This week’s HLINks: 21-25 September 2020
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.
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Best wishes and stay connected and be safe,
Jeremy
This week HLINks also includes:
- a round-up of latest/updated Covid-19 resources and guidance relevant to the sector
- our usual a round-up of news headlines and new resources on housing, ageing, design and technology, planning, health and care, calls for information
- In association with Tetlow King Planning, the updated Older People’s Care Development – Local Development Plan Monitoring
- Housing LIN virtual networking events – join us for HAPPI Hour!
Next week on Thursday it is International Older Person’s Day and we are delighted to kick off our October HAPPI Hour with Professor Sarah Harper (Oxford University) and Prof Tom Scharf (Newcastle University) and the STOP ageism campaign, led by Guild Living. Drinks not included!
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.
Stay connected, stay well and, above all, be safe!