This week's HLINks: 31 - 4 February 2022

Welcome to #Jeremytalks (opens new window) and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks (opens new window), 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 (opens new window)
• Look Ahead: Some things will have to change before housing associations start investing in supported housing again (opens new window)
• SCIE: An update on Liberty on Liberty Protection Safeguards (opens new window)
• The ‘World Alzheimer Report 2020' update

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Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy