HLINks: Vision 2020 guest blogs, Budget update, plus news, resources, and events from the Housing LIN

Coronavirus Update

For the latest information about Coronavirus for health professionals visit the government’s website.

The government has also published advice for health and care professionals in a residential setting.

NHS England has advice for clinicians in primary and secondary settings and care professionals.

If there any significant changes to government advice or policy we will update our members as soon as possible.

Housing LIN Blogs

Vision 2020 series

The Housing LIN Annual Conference is being held on 26th March in Manchester.

The theme for this year’s sold out conference is Vision 2020 and this week we published two new blogs outlining in our ongoing series outlining what housing might look like in the 2020s.

Top leadership challenges in affordable housing

In this blog Yvonne Castle, CEO at Johnnie Johnson Housing, lays out some possible solutions to the challenges facing the provision of affordable housing.

• Read Now

Later living: it’s never been more about people

In this guest blog Louise Drew of Shakespeare Martineau writes about the ways in which the later living sector needs to adapt to people’s needs.

• Read Now

Budget announcement

Wednesday’s budget announcement contained some significant announcements regarding the housing sector, and we have created a summary of the main points of interest for our members.

• Read Now

Home of 2030 competition

Home of 2030 is the design competition created to drive innovation in the provision of affordable, efficient and healthy green homes for all.

We need to increase the supply of new homes, ensuring resources are used efficiently and we build them to last. They need to provide healthy, safe and attractive places to live, that benefit people and communities.

Home of 2030 aims to inspire and reward the ambition of housing providers, designers, the supply chain and others helping to meet the big challenge of future housing needs.

• Find out more

Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing

• Age UK: Why older private renters need more security 
• LaingBuission News: ARCO backs CMA stance over lack of fee transparency
• Inside Housing: Housing associations draw up coronavirus action plans as UK cases mount (Requires subscription).
• Property Investor Today: What are the challenges of building a retirement village?
• 24Housing: Ministers urged to ‘act now’ to increase provision of housing with care
• 24Housing: Budget a ‘big missed opportunity for housing’

Health and Social Care

• UK Parliament Health and Social Care Committee: Social care funding and workforce inquiry launched - The inquiry into social care funding will seek to establish how much extra money would need to be spent by government in each of the next five years to counteract the impact of a shortage of care on the NHS.
• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government report: Improved Better Care Fund 2nd quarter reporting - Reports on data collected from local authorities to ascertain whether the additional funding is having an impact in helping local care markets through fee uplifts.
• Social Care Institute for Excellence: Innovation - but not for innovation's sake – Clenton Farquharson, Chair of Think Local Act Personal, writes about the need for research that is grounded in the lived experience of people.
• Voluntary Organisations Disability Group report: Securing the future of social care funding  (PDF) – A new report about the need for better funding for voluntary sector organisations.
• The Telegraph: Tories are edging towards social care taxation (Requires subscription)
• Community Care: Social workers warned to prepare for longer home care visits and ‘extra admin’ as coronavirus spreads
• The Medical Journal: Using design to closing the health gap and improve later life
• The Health Foundation: Common Ambition - A programme for partnerships developing collaborative communities where people, families, health care professionals and researchers work together to improve health care.

Homelessness

• 24Housing: Special housing fund takes aim at Target
• 24Housing: Government warned over self-isolation options for the homeless

Design and Technology

• Raconteur: Tech collaboration with health and social care puts people first

Scotland

• Inside Housing: Scottish Housing Regulator advises landlords on how to prepare for coronavirus (Requires subscription)
• Scottish Housing News: TECH: We’re on a roll - Nineteen organisations have now signed up to the TEC in Housing Charter this year, pledging to support tenants to be able to live longer at home using digital technology.
• Scottish Housing News: Loretto Care bridges generation gap with music

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.

• UK Government - Robert Jenrick plans for the future to get Britain building – Robert Jenrick, the housing minister, has announced changes to planning regulations intended to increase the supply of housing and a forthcoming planning white paper.

Did you know? Housing LIN Training courses

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.

The Mental Capacity Act and understanding the Liberty Protection Safeguards

We are offering a MCA and LPS one day training course on Friday 24th April 2020, in London. 

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.

To book your place, or to discuss in-house training options (recommended for 8+ staff members), please email us: training@housinglin.org.uk

Events

Housing LIN Events

• London Region Housing LIN event – 21st May 2020
• Eastern Region Housing LIN Event – 4th June 2020
• Midlands Region Housing LIN Event – 2nd July 2020 

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

• Appello - Meeting expectations with digital telecare
• HRF Academic Conference - Happy Homes, Happy Society?
• Clarion Futures Learning Series: Social Innovation Pop-up Labs by Liminal Labs
• Better Housing Choices for Older People, and People Who Need Support            
• Call for papers: Healthy City Design 2020 - Designing the Resilient City: Recovery, Renewal and Renaissance. The Housing LIN is delighted to be an official partner at this year’s event in London on 12th – 13th October.

Next Week

Next week we are publishing three more guest blogs in our Vision 2020 series, ahead of our annual conference.

Gavin Bashar (Tunstall) writes about what innovations the 2020s might bring for technology enabled care, Chris Smith (Thirteen) discusses how to create a great working environment, and John Sneddon (Tetlow King Planning) looks at local planning policies and housing for older people.

With Thanks

The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.