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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 29 September 2021.
This is where you can take a tour of relevant resources and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, dementia, planning matters and more.
Well, what a week of news it has been! While the nation may have been fixed on the Chancellor's spending plans, the highlight for me has been the launch of the TAPPI Inquiry report. Over 260 people registered to join us on Tuesday's HAPPI Hour when we were pleased to share the ‘Big Insights’ from the 6-months drawing on Panel Members and witnesses to highlight the key findings and recommendations for a future TAPPI Framework that is co-designed with citizens and co-produced with Industry.
Ahead of the launch, we were also pleased to publish a guest blog by Tim Barclay, CEO of Appello, reflecting on the use of technology in specialist housing and explaining why they fully support the TAPPI Inquiry Report.
Then yesterday, we announced the programme for December's Housing LIN Virtual Summit 2021, our 10th anniversary celebration. We have over 40 speakers joining us over 5 days, week commencing Monday, 6 December 2021 to share the latest in thought-leadership, highlighting product and service innovations, as well as bringing you cutting-edge research and practice development for the UK’s housing and care sector. Our A Festival of Ideas also coincides with the 2nd HAPPI Awareness Week, celebrating the benefits of designing care-ready accommodation and age-friendly housing services. More on this next week!
We also highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:
- The Budget and housing with care
- Reimagining Care Commission Listening and Engagement Exercise
- A Centre for Ageing Better blog by Jacquel Runnalls on how small tweaks to design can make products accessible for the home.
- Standards Wise International blog (following the Housing LIN's recent HAPPI Hour session on Intergenerational living).
Looking ahead, our final HAPPI Hour session of our autumn series takes place on Tuesday, 2 November, ‘From Moving on to Moving In’. We will be focussing on different approaches to 'rightsizing' and later life moves from both a range of personal and practitioner perspectives.
And remember, if you are an early career professional, next Friday is the deadline for applying to be part of the 2nd cohort of our Future Leaders programme. Find out more, here!
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If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week's issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email 'Jeremy talks' at: info@housinglin.org.uk
Stay connected and stay safe,
Jeremy
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New publication: The TAPPI Inquiry Report
Chaired by Professor Roy Sandbach OBE and funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust, the Housing LIN's 6 month TAPPI Inquiry Panel heard from people with lived experience about the technological opportunities and barriers faced in their lives, especially during COVID. These have helped shape the Panel’s ‘Big Insights’ and have won widespread support for developing an overarching TAPPI Framework to set out what ‘good must looks like.
The Panel’s ‘Big Insights’ are underpinned by ten core principles to build technology into housing in a way that improves life for our ageing population.
The Housing LIN now looks forward to progressing to Phase Two of the TAPPI project to pilot the principles.
Housing LIN guest blog on 'Why we are fully behind the TAPPI report'
Ahead of Tuesday's launch, Tim Barclay, CEO at Appello, reflects on the use of technology in specialist housing and explains why they support the TAPPI Inquiry Report.
Tim, who also gave evidence to the TAPPI Inquiry, says that by really considering the wider influences within specialist housing, from property design to the environment and customers to desired outcomes, technology can really be embedded into specialist housing to make monumental change to the living experience.
Just released! The Housing LIN Summit December programme available now.
The Housing LIN Summit - A Festival of Ideas – marking our 10th Anniversary - returns week commencing Monday, 6 December for five days of inspiring conversations in a virtual format with influential figures from the housing and care industries.
To coincide with HAPPI Awareness Week, we’ve got a great line-up each day showcasing the latest in thought-leadership, highlighting product and service innovations, as well as bringing you cutting-edge research and practice development for the UK’s housing with care sector. Lots for you to choose from. Book now!
Future Leaders Programme – Final calls for applications 5th Nov at 5pm
With thanks to Thirteen Group’s support, we want the new network to be a small, diverse and dynamic community of younger, early career individuals.
We are now looking for up to 10 committed people with an interest in housing for an ageing population to be part of our second intake.
This is a fantastic and valuable opportunity for successful applicants to learn through the lived experience of a selection of industry leaders about what/who inspired or influenced them and what qualities they looked out for to enable them to then develop their own leadership styles and credentials.
Applications close on Friday 5th November 2021 at 5pm.
And, in case you missed it, we have made the exciting decision to change our Twitter handle from @HousingLINews to @HLINComms to better reflect the scope of information we share.
Coronavirus
Check out current and relevant sector guidance on the pandemic on our Coronavirus Info Hub.
