HLINks archive

Welcome to this week’s #HLINks. For those of you surprised to receive our e-bulletin today, we have brought it forward by one day due to the Easter break.

The main news story of the week is the government announcement of the long-awaited Older People’s Housing Task Force. Included in their ‘Next Steps’ statement about the funding of Adult Social Care, the Task Force will seek to decide how best to provide a greater range of suitable housing depending on the support people need whether in their own home or a residential home. However, there is sector disappointment that the £300m Housing Transformation Fund has been abandoned and the amount of money promised for social care in the 2021 White Paper has been halved.

In other news, for the first time in over a decade, we highlighted a rare sponsorship opportunity available with the Housing LIN to help us create an exciting new brand identity for our news platform, this e-bulletin and information sharing activities!   

And check out Tony Watts’ OBE Housing LIN viewpoint in which he describes a '21st Century Almshouse for Bristol' that may offer a way forward for inter-generational housing in the city. I was also delighted to present at this week’s University of the Third Age webinar on ‘Our Homes for our Future’ and to generate a stimulating debate with members.

Other things that caught my interest this week include:

• The ONS have published their analysis on changes in our older population since 2011
• UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge story about the London Rebuilding Society
• The Dunhill Medical Trust blog on age-friendly communities, coproduction and community involvement
• Cochrane UK publish evidence on preventing falls in older people
• The Times article on how bad homes cost the NHS
• CACHE/Housing Options Scotland podcast on ethnic minorities and older people
• Inside Housing reports that the first LGBTQ+ scheme for the city is back on track
• Scottish Housing News article a downsizer market
• Local Government First article on the health effects on urban development
• Leeds Beckett University blog on places, spaces and social relations
• The Hewitt Review on Integrated Care Systems

And, if you haven’t booked you places, details are now out about our Spring/Summer series of HAPPI Hour sessions. We have a wide-ranging programme of FREE webinars for you to choose from kicking off on Tuesday, 18 April looking back at the Archbishops’ Care Commission with Commission chair, Dr Anna Dixon, Baroness Andrews, Faith in Society’s Jenny Kartupelis, WM ADASS coproduction network lead Rich Amos and, Boris Worrall, CEO of Rooftop Housing Group.

On the wider conferences front, we are pleased to promote the following:

• Mayday Trust Housing First: a strengths-based perspective webinar on 13 April
• United St Saviours Almshouse Longevity Study report launch on 20 April
• Feeling at Home findings on people with a learning disability on 26 April
• Future of London housing and integrated care: how can we have most impact? on 4 May
• Property Week Later Living conference – Unlocking the potential of the later living market, 22 June announced

Lastly, tomorrow is #GlobalHealthDay and we will be drawing attention to our health and housing resources on our website. And, next week, ahead of next month’s Steering Group meeting, look out for the publication of the Housing LIN Cymru prospectus.

This week, I was delighted to attend TSA's ITEC 2-day conference where I presented on TAPPI and launched a series of personal stories on its positive impact with our testbed partners.

The conference also saw the release of two new reports by the TEC Action Alliance: Technology-Enabled Lives: Delivering Outcomes for People and Provider and A guide to getting started in co-production. I was delighted to contributed a piece on making our living environment appropriate to our changing needs.

In other news, check out Katey Twyford's new blog highlighting the importance of three new Insight booklets published by the DemECH project for those with dementia, carers, and commissioners/operators of extra care housing.

And, you may have seen that Shakespeare Martineau released their report "Moving On: Could later living by the answer to the housing crisis?" following their opening session at the Housing LIN Summit on "Last time movers and shakers".

