HLINks - Housing LIN's weekly update at your fingertips
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 14 January 2022.
This week, we published a new Housing LIN guest blog by the 'renting your own place’ research team. Funded by the National Institute for Health Research, School for Social Care Research, this project is trying to understand the ways that people with learning disabilities who are on the ‘edges’ of social care can be better supported to access and enjoy living in their own tenancies in the community. This blog reveals what some of the key messages were from the early project findings and explains what the next stage of research involves.
We also highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:
- think local act personal's (TALP) new report, Ten Actions for an Asset-Based Area
- A new article published by The Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research on the benefits of telecare in reducing ambulance call outs
- Healthy Homes campaign update: 'Westminster Hall debate shows strength of feeling about poor housing quality across the political spectrum'
We're also gearing up for the beginning of the next HAPPI Hour programme! On Tuesday, 25 January from 4pm, we're so excited to be joined by Thirteen who will be discussing their approach to the Living Well project, helping people live healthy and happy lives as they age. Other HAPPI Hours to follow can be found on our Events webpage.
Finally, we're eagerly anticipating the launch of the ESCR funded Diversity in Care Environments (DICE) project, chaired by Professor Tom Scharf, Newcastle University. Led by the University of Bristol and supported by ILC-UK and the Housing LIN, join the virtual launch to find out more about the key findings on addressing social inclusion in a housing with care setting. And to accompany the launch, we also look forward to hosting the DICE microsite where you will be able to access a selection of free resources and useful infornation.
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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, above all, remain safe.
Jeremy
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New blog by the 'supporting people with learning disabilities to rent their own place’ project team reveal early findings
The ‘supporting people with learning disabilities to rent their own place’ research project, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, School for Social Care Research, is trying to understand the ways that people with learning disabilities who are on the ‘edges’ of social care can be better supported to access and enjoy living in their own tenancies in the community.
This blog post also reveals what some of the key messages were from the early project findings and explains what the next stage of research involves.
Coronavirus
Check out current and relevant sector guidance on the pandemic on our Coronavirus Info Hub.
You can also find out more about the 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
Ten Actions for an Asset-Based Area – Report
Published by think local act personal (TALP), this action orientated report shares examples of where councils such as Leeds, City of York, Swindon, Kirklees and Hammersmith and Fulham, along with organisations including Choice Support and Wiltshire Centre for Independent Living are taking practical steps to shift in the direction of building asset-based communities.
Healthy Homes campaign update
As part of the Healthy Homes campaign, tcpa have shared an update, 'Westminster Hall debate shows strength of feeling about poor housing quality across the political spectrum'.
During a Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday, both Labour and Conservative MPs raised concerns over the quality of many new build homes, highlighting the damaging impact of the government's expansion of permitted development rights and calling for the introduction of improved or legally-binding housing standards.
The Report stage in the House of Commons for the Building Safety Bill has now been timetabled to begin next Wednesday.
What else caught our interest?
- Consultation launches for £20m Manchester LGBT+ extra care home
- We need a special use classification for later living by Jane Ashcroft
- The House of Lords’ Built Environment Committee new report, Meeting housing demand
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
What caught our interest?
Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability
New article published on the benefits of telecare in reducing ambulance call outs
The Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research has published an article showing how advanced use of telecare takes the pressure off emergency care services by reducing ambulance mobilisations by 33.3%, despite the increasing age profile of the telecare service users.
The independent research was undertaken by Ignetica Ltd (UK), and examines the impact of Tunstall Spain’s teleassistance service, which combines telecare monitoring and response, coordinates social care and third party services and delivers proactive outbound contact from monitoring centres.
You can find out more in a recent blog by Wendy Hugoosgift Contreras, Director Monitoring Services for Tunstall Healthcare Group.
What else caught our interest?
- Read the latest blog by Brunelcare’s CEO Oona Goldsworthy for the National Housing Federation: Why some of the answers to the social care staffing crisis lie locally
Housing and Dementia
Did you miss this APPG Inquiry report?
With a new national Dementia Strategy expected, as referenced in the recent Adult Social Care Reform White Paper, watch and listen again to the launch of last year's influential 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? The recording and presentations are now available.
Wales
For Welsh government guidance on COVID-19, visit: https://gov.wales/coronavirus
What else caught our interest?
- The Commissioner's joint statement with key older people’s organisations from across the UK: Winter Support for Older People
Scotland
For Scottish government guidance on COVID-19, go to https://www.gov.scot/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance/
What else caught our interest?
Events
Watch, Listen & Learn
You are invited to join us for 6 new HAPPI Hour webinars this Spring!
Taking place bi-weekly from January to April 2022, the 6 HAPPI Hour sessions cover everything from a housing association's corporate approach to Living Well for the customers to the launch of a new end of life care in extra care housing guide, and from tech in housing and care to social prescribing and community-led housing.
- HAPPI Hour - Living Well on Tuesday, 25 January 2022, 4:00pm - 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Social Prescribing: it’s a better prescription on Tuesday, 8 February 2022, 4:00pm - 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Housing LIN Scotland presents on Tuesday, 22 February 2022, 4:00 - 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Launch event: Approaching the end of life in extra care housing: innovating and learning together on Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- HAPPI Hour - Forging a new partnership to transform housing and care-tech choices on Tuesday, 22 March 2022, 4:00pm - 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Fire safety in extra care housing (tbc) on Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 4:oopm - 5:15pm
Events supported by the Housing LIN
- Launch event: Inclusive Neighbourhoods - promoting social inclusion in housing with care and support on Thursday, 27 January 2022, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
IN NEXT WEEK'S HLINKS...
In next week's HLINks, we publish a new Housing LIN guest blog by Dr Sophie Yarker, Research Fellow, the University of Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group, titled: Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure.
Sophie is also speaking at a forthcoming HAPPI Hour event, Social Prescribing: it’s a better prescription.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.