HLINks: get the latest news on housing with care matters - blogs, news, resources, and events
Welcome to this week’s HLINks.
Check out our weekly bulletin for the latest Housing LIN guest blogs and a range of new resources, news, and events, from across the housing, planning, health, and social care sectors.
Housing LIN Annual Conference – Vision 2020
Annual conference bookings now closed
Following last week’s announcement we have been inundated with bookings for the Housing LIN Annual Conference in Manchester. Such was the demand that we have over 100 people on our reserve list. We have therefore closed registration arrangements to avoid further disappointment.
You can find updates about Vision 2020 by following the Twitter hashtags #HLINconf20 and #Vision2020
Housing LIN Blogs
HAPPI 10th Anniversary
It’s been ten years since the first Housing our Ageing Population Panel on Innovation (HAPPI) report was published. This week we published the final guest posts from our series looking back on HAPPI, from two of the three co-authors of the first HAPPI report.
HAPPI Ten Years On
Patrick Devlin writes about the architectural lessons of the original HAPPI report.
“Good architecture is crucial both to the perception and experience of old age. There are increasing numbers of people around the country, in public and private sectors, living in a last home that is also their best home”.
A HAPPI Chapter in the Story of Design and Practice Research
In this guest post Matthew Barac writes about his experience of conducting architectural research for the original HAPPI report.
“How do places and buildings come to matter to people? How can the architecture of our homes combat loneliness while promoting independence? Can good design foster wellbeing, and flexibly support social activity into our twilight years”?
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
- National Housing Federation blog: Designing homes for dignity – Laura Wood writes about founding Invisible Creations, dedicated to creating accessible products that are well designed.
- Property Week: L&G Group’s new later living arm – Property Week take a look at Legal & General’s new later living schemes.
- Inside Housing: Who is new housing minister Christopher Pincher?
- LocalGov: Handyperson Services ‘unsung heroes’ in supporting independent living
- BBC: The housing project where young and old must mingle
Health and Social Care
- All Party Parliamentary Group on Longevity: The Health of the Nation- A Strategy for Healthier Longer Lives – A new report from the APPG on Longevity that lays out a strategy for improving quality of life for our ageing population.
Dementia
- UK Dementia Congress: Call for Presentations – The UK Dementia Congress is looking for presentations about the support, care, and treatment for people with dementia and their families.
- Alzheimer’s Society: Maximising the UK Dementia Research Moonshot for people affected by dementia - Find out what the ‘Dementia Moonshot’ is, and the five priorities to ensure the current government makes the most of the funds they’re pledging towards dementia research.
Mental Health
- UK Government Blog: From DoLS to LPS: an important time for mental capacity – Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) are being replaced by Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS). This blogpost explains the significant changes this will introduce.
- Social Care Institute for Excellence: DoLS aren’t the only part of the mental capacity world that is changing A blogpost about an ongoing review of the Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice
Planning
- Planning Housing for Older People Developments Tracker - In association with the Tetlow King Planning, this document monitors current local authority planning consultations that may be of interest for those seeking to develop housing for older people. The tracker is updated fortnightly.
- Finalists announced for Royal Town Planning Institute Planning Awards 2020
- Northern Housing Consortium: Time to Level-Up: Local Authority Housing and Planning Capacity in the North of England. This new research states Councils in the North of England have been disproportionately impacted by reductions in spending since 2010, leading to significant loss of housing and planning capacity.
Scotland
- Scottish Housing News: Digital inclusion project launched in Aberdeenshire - A tenant participation group at Castlehill Housing Association has devised a pilot initiative to help residents at one of its sheltered housing schemes get online.
Wales
Welsh Government: National Development Framework (NDF): collection of evidence – A summary of the evidence informing the draft NDF
Housing Design Awards
Deadline for Submissions Extended
The deadline for submissions for this year’s Housing Design Awards has been extended until 3rd March
The Housing LIN are very proud to be one of the sponsors of this year’s Housing Design Awards. There are now only a few weeks left for you to enter this year’s competition. Visit the Housing Design Award website to see previous winners and to enter this year’s competition.
Training Opportunities
Autism - Some Different Perspectives. One day course, London.
Due to popular demand we are offering 'Autism - Some Different Perspectives: A one-day course' as a group training session for individuals at our offices in Central London on 3rd April 2020. We are now taking bookings for the final places for this course, taking place to coincide with Autism Awareness Month 2020.
To book your place, or to discuss in-house training options (recommended for 8+ staff members), please email us: training@housinglin.org.uk. - Final places remaining.
The Mental Capacity Act and understanding the Liberty Protection Safeguards
We are offering a MCA and LPS one day training course.
The Housing LIN website has information on the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) to help raise your awareness of the MCA and its relevance to housing.
To further improve your understanding of the MCA and understanding of the forthcoming new Liberty Protection Safeguards legislation, this one day training course offers an interactive programme, covering all that you need to know in respect of working with people who might, at some time in their lives, lack capacity.
Events
Housing LIN Annual Conference
- Vision 2020: New approaches to housing and ageing. Housing LIN Annual Conference & Exhibition, Manchester (registration now closed)
Promoted by the Housing LIN
Next Week
Next week we start a new series of guest blogposts. Each week in the leadup to our 2020 Annual Conference we will be publishing blogs from contributors to our Vision 2020 conference.
We kick off next week with Bruce Moore, CEO of Housing 21, followed by Paul Watson, Managing Director at Guinness Care, on their respective thoughts on leadership.
Next week, also look out for a new report by GGL/legrand on the Digital Premium.
With Thanks
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.