Other things that caught my interest this week include:

• Housing21/ECCT considering merger
• Bangladesh Independence Day celebrated the 1st anniversary of the Amar Bari, Amar Jibon project
• I visited Agile Homes with NHS England
• CAE blog on affordable housing options for disabled people by OT Marney Walker
• The APPG on Leasehold and Commonhold reform held a roundtable meeting looking at retirement housing after ground rents
• Good Thing Foundation HoL submission on digital exclusion and cost of living
• Nuffield Trust social attitudes report on social care
• Age UK report on cost of living crisis impact on older people

Finally, we're always eager to hear your stories and receive your case studies and thought leadership on good practices. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

This week, we were delighted to collaborate with a coalition comprising 70+ organisations, advocating for the appointment of a Commissioner for Older People and Ageing in England, as well as improved representation of older individuals in government policy and decision-making.

With specialist housing in mind, we also supported RIBA and a coalition of organisations by signing a letter to DLUHC urging the government to reduce the height threshold for multiple staircases in new residential buildings from 30 metres to 18 metres.

On the publication front, we have 2 new Housing LIN guest blogs: the first, written by Dr. Robin Darton from the University of Kent PSSRU, shares the benefit of extra care housing, and the second by Laetitia Cailleteau from Accenture on their technology-related UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge project with Hafod Housing Association in Wales.

Other items that caught my interest this week include:

• GM Ageing Hub YouTube video on Doing Digital Later in Life: a practical guide
• ExtraCare Charitable Trust article titled 'Smart homes offer solutions for seniors ageing in place'
• University of Kent upcoming domiciliary care workshop invite
• Quality of Life Foundation Victoria Payne's blog on Design Codes
• Housing with Care Awards 2023, get your nominations in quickly!
• Inside Housing article on inaccessible rental accommodation for disabled people
• This week's TAPPI-cast from HLIN Consult

Reminder alert! Please complete the Tunstall Healthcare survey Beyond 2025 - care technology in housing by Monday, 27 March.

Finally, we're always eager to hear your stories and receive your case studies and thought leadership on good practices. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

Following our most successful Summit and the outstanding session we held during the week on Inspiring Young Talent, we are delighted to publish a guest blog on empathic leadership by Respect's head of influence, Caroline Bernard who shared her experience during last year's programme. 

This week, we also issued a survey on behalf of Tunstall Healthcare entitled 'Beyond 2025 - care technology in housing' to hear by Monday, 27 March your views on digitally enabled care services in the housing sector beyond the digital communications switchover. 

And, I was also delighted to speak at ADASS's Yorkshire and Humber Commissioning Network and to attend the Dementia & Housing Working Group and the Amar Bari, Amar Jibon project board meeting.

Other things that caught my interest this week includes:

• Housing Today reports that the Government's budget slammed by the housing sector
• Our weekly TAPPI cast update
• A new report on Supported Housing and homelessness by the National Housing Federation
• SCIE's survey on the understandings and experiences of coproduction
• The King's Fund paper on digital health and care inclusion
• Age UK report on the case for an energy tariff
• King’s College London's workshop on collaboratively designing loneliness-detecting technology

Lastly, we are always keen to hear stories, receive your good practice case studies and thought leadership. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

Let's kick off with a recap of the Housing LIN Summit - A Festival of Ideas, which exceeded all expectations! Thanks to our sponsors, speakers, and attendees for making it a success. Access recordings, slides, chat report, and feedback here.

We also published two new resources to coincide with the Summit, including a guest Housing LIN blog on leadership basics and a new Housing LIN case study on Red Oak Court in Dorset.

This Tuesday, I attended the Dementia in Extra Care Housing (DemECH) research launch at the House of Lords where three new Key DemECH Insight Booklets were formally launched during a reception hosted by Lord Best, Chair of the APPG Inquiry into Housing for People with Dementia.

I was also delighted to participate in the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) show on Social Prescribing Day to promote our recent report in collaboration with NASP and HACT.

