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Welcome to Jeremy talks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with our FREE, sector-leading weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 30 October 2020.

This week saw the 3rd session of the APPG on Housing and Care for Older People inquiry into the housing experiences of people living with dementia. The session, chaired by Lord Best, focussed on the design and build of purpose-built housing for people with dementia, the retrofitting/adaptation of existing homes, the use of new and digital technologies, and how organisations are championing dementia-friendliness in their housing policies and practice.

In other news, we published a new Housing LIN case study by HTA architects on their award winning intergenerational development, Hanham Hall, in South Gloucestershire for Baratt Homes and Sovereign Housing Association.

And following the publication of the guide Adaptations Without Delay and nearly 5,000 page visits and 1,500 downloads from our website, we have teamed up with RCOT to survey our membership about the impact the guide has had. Please give us your feedback, don’t delay!

In this week’s HLINks, you can also read our curated round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including the release of the Housing and Dementia Research Consortia’s report on the prevalence of dementia in extra care housing.

Check this out and register here to keep in touch with all our news alerts and other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox, including details about our week long, virtual #HLINSummit2020 on w/c Monday, 7 December. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult.

Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted, share the learning about your work with other Housing LIN members and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you and your organisation, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

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Best wishes, stay safe and, above all, keep connected.

Jeremy

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Welcome to Jeremy talks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's free weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 23 October 2020. Have we got e-news for you!

If you missed last week’s HLINks, you will not know that we have announced the dates for our rescheduled annual conference. Cancelled back in March as Coronavirus was taking hold, we are now organising an exciting week-long virtual Housing LIN Summit, with 10 sessions over 5 days, week commencing Monday, 7 December.

And to coincide with the Housing LIN Summit 2020, we have designated that week as the first-ever HAPPI Awareness Week. We want to further raise awareness over the 5 days about the virtues of designing ‘care-ready’ accommodation and age-friendly housing services.

On Tuesday saw the publication of the government's National Statement of Expectations for Supported Housing. We were pleased that it made reference to several Housing LIN resources that aid local council's strategically and operators plan to meet the needs and aspirations of customers and understand the demand for quality services and products for older adults and vulnerable people.

In other news, we published a new Housing LIN case study by BPTW architects on their award winning Rochester Riverside development for Countryside and the Hyde Group, winner of the Building for a Healthy Life at this year’s national Housing Design Awards.

In this week’s HLINks, you can also read our curated round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including the release of the APPG on Housing and Social Mobility’s Inquiry report into tackling the employment and earnings gap in social housing.

Check this out and register here to keep in touch with all our news alerts and other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult

Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted, share learning about your work and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to Jeremy talks… here

Best wishes and stay connected and, above all, be safe,

Jeremy

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Welcome to Jeremy talks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's free weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 16 October 2020.
Hot off the press: I am pleased to announce that we have now released details of our rescheduled annual conference. Cancelled back in March as Coronavirus was taking hold, we a now organising an exciting week-long virtual Housing LIN Summit with 10 sessions over 5 days, week commencing Monday 7 December. Don’t miss out!

This week I was delighted to be invited by SCIE to be a Commissioner on a new Commission into on the role of housing in the future of care and support, supported by Dunhill Medical Trust. More details to follow.

On the COVID front, with a 3-tier system having come into force the government is also rolling out its test and trace, with a specific campaign for extra care housing and supported living operators. Check out details on their information webinars to find out more about arrangements for this.

We also held a great HAPPI Hour session on planning for healthy living and an ageing population with Tetlow King Planning and the TCPA. For more about our next two HAPPI Hour sessions, visit the events page on our website.

In other news, we published a new Housing LIN Viewpoint by LeGrand on the digital switchover and futureproofing grouped living developments. We also partnered Shakespeare Martineau with a new Ipsos Mori Later Living and retirement housing survey. Please take part in this, we want your views.

In this week’s HLINks, you can also read our curated round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including the LGA’s updated report on ‘Home Comforts’ and how the design of our homes and neighbourhoods affected our experience of the COVID-19 lockdown.

Check this out and register here to keep in touch with all our news alerts and other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult

Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted, share learning about your work and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to Jeremy talks… here

Best wishes and stay connected and, above all, be safe,

Jeremy

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Welcome to Jeremy talks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's free weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 9 October 2020.

This week I was delighted to be invited to be a Commissioner on a new Commission. Commencing later this month, the Commission will explore in detail what the emerging TEC models might look like and produce recommendations for government, the health and care system and the technology industry. More details to follow.

