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As part of their 100th anniversary, St Monica Trust's '100 Good Ideas' project is seeking submissions for your suggestions of how to support more people – in their communities and beyond – to live healthy, independent lives as they grow older.

A new report by Inclusion London uncovers the reality of inaccessible and unaffordable housing for deaf and disabled people in London. It follows an inquiry capturing the housing experiences of deaf and disabled Londoners and the supply of accessible and affordable housing.

In just one month, we’ll be kicking off our first in-person conference of the year in Leeds! We look forward to welcoming you on Thursday 6th March for "A Festival of Ideas: Age-Friendly Homes and Connected Communities," a pivotal event that brings together housing professionals, policy makers, and stakeholders to discuss the future of housing for older people.

Following United St Saviour’s Charity standout contemporary almshouse, Appleby Blue, in Bermondsey being crowned the HAPPI winner and winner of winners at last year’s Housing Design Awards, entries are now open for the 2025 Awards. Don’t miss out this year!

This blog by Caroline Cooke, director at social enterprise Share and Care Homeshare, covers the latest homeshare report, which explores the growing sector and its benefits for both older and younger individuals.

The Housing Ombudsman has released its latest, hard-hitting ‘learning from severe maladministration’ report, focusing on adaptations and landlords’ responses to mental and physical health needs. 

A new policy briefing by the think tank Reform calls for quick action to scale up technology within social care, pointing out that too much of the technology in social care is not being scaled and is stuck in small scale pilots that are not having the system-wide impact they could achieve.

In this week's HLINks we highlight the limited spaces available to this year's Annual Conference, A Festival of Ideas, an exciting Benefits and Costs of Domiciliary Care study announcement, Better Care Fund policy framework 2025 to 2026 and much more!

The government has published the Better Care Fund (BCF) policy framework which sets out the BCF objectives, funding allocations and conditions for 2025 to 2026.

First published by Pozzoni on 7 January 2025, this Housing LIN guest blog by Director, Nigel Saunders shares a brief synopsis of the Older People’s Housing Taskforce report.