Other items that caught my interest over the last two weeks include:

• A new Health and Housing Impact Network for London launched
• The Amar Bari, Amar Jibon project in East London is looking to recruit 6 community co-researchers
• 2 extra care developments shortlisted in RIBA regional awards
• Inside Housing report on Housing 21 acquisition of Notting Hill Genesis extra care schemes
• Thirteen contribute to the North East and North Cumbria ICS Better Health and Wellbeing for All strategy
• BT Digital Voice update - exemptions announced
• A new Everon UK blog on the do's and don'ts for digital switchover, and
• A new King's Fund report on End of Life Care

Lastly, we are always keen to hear stories, receive your good practice case studies and thought leadership. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

With our highly anticipated week-long Summit just around the corner, you'll have to excuse me that #JeremyTalks features the latest news and updates related to the upcoming record-breaking Festival of Ideas!

First of all, I want to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude to all of you who have signed up to attend one or more of our 10 FREE summit sessions. We are thrilled to have received over 3000 registrations across our 5-day event, making this the highest number of attendees since our Summit went virtual in 2020. If you haven't already registered, don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to engage with leading experts in the field! Check out our programme and book your spot(s) before it's too late – registrations will remain open until 24 hours before each session.

In anticipation of next Tuesday's Summit session, "Inspiring young talent: investing in our future housing and care leaders," we are excited to share with you two insightful guest blogs by members of our Futures Leaders' programme. Be sure to read "Learning to live the best years of your life: Planning for the Unplanned," by Inspired Life UK's Ellen Pearce and Workplace Culture - What could it look? by P+HS Architects' Henriette Pissarro.

I was also delighted to be been invited by Tunstall Healthcare to share our reflections on their report with the County Councils Network, "Adopting the right technology to transform social care". Join us on Wednesday, 1 March, for their Summit session on "Telecares: Technology and Healthy Ageing at Home" where we will continue the discussion.

On the publication front, we look forward to joining forces with Shakespeare Martineau for the launch of their latest "Moving on" White Paper at the opening Summit session next week. Later in the week, we will also be releasing a new Housing LIN Case Study, showcasing a new scheme for people with a learning disability and autism in Dorset, built using Modern Methods of Construction techniques.

Lastly, please note that due to our annual Summit taking place all week, there will be no edition of HLINks next Friday. We will resume our regular schedule on Friday, 10 March, and look forward to sharing more news, views, resources, and events related to housing with care matters next month.

Welcome to #JeremyTalks, my overview of what caught my interest this week.

I am delighted to report that with just over a week to go before the start of our virtual Summit - A Festival of Ideas we have already attracted more than 2,250 registrations across the 10 sessions (27 Feb-3 March). If you have not already done so, browse the week-long programme and book you place(s). It's not too late as registrations will remain open until 24hrs before each session.

And ahead of our Futures Leaders' session on 28 February, we published two more blogs from the 2nd cohort of the programme. Read the Housing LIN's Darius Ghadiali's blog and Waltham Forest Council's Jack Baldan's blog and find out what they took away from our programme. And if you'd like to hear more from them and other members of the programme, sign up to their session - Inspiring young talent: investing in our future housing and care leaders .

This week, we also released a new Housing LIN Viewpoint by Tony Watts OBE, co-founder of Age Action Alliance, in which he interviews Bob Durie OBE in Housing to span the generations: A 21st Century Almshouse for Bristol. Tony will also be speaking at our Summit in the opening session. 

Some other items that caught my interest included:

• Have you taken part in TEC Alliance's YouGov Survey?
• TAPPI Cast and Thought Piece for Holyrood, Scotland
• new Chartered Institute of Housing paper on recent roundtable on housing, health and social care integration.
• a House of Commons briefing on finding funding for disability aids
• NHS Confederation CEO Matthew Taylor blog on preventative potential of social care
• Get involved in Uni of York INGENIOUS on air pollution in our homes. See YouTube promo animation

Lastly, we are always keen to hear stories, receive your good practice case studies and thought leadership. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

Welcome to #JeremyTalks, my overview of what caught my interest this week.