We also held a great HAPPI Hour session on Inclusive Living with the co-authors of the recently published Scottish Federation of Housing Association’s toolkit. And find out more about thought-provoking content in our next HAPPI Hour sessions by checking out the events page on our website.

In other news, on Wednesday it was #HousingDay and, to coincide, we published a new guest blog by Lifestyle by Engie's Retirement Solutions Director, Paula Broadbent, which looked at ageing and the zero carbon agenda. The following day we released a new Inspirational Achievements page by L&Q Living highlighting their work to tackle the first wave of Coronavirus in their sheltered and extra care housing.

And following the release of Appello's third report on digital technology and supported housing, we joined a webinar showcasing how TECS can transform lives and improve the delivery of services under Covid and lists providers’ priorities for technology going forward.

In this week’s HLINks, you can also read our curated round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including ARCO's announcement of a housing with care Advisory Panel helping to shape policy, investment and the operational landscape. We look forward to contributing and reporting on the Panels progress.

Check this out and register here to keep in touch with all our news alerts and other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult

Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted, share learning about your work and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to Jeremy talks… here

Best wishes and stay connected and be safe,

Jeremy

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Welcome to Jeremy talks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's free weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 2 October 2020.

As trailed in HLINks last week, this Thursday was UN International Day for Older Persons and, to coincide, we held a fabulous HAPPI Hour with leading gerontologists Professor Sarah Harper from Oxford University and Professor Tom Scharf of Newcastle University, along with Guild Living's Stop Ageism campaign, to explore whether our sectors is age-friendly or age-unfriendly and what this means for our homes and communities. The Housing LIN is also proud to be a member of the Stop Ageism campaign which was officially launched this week.

In other news, this week also saw Appello release their third report on digital technology and supported housing, drawing on the findings from our joint survey with them. It predicts that 2021 will see significant steps forward in the delivery of TECS as service users become more technology aware and the telecoms landscape moves closer to being completely digital.

And following my blog on work ready HAPPI at the start of the pandemic, I have updated it 6 months on for the Workhome Project taking the opportunity to review the 10 HAPPI design principles for work readiness.

In this week’s HLINks, you can also read our curated round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including a new housing report on the older LGBT+ community in London.

Check this out and register here to keep in touch with all our news alerts and other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult

Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted, share learning about your work and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to Jeremy talks… here

Best wishes and stay connected and be safe,

Jeremy

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Welcome to Jeremy talks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's free weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 25 September 2020.

It's been another busy week on the Housing LIN news merry-go-round. It’s National Eye Health Week and we kicked off on the government's Winter Plan for 2020/2021 which came out late last Friday. The Plan sets out the government's ambitions for the sector in England and the challenges facing adult social care this winter, making one reference to extra care housing and supported living, and how digital technology can play a greater role. However, we also noted the short-sightedness of the Plan. With winter in mind, more could have been said about housing interventions to make our homes warm and energy efficient, and the obvious links with health improvements at this time of year. Alongside the Plan, DHSC released the report from the Social Care Sector COVID-19 Support Taskforce on the pandemic. The Taskforce had 8 working groups and each of their papers was also published. The Housing LIN was a member of the working group on innovation and good practice and its paper refers to our Home from Hospital online directory of practice. And staying with government, MHCLG have allocated £91.5m to 274 councils to end rough sleeping, helping vulnerable people who were housed during the pandemic stay in accommodation this year.

On Monday it was World Alzheimer's Day and we hosted the 2nd session of Lord Best's APPG Inquiry into the housing experiences of people living with dementia. The Housing LIN is Secretariat to this Inquiry which is due to report in February 2021. There were also a couple of useful new reports published on designing and planning for dementia that we feature in this issue.

This Thursday saw our 3rd open HAPPI Hour session. Attracting over 80 members, we focused on our recent report on supported housing for the National Housing Federation. We also released our latest A-Z this week. This one gives an alphabetical list of 26 intergenerational and community-led housing, such as cohousing in the UK.

In this week’s HLINks, you can also read our curated round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including the Centre for Ageing Better's new report with The King’s Fund on Health, Housing and Covid-19.

Check this out and register here to keep in touch with all our news alerts and other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult

Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted, share learning about your work and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to Jeremy talks… here

Best wishes and stay connected and be safe,

Jeremy

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Welcome to Jeremy talks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's free weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 18 September 2020.

From Monday this week, the government latest rules for social gatherings in England took effect with variations for other parts of the United Kingdom. We have updated our Covid-19 Practice Briefing (No1) for extra care housing and retirement housing operators accordingly.

