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The Government has announced new funding will be available to help local and combined authorities tackle digital exclusion in a Digital Inclusion Action Plan published this week. The plan includes funding for local initiatives targeted at people who are most digitally excluded, including older people and low-income households.

Housing LIN is back and gearing up for next Thursday’s highly anticipated Annual Conference in Leeds, marking our first in-person gathering since 2019! The response has been phenomenal - we’re oversubscribed, and we can’t wait to reconnect with our members.

This blog by Cat Hall, an Intergenerational Living Innovator, explores a journey of inspiration and perseverance, beginning in Deventer, Netherlands, where a chance encounter with an intergenerational care home sparks a vision for change.

This Centre for Ageing Better report summarises the findings of an evaluation that demonstrates how increased provision of comprehensive home improvement services can enable a healthier population, strengthen the resilience of public services and result in better economic outcomes.

This briefing by Demos for the Centre for Ageing Better looks into recommendations to implement Good Home Hubs and identifies barriers to implementation, calculates current demand for services and estimates the longer term impacts of setting up Good Home Hubs across the country.

Published in advance of this year's Housing LIN Conference, guest speaker Laura Wood, Director and Founder of Invisible Creations, examines the critical need for proactive home adaptations in social housing, exposing the systemic failures that leave many residents living in unsafe, inaccessible conditions.

In this week's HLINks we highlight our upcoming Housing LIN Annual Conference in Leeds, last week's South West Leadership Set meeting, various government policy updates and reports, as well as two new insightful Housing LIN guest blogs.

The Women and Equalities Committee has published its inquiry report on ‘The rights of older people', making a number of recommendations to government around the overarching themes of tackling ageist stereotypes, overcoming digital exclusion, enforcing older people’s rights and improved governance arrangements.

The government has published its proposals for implementing measures in the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023 and changes to Housing Benefit Regulations.

The government has published ‘Plan-making’ guidance which consolidates on number of aspects relating to planning requirements; from statutory duties and the role of plans to maintaining effective cooperation and a sound evidence base to delivering strategic matters and local interventions.