We are thrilled with the level of interest in our Summit - A Festival of Ideas commencing Monday, 27 February. Such has been the demand for the 10 FREE sessions we are now opening each session to a minimum of 300 participants! Register now or share with colleagues before registrations close 12 hours before the start of each session.

This week, we were pleased to release a new Housing LIN case study (No165) on a new extra care scheme in Preston. Written by Levitt Bernstein architects, it describes their work for Community Gateway Association and how they collaborated with the local community in the development of The Courtyards. Co-designed to the HAPPI principles it was shortlisted in last year's Housing Design Awards.

A couple of other things that caught my interest included:

• This year's Housing Design Awards deadline has been extended!
• New NHS England NHS estate web resource, Building for Health
• the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities announces £53m housing funding for drug and alcohol recovery
• Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee announces inquiry into government's planning reform proposals
• Tunstall Healthcare news story celebrating National Apprenticeship Week

Lastly, we are always keen to hear stories, receive your good practice case studies and thought leadership. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

Welcome to #JeremyTalks, my overview of what caught my interest this week.

This week, we published a new Housing LIN guest blog by Age Action Alliance's Tony Watts OBE titled, 'Downsizing… rightsizing: great theory, but where’s the product?'. Hear more from Tony when he presents in the opening session at the Housing LIN’s Summit – A Festival of Ideas, week commencing Monday, 27 February 2023. 

This week County Councils Network (CCN) and Tunstall Healthcare launched a new report which argues that the potential of technology to support those with social care needs is growing ‘exponentially’ each year. We look forward to also welcoming CCN and Tunstall Healthcare at this year's conference on the morning of Wednesday, 1 March in the session titled, Telecares: Technology and Healthy Ageing at Home.

In other news, our weekly update on the TAPPI project, which aims to improve the way technology is used in housing and care for older people, focuses on a range of upcoming TAPPI-related events to look forward to. 

A couple of other things that caught my interest included:

• Regulator of Social Housing's initial findings on damp and mould in social housing
• New Care and Repair Cymru report on the state of older people's housing in Wales.
• The Chartered Institute of Housing Policy & Practice's latest briefing on what you need to know about the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Bill
• Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s oral statement on the Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan

Lastly, we are always keen to hear stories, receive your good practice case studies and thought leadership. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

Welcome to #JeremyTalks, my overview of what caught my interest this week.

This week saw the publication of the Archbishops' Commission on Reimagining Care report calling for a National Care Covenant. I was pleased to attend the launch in London and to hear the theological, moral, personal and social values for compassionate care as well as the lived experiences of people receiving formal and informal care and support.

Debbie Ounsted CBE, a Commissioner on the Archbishops’ Commission report, joins us at Housing LIN Summit 2023 - A Festival of Ideas for a session on New models of care and support – reimagining our housing offer.

We also released a new guest blog by Mark Slater, Design Director at West Waddy Archadia architects on the NPPF Consultation. This consultation closes on Thursday, 2 March. Have your say!

And, just in case you missed it, last Friday saw the launch of the Housing and Care: good practice guide at Taunton Racecourse by Housing LIN Consultancy for SW Councils and SW ADASS. The publication supports councils in the region, with their local partners, to plan for and deliver the range of housing and care options needed by older people and working age adults with care/support needs.

A couple of other things that caught my interest included:

• BBC Scotland: Paramedics say people are getting ill because their homes are so cold
• DHSC: DHSC's areas of research interest

This week was also busy with attendance at a range of events and meetings, including:

• An in-person TAPPI event with Bield Housing Association in Scotland
• The 2nd virtual meeting of the TAPPI Phase Two Steering Board
• The Housing LIN Cymru Steering Group hybrid meeting at Melin Homes
• A virtual meeting of the Intergenerational Housing Network
• The online DHSC's Digital Social Care Advisory Board, and
• The CHIC Advisory Board meeting.

Next week, I look forward to attending the new Health and Housing Impact Network Steering Group meeting, hosted by The Future of London.