This week’s HLINks: 9 – 13 January 2023

A very Happy New Year from all of us at the Housing LIN and welcome to the first issue of HLINks this year!

If you are a new subscriber to our weekly e-news, we publish this bulletin every Friday and provide a round-up of the latest news, views, resources and events on housing with care matters, as well as #JeremyTalks - an overview of what caught my interest, each week. Happy reading!

In this week's #JeremyTalks, I set out my top 5 wishes for 2023 for the specialist and supported housing sectors. 

We published two new guest blogs: the first, by Anna Cameron, Head of Growth and Service Development for Learning Disabilities at Look Ahead on how to be optimistic about social care; and the second by Dr Niamh Murtagh, Principal Investigator for ARC for the Future at the University College London (UCL), on Building an arch of resilience - ARC for the Future.

Other items that caught my interest include:

• YouTube videos by Anna Severwright (opens new window) from Social Care Future and Helen Herklots (opens new window), the Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, on the forthcoming Archbishops’ Commission on Reimagining Care report
   
• Latest details published by DHSC on £250m funding (opens new window) to speed up hospital discharge
   
• Census information on housing (opens new window) in England and Wales from the Office for National Statistics
   
• A blog for the Campaign to End Loneliness on measuring loneliness using technology (opens new window) from the Housing LIN-supported DELONELINESS project at Kings College London. 
   
• Entries are now open for the Davidson Prize, ‘Somewhere to call home (opens new window)’.

Lastly, this week I was also pleased to present at the inaugural meeting of the National Housing Community of Practice on Housing for Autistic People and People with a Learning Disability, hosted by NHS England. 

Stay connected, stay curious!

Jeremy Porteus