You can also find out more about the recent launch of the St Monica Trust/Housing LIN RE-COV Study, on COVID-19 and its impact on the retirement village and extra care housing sector.
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
Clarion Housing Group, UK Case Study: Regenerating Affordable and Enabling Housing for All Ages— at Scale
AARP have recently published a case study showcasing Clarion’s age-friendly strategy to over comes the needs and challenges associated with population ageing and changing preferences.
The case study also looks at Clarion's adaptability, customisation and community-centred approach.
The Budget and housing with care
While there was a welcomed £640m allocation to end homelessness and rough sleeping, Wednesday's Budget offered nothing for the Housing with Care or the wider specialist/supported housing or adult social care sectors.
ADASS reflected: "… the additional £1.6bn a year in grant funding for councils is welcome, it will do little more than meet the costs of the rise in the national living wage for care workers from next April."
ARCO's Michael Voges commented: "Today's budget represents yet another missed opportunity for social care."
And the new CEO of the Centre for Ageing Better, Carole Easton stated: "while the chancellor delivered an 'age of optimism' budget, we need more optimism around age. Given our ageing population, we need to see greater investment in prevention and a much stronger focus on tackling inequalities to ensure that everyone is able to enjoy a good later life, now and in the future. "
We await to see if there are any further funding announcements in the small prints to come.
What else caught our interest?
- Innovations in community-centred support goes global
- Intergenerational living is the future – where are the opportunities? And rewatch the HAPPIHour in Intergenerational Living, here.
- Supported housing scheme shortlisted for second prestigious award
- Nationwide briefing: Community-led housing and speed of development
- Exempt housing for the vulnerable ‘dangerously under-regulated’
- CIH and Centre for Homelessness report CIH and Centre for Homelessness Impact report looks at major savings in housing sector
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
What caught our interest?
- Centre for Ageing Better blog - Designing homes for everyone
- Everon Announces 10 Year Partnership with Clarion Housing to Provide Digital Health and Care Solutions across the UK
- Extract from Lords debate on Ageing: Science, Technology and Healthy Living (Science and Technology Committee Report)
- CIH Report: What you need to know about the Heat and Buildings Strategy
Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability
Launched today: Reimagining Care Commission Listening and Engagement Exercise
The Archbishops’ Commission on Reimagining Care has launched its public engagement phase providing individuals and organisations with the opportunity to say where you think care and support is working well, but also where things need to change.
The Commission is inviting responses about care and support for adults with disabilities and those with needs in later life. The Commission wants to hear from a wide range of individuals and organisations who have experience of care and care giving through their Listening & Engagement Exercise, which closes on 10th December 2021.
What else caught our interest?
- NHSX: Transforming care pathways
- Parliament Event: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Monday, 25 October 2021
- ADASS Responds to the Spending Review 2021
- ARCO Responds to the Spending Review 2021
- We Are Here To Create A Britain Where Everyone Can Age Well
- You have the RIGHT TO KNOW if where you live could be impacting your health.
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 did you miss our HAPPI Hour sessions on housing and dementia last month? The recording and presentations are now available.
What else caught our interest?
WALES
For Welsh government guidance on COVID-19, visit: https://gov.wales/coronavirus
Scotland
For Scottish government guidance on COVID-19, go to https://www.gov.scot/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance/
EVENTS
Sign up to the final HAPPI Hour session from our Autumn series!
- HAPPI Hour - From Moving On to Moving In - 02/11/2021 4:00pm till 5:15pm
And you may be interested in these other events supported by the Housing LIN
- Retirement housing: Why is the support of housing with care so limited in Scotland and what will it take to boost it? - Shakespeare Martineau webinar 03/11/2021, 9:30am till 10:15am
- Knowledge exchange workshop - Creating inclusive communities: Social inclusion in housing with care and support for older people - 04/11/2021, 10:00am till 12:15pm
- Healthy Ageing 2021 – Creating societal change through inspiration, innovation and impact – Centre for Ageing Better & UK Research and Innovation – 15/11/2021 – 16/11/2021
In next week’s HLINks
Next week, we publish 3 Housing LIN guest blogs. The first, by Sarah Burgess ahead of next week's HAPPI Hour on 'Marketing retirement housing for sale: Are you ready for 2022?'. And, following this week's TAPPI launch, two of the Panellist have written guest blogs for the Housing LIN. They are: Julia Ashley, CEO of Central & Cecil, entitled 'TAPPI, C&C and Aster - progressing with technology for a brighter future', and Alyson Scurfield, CEO of the TEC Services Association in which she reflects on her experience representing the TEC sector on the TAPPI Inquiry panel.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.