In other news, it is #ForAccessibleHomes week, an initiative championed by Habinteg Housing Association to raise awareness of the lack of accessible homes in the UK. We are a proud supporter of the campaign and, to coincide, we held our 2nd HAPPI Hour webinar yesterday, putting the spotlight on designing HAPPI accessible housing with PRP Architects. And, staying with design, we also published a new Housing LIN Cyrmu case study on Linc Cymru’s new extra care scheme and independent living bungalows in Tondu and Maesteg by architects, Quattro.

The TCPA also launched the final version of the Healthy Homes Bill for England this week. This sets out suggested legislation for Government planning policy to adopt a holistic approach to delivering new homes which actively work to improve health and wellbeing. You can read about this and a round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, dementia, health and social care, design and technology, other planning matters and more in this comprehensive bulletin.

Check it out and register here to keep in touch with our news alerts and other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds@HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult.

Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted, share learning about your work and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

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Best wishes and stay connected and be safe,

Jeremy

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Welcome to Jeremy talks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's free weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 11 September 2020.

It’s been another bumper week of news with the government setting out it’s latest rules to limit the spread of Covid-19 by making social gatherings of more than 6 people indoors or outdoors illegal from Monday, 14 September. We will be updating our Practice Briefing accordingly.

In other news, the Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick MP announced a raft of measures to stimulate the housing market, with further details in Homes England’s Affordable Housing Programme prospectus, including how 10% of the allocations will be used to support programme delivery to increase the supply of much needed specialist or supported housing.

In addition, coupled with the recent Planning White Paper, the government announced a new consultation to consider how best to raise accessibility standards for all new homes in recognition of the importance of suitable homes for older and disabled people.

In this week’s HLINks, we also feature our latest guest blog on Coastline Housing’s Click and Connect service in Cornwall. You can read about this and a round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more in this comprehensive bulletin.

Check it out and register here to keep in touch with our news alerts and other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult.

Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted, share learning about your work and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to Jeremy talks… here

Best wishes and stay connected and be safe,

Jeremy

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Welcome to Jeremy talks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's free weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 4 September 2020.

In this week's edition, we report on the 2nd technology report by Appello. This follows the joint survey we undertook with them earlier this year whose results show the growing appetite for investment in going digital. We also released two guest blogs. The first on a couple's reason for downsizing and the second (following Channel 4's programme on Friday evenings, Lodgers for Codgers) on homesharing.

I am also delighted to announce that during lockdown we have developed and tested out an exclusive new Housing LIN brand called 'HAPPI Hour', our exciting new online platform for our popular thematic and regional events. We will be running a series of hour-long webinars on a variety of themes starting this month. Get your drinks ready.

In this week’s HLINks, you can also read our curated round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more.

Check this out and register here to keep in touch with our news alerts and other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult.

Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted, share learning about your work and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk.

You can also listen to Jeremy talks… here

Best wishes and stay connected and be safe,

Jeremy

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Welcome to Jeremy talks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's free weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending 28 August 2020.

In this week’s edition we bring you a kaleidoscope of features through the prism of housing, care and support for older and disabled adults.

Hot off the press, we kick off with a National Housing Federation report we have written for them on supported housing, released to coincide with their #HomesAtTheHeart campaign and this week's particular emphasis on living well. Our report sets out what is required to ensure there is sustainable development of supported housing for adults with long term care and support needs. And to coincide with the NHF’s campaign, we released a guest blog by Habinteg's support worker, Laura Gregg, on her challenging experience of working in a floating support service with very vulnerable adults during the pandemic in Teesside.

And, staying with Covid, the Government has updated its Coronavirus Adult Social Care info hub. I am delighted to report that the Housing LIN's practice briefing is now cited.

In other news, we also cover the Home of 2030 announcement of the 6 finalists shortlisted to go forward to the final selection process this autumn. This will ascertain who will be the ultimate winner and have the opportunity to develop innovative low carbon, age-friendly homes. I was privileged to be a judge of this government competition.

And following Frances Holliss' piece in last week's online Guardian Opinion, today is your last chance to take part in our working from home survey. We have teamed up with the Workhome Project to take the pulse of home working in the UK's social housing. Whether working in social housing or a tenant, please complete by the end of today.

In this week’s HLINks you can also read our curated round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more.

Check this out and register here to keep in touch with our news alerts and other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult.

Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted, share learning about your work and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk.

You can also listen to Jeremy talks… here

Have a good bank holiday weekend, stay connected and be safe,

Jeremy