions this week. Over 240 people signed up to hear from NE housing association, Thirteen Group, who shared the lessons and outcomes from their Living Well corporate strategy. The feedback was tremendous!

Missed this? A recording of the session and the slides are now available on the event's webpage. And remember to book your place for the next HAPPI Hour session on Tuesday, 8 February. We are partnering the National Academy for Social Prescribing and HACT to take a deep dive into social prescription and wider community building.

Other news that caught my interest this week, included:

• Centre for Ageing Better: Five transformational changes for good later lives
• Appello: Digital Diaries with The Guinness Partnership
• Care&Repair England: Home adaptations and dementia
• Social care institute for excellence: Role of housing in the future of care and support

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If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email  ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and my must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 21 January 2022.

This week, we were delighted to publish a new Housing LIN guest blog by Dr Sophie Yarker from University of Manchester's Urban Ageing Research Group in which she highlighted the key aspects of her recent book ‘Creating Spaces for an ageing Society, the Role of Critical Social Infrastructure'. Hear Sophie expand on these at one of our upcoming HAPPI Hours, Social Prescribing: it’s a better prescription on Tuesday, 8 February.

The first HAPPI Hour session of 2022 is in partnership with Thirteen Group and explores the development and implementation of their Living Well corporate strategy. Register to attend this virtual session here. 

Also next week, watch out for the publication of the University of Bristol's DICE Project policy report, 'Inclusive Neighbourhoods - promoting social inclusion in housing with care and support', and the accompanying learning resource pack, to be hosted on a dedicated microsite on our website. You can still register to attend the online launch event.

Other news that caught my interest, included:

• New APPG on Dementia Inquiry into what people affected by dementia want and need from a social care workforce
• The Open University (OU) conduct a survey of people involved in commissioning, designing and delivering palliative and end-of-life care services.
• Research into Practice Ageing well podcast

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If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email  ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 14 January 2022.

This week, we published a new Housing LIN guest blog by the 'renting your own place’ research team. Funded by the National Institute for Health Research, School for Social Care Research, this project is trying to understand the ways that people with learning disabilities who are on the ‘edges’ of social care can be better supported to access and enjoy living in their own tenancies in the community. This blog reveals what some of the key messages were from the early project findings and explains what the next stage of research involves.

We also highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• think local act personal's (TALP) new report, Ten Actions for an Asset-Based Area
• A new article published by The Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research on the benefits of telecare in reducing ambulance call outs
• Healthy Homes campaign update: 'Westminster Hall debate shows strength of feeling about poor housing quality across the political spectrum'

We're also gearing up for the beginning of the next HAPPI Hour programme! On Tuesday, 25 January from 4pm, we're so excited to be joined by Thirteen who will be discussing their approach to the Living Well project, helping people live healthy and happy lives as they age. Other HAPPI Hours to follow can be found on our Events webpage. 

Finally, we're eagerly anticipating the launch of the ESCR funded Diversity in Care Environments (DICE) project, chaired by Professor Tom Scharf, Newcastle University. Led by the University of Bristol and supported by ILC-UK and the Housing LIN, join the virtual launch to find out more about the key findings on addressing social inclusion in a housing with care setting. And to accompany the launch, we also look forward to hosting the DICE microsite where you will be able to access a selection of free resources and useful infornation.

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HLINComms and @HLINConsult.

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email  ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 7 January 2022!

I hope you had a well-deserved Christmas break and a Happy New Year! The Housing LIN team would like to welcome you back with some exciting new learning and improvement activities!

On the back of the Housing LIN's 2021 highlights, we began this week by setting out our 5 A-List asks for the coming year. Moving forward with our aim to connect people, ideas and resources, you can also look forward to:

• Inspired learning: Join us for 6 new HAPPI Hour webinars this Spring, taking place bi-weekly from January to April 2022.
• Inspiring thought-leadership: We will share new, informative and engaging blogs from a wide range of guest contributors.
• Inspirational achievements: Alongside new exemplar care studies, research and resources, we will continue to showcase ‘Inspirational Achievements’ by our partners. 

The Housing LIN is also proud to support the 2022 Housing Design Awards, and in particular, the HAPPI design category. Year on year the bar is raised and the design quality on housing for an ageing population reaches new heights. The deadline submissions this year is Thursday, 3 March 2022.

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN,  @HLINComms and @HLINConsult.

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: nfo@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 17 December 2021

Last week was the Housing LIN Summit - A Festival of Ideas, our premier showcase event. Held over 5 days, we ran 11 HAPPI Hour-style session bringing together over 40 speakers and over 500 participants to listen, watch and learn about a wide range of topics: from intergenerational housing to healthy homes, and better housing design to how technology can aid independence at home. We have collated all of these and you can now watch and listen to a recording of each session and access the accompanying slides at your leisure, here.

To coincide with the Summit, last Tuesday, we were thrilled that Dunhill Medical Trust's CEO, Susan Kay, announced a £1m to support the next phase of the TAPPI project. We also were delighted to announce the commencement of our Future Leaders Programme early next year, thanks to Thirteen's sponsorship. And other announcements included the release of the Dementia and Housing Working Group design and technology briefing and a 'padlet' to support Recommendation 34 of this year's APPG housing and dementia Inquiry report, as well as several blogs by Summit contributors Faithful & Gould's Susan Rugg, Tunstall's Angus Honeysett and ARCO's Michael Voges.

This week saw the launch of a new APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry on Shared Ownership and Housing and Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (or SO HAPPI!). It will address, 'Can shared ownership make the right home an affordable option for later life?'

And we published our final guest blog of the year by Tetlow King's John Sneddon who shares a positive example of how to overcome the issues associated with challenging Green Belt site and how the benefits of the proposals can be weighed into the planning balance.

Check these and other news, views and resources from England, Scotland and Wales, including information about our New Year/Spring HAPPI Hour series commencing next month.

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HLINComms and @HLINConsult

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email  ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 3 December 2021

This week saw the publication of the government's Adult Social Care Reform White Paper, People at the Heart of Care. It includes a specific section on housing, technology and new models of care, backed by capital investment to support innovative new models of housing, adapt and improve existing homes and transform services, including the greater adoption of technology. We look forward to working with the Department of Health and Care Services in the coming months to support sector transformation.

More immediately, many of the housing, care and technology themes set out in the White Paper will be discussed at next week's Housing LIN virtual Summit. We also have a speaker from the DHSC who will share further insight and reflect on yesterday's announcement.

In other news, we were pleased to publish our latest #InspirationalAchievement on the award-winning Food Angels programme organised by Harrogate Neighbours Housing Association. And, find out more from their CEO, Saw Cawthray, when she addresses the Summit in the opening session on Monday, 6 December.

And for more news, views and resources that caught my interest this week include:

• George Clarke’s Old House, New Home Channel 4 programme which featured homeowner Maria Clarke (who will be speaking on Day 4 of the Housing LIN Summit).
• New Community-led Housing and loneliness report
• A new blog from the Housing & Ageing Alliance by Anchor Trust’s Mario Ambrosi
• A Centre for Ageing Better report: Flexible Working for Older Workers: Evaluation of pilot projects, and

• The UKRI Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards are now open   

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HLINComms and @HLINConsult

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email  ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, with further lockdown arrangements delayed for the time being, remain safe.

Jeremy