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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 23rd April 2021.
Looking back to this time last year and a few weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, many housing and care organisations were quickly finding technology to be instrumental in their response to maintaining services and ensuring the wellbeing of customers. This week we announced an important new survey with Appello to help identify the perceptions towards technology within the supported housing and housing with care sector after operating with COVID-19 for over a year. Have your say by 6 May.
In this week’s HLINks, you can take a tour of other news and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more. In particular, we draw attention to a few new reports that we think will be of interest. They are: A new guide by Foundations (the national body for HIAs) on carrying out adaptations for children and young people with challenging behaviours; a Parliamentary Select Committee report on health and care in a digital world; a new report by The King’s Fund on health and integrated care systems can develop place-based partnerships; and a new blog by Social Care Futures on how we can build public support to transform social care.
And, in case you missed it, next week’s HAPPI Hour will be launching and reporting on the findings of a ground-breaking research that studied the impact of COVID-19 on retirement villages and extra care housing schemes across England. Not to be missed! And you may also be interested to learn that following our recent HAPPI Hour on the Archbishops of Canterbury and York housing report, the Archbishops have this week announced a follow up Commission on Reimagining Care.
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Jeremy
Housing LIN news item
Have your say: Will COVID-19 be the catalyst for greater use of technology in supported housing?
Just a few weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, many housing and care organisations had found technology to be instrumental in their response to maintaining services and ensuring the wellbeing of customers.
Join us and have your say in this Appello survey to help identify the perceptions towards technology within the sector after operating with COVID-19 just over a year on.
Do you think COVID-19 will be the catalyst for greater use of technology long-term, or has it proved to be just a temporary solution?
Do you still see ‘enabling employees to work remotely whilst maintaining property visibility’ to be our top priority, or has our focus shifted?
Please take a few moments to complete this short survey by Thursday, 6th May. By completing the survey, you will also have the option to receive the results, once published in the form of a short report.
Coronavirus Update
With further easing of Covid-19 restriction rules that came into force this month, check out current the relevant sector guidance on the pandemic on our Coronavirus Info Hub along with a range of Housing LIN practice briefings for the sector and links to other useful information and websites.
Do also post any or reply to questions on our discussion forum. It allows you to share information, raise issues and ask questions to solve a tricky issue. For example, can you share your organisation’s COVID-19 risk plan or information about how you are engaging with residents remotely?
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
What caught our interest?
- Anchor Hanover Group news item: BeAcitve programme
- Inside Housing blog: Local and mayoral elections: is the government listening?
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
What caught our interest?
- House of Parliament Select Committee on Covid-19 Report: Beyond Digital: Planning for a Hybrid World
- LGA/TCPA briefing: Building an inclusive society in the post-pandemic world - steps that national and local government will need to take to achieve an inclusive society in the UK
- NIHR research call: 21/501 Health and social care outcomes and cost-effectiveness of assistive technologies
- Social Care Today article: Can retirement communities help solve the social care crisis?
Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability
Developing place-based partnerships: The foundation of effective integrated care systems
This new report by The King's Fund considers the potential of place-based partnerships to improve population health and support integrated care. It outlines the overarching principles to guide the development of integrated care systems and highlights the support they might need from national and regional leaders to aid effective adoption locally.
What else caught our interest?
- Archbishop of Canterbury new commission: Archbishops launch new Commission on Reimagining Care
- Health Foundation evaluation report: The long-term impacts of new care models on hospital use
- Marie Curie report: Better End of Life Report 2021
- Social Care Futures blog: By changing the story of social care, we can build public support to transform it for future generations – here’s how
Housing and Dementia
APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry Report
Did you miss this recent APPG Inquiry report? Watch and listen again to the launch of the new report on housing and dementia here and be inspired by Wendy Mitchell as she shares her personal story about living with dementia.
And remember if you missed this week’s HAPPI Hour session on dementia and housing, the next one in this two-part series takes place on 20 May, coinciding with Dementia Awareness Week 2021.
Wales
For Welsh government guidance on COVID-19, visit: https://gov.wales/coronavirus
And what caught our interest?
- Digital Social Care article: Cardiff Council: using smart watches to reduce falls
Scotland
We are pleased that Housing LIN will be holding its first Scottish HAPPI Hour on Thursday, 27 May 2021. More details will be available soon on our forthcoming events page.
What else caught our interest?
- Housing Options Scotland article: Is there enough provision for people with learning difficulties
And for Scottish government guidance on COVID-19, go to https://www.gov.scot/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance/
Events
Have we got exciting news for you! Our Spring HAPPI Hour programme is now live and we have some excellent sessions coming up.
We are also grateful to Action Deafness for providing BSL Interpreters to that our upcoming sessions are now accessible to the deaf community.
Following the launch of the recent APPG Inquiry report on housing and dementia, the second of our two HAPPI Hour sessions with Care and Repair England, Foundations and RCOT is taking place on 20 May 2021 (as part of Dementia Awareness Week respectively). Register on our events page for further details.
In between, we are holding a session with Winckworth Sherwood on 6 May 2021 on investing in ‘care ready’ homes with Homes England, Igloo Regeneration and Sir David Pearson, chair of the government’s social care task force.
And to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week on 13 May 2021, our session puts the spotlight on housing and mental wellbeing with the Mental Health Foundation, Look Ahead Care and Support, and Ben Channon, co-founder of the Architects' Mental Wellbeing Forum.
We are also working on some exciting webinars for June which we will be announcing in due course, including with Clarion Group on healthy ageing and with Tonic Housing, One Housing, Anchor Hanover and the LGBT Foundation on housing for older LGBT communities. Keep an eye out on our forthcoming events webpage for details.
In next week’s HLINks
Next week we look forward to the publication of the ground-breaking research funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust into the impact of COVID-19 last year on retirement villages and extra care housing. Undertaken by St Monica Trust in partnership with the Housing LIN, the RE-COV Survey findings make important reading for the sector. We will be hosting a HAPPI Hour presenting the findings on Thursday, 29 April.
In addition, ADASS will be releasing a new briefing on the future of data-driven social care, ‘How can we harness information to care more proactively?
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.