Resource Library

This report from Public Health Wales and Bangor University presents evidence that living in a colder home is linked with negative impacts on health and well-being, particularly for people who are older or who have health conditions or disabilities, and includes a set of recommendations on the satisfactory heating regime in Wales.

The Local Government Association have designed a toolkit, intended for councils and partners to use to raise awareness of the digital switchover and its implications for residents.

This report from the Centre for Social Justice demonstrates the importance of the built environment for tackling loneliness and argues for government to prioritise development with design features that contribute to social connection and wellbeing.

This report from the County Councils Network and Newton reveals the growing costs of providing care for working age and disabled adults and makes the case for putting this group at the centre of plans for a National Care Service, proposing reforms focusing more on prevention, helping people live more independent lives and to reduce future costs.

Advocating a more intersectional understanding of how identity shapes stigma, this article from the ISPA Project, published in Housing Studies, presents findings from a systematic review of research that has a combined focus on ageing, disability, place, and stigma across OECD countries.

This paper by Guillermo Rodríguez-Guzmán highlights how primary care services can play a critical role in homelessness prevention by integrating a screening system to identify patients at risk of housing instability.

This initiative placing greater emphasis on cross sector coordination has been launched as part of the Welsh Government’s Winter Resilience Plan to improve hospital discharge times and care at home for the remainder of the year.

This research aimed to understand the ways that people with learning disabilities who are on the edges of social care can be better supported to access and enjoy living in their own tenancies in the community, when this is their choice.