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Friday, 8 July 2022
Welcome back to #Jeremytalks. What a week it has been on the policy and political front!
First a bit of normality! This week was #CoProWeek and the Housing LIN has been busy promoting the benefits of co-production as an opportunity to transform the way housing, health and care services are designed and delivered into an approach that offers people real choice, and control.
Continuing this week’s theme of co-production, we were delighted to announce the successful ‘Co-Production and Engagement’ and 'Evaluation and Shared Learning’ partner for ‘TAPPI2: from Principles to Implementation’. We welcome Co-Production Works and The Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR) on board the next stage of the project, led by the Housing LIN in partnership with TEC Services Association and funded by The Dunhill Medical Trust. Read the full announcement here.
We also held a successful HAPPI Hour webinar on technology and housing with guest speakers from the Department of Health and Social Care, The Dunhill Medical Trust and Tunstall Healthcare. Missed it? The recording, presentation slides and chat report are now available to download here.
In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:
- Inside Housing: Landlords must make decisions with tenants, not just involve them
- Irwin Mitchell: Unlocking Potential for Seniors Housing Development: Meeting the need for an ageing population
- Age-friendly Sheffield: Co-producing with head and heat
- Pride of Place, Leeds: Multi-generational community-led LGBTQ+ housing in Leeds
- Journal of Public Health: Learning from public health practice: the development of a library of community-centered practice examples
- DLUHC guide: Local authority interventions to improve quality in supported housing
And lastly, with the Prime Minister forced to resign, the Secretary of State Michael Gove MP sacked - and replaced by Greg Clark - and the Cabinet in turmoil, I noted that the chair of the government's Housing for Older People Taskforce, Housing Minister Stuart Andrew MP, had also resigned. We await further information about his replacement at ministerial level and leading the Taskforce. However, as they say, a week in politics is a long time!
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Jeremy Porteus Chief Executive |
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
How can housing associations play a lead role in levelling up rural areas?
It’s #RuralHousingWeek and the Housing LIN would like to draw your attention to a range of useful resources that address the challenges facing housing in rural communities, including an Inquiry report that made several 'rural proofing' recommendations to increase the quality, supply, and range of more appropriate age-friendly housing.
Unlocking Potential For Seniors Housing: Meeting The Needs Of An Ageing Society
Irwin Mitchell worked with property experts Knight Frank to look at seniors’ housing planning and the progress local authorities are making to provide suitable housing for our ageing population.
Find out how UK local authorities are supporting this issue and how this will affect our elderly in the coming decades.
What else caught our interest?
- Inside Housing: Landlords must make decisions with tenants, not just involve them
- The ExtraCare Charitable Trust: Solihull Retirement Village shortlisted for Inside Housing Development Award
- National Housing Federation: As someone who grew up in the country, levelling up rural communities is close to my heart
- Pride of Place Leeds: Multi-generational community-led LGBTQ+ housing in Leeds
- Property118: Supported Housing Crack Down
- DLUHC: Supported Housing Improvement Programme prospectus
- DLUHC guide: Local authority interventions to improve quality in supported housing
- Property Week: Over one third of local authorities lack clear policies for senior housing
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation - Weekly update
We are delighted to announce the successful ‘Co-Production and Engagement’ and ‘Evaluation and Shared Learning’ partners for ‘TAPPI2: from Principles to Implementation’, led by the Housing LIN in partnership with TEC Services Association and funded by The Dunhill Medical Trust.
Hear from both Co-production Works and The Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR) as they share what their role entails and why they are an essential part of TAPPI team.
This programme aims to ensure that the evidence gathered by the Inquiry in TAPPI1 is built upon and used to create a widely accepted Framework which embeds the recommended TAPPI Principles within a transformational change programme. Find out more by visiting the TAPPI2 microsite, hosted by the Housing LIN.
What else caught our interest?
- UK Research and Innovation: Winning projects will design for ageing
- TSA: Realising the Full Potential in Care
- Tunstall Healthcare: Beyond Housing - The importance of co-production in planning for a more digital future
- AT Today: £4.1m prize unveiled for assistive tech innovations that transform lives of dementia patients
Health and social care, mental health and learning disability
Do you work in mental health? Are you involved in commissioning services for young people experiencing a mental health crisis? Or do you have a personal experience of a child/young person in a mental health crisis?
Care Research, an independent research organisation, is currently seeking views from health and social care professionals involved in commissioning or working in children and young people's crisis provision in London and the South East.
The research, commissioned by Look Ahead Care and Support and funded by the Wates Family Enterprise Trust, is looking to quantify the need for community provision for young people who are in mental health crisis, recommend new and innovative services that better support young people with acute mental ill health and influence policy and key decision making.
Share your views by completing this short Professionals questionnaire and/or Children & families questionnaire.
Co-producing with head and heat
In 2015 South Yorkshire Housing Association (SYHA) were delighted that Sheffield was named one of only 14 areas in England to be awarded the Ageing Better programme from The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF).
This report outlines how Age Better in Sheffield has brought people together to build a city where everyone is proud to grow older.
A unique partnership to better support individuals living with learning disabilities
Hft, a national charity providing services for people with learning disabilities, has partnered with leading digital grouped living provider Everon to develop personalised care tech solutions fit for the future. The new system has meant it is possible to log into the system remotely to see the history and outcomes of any alerts, enabling staff to build patterns of behaviour to enhance care and support for individuals.
What else caught our interest?
Dementia and Housing
Left to Cope Alone: The unmet support needs after a dementia diagnosis
Alzheimer’s Society says support following a dementia diagnosis is ‘unequal, inconsistent and inadequate’, with one in five carers saying lack of support meant their loved ones ended up in A&E. A new report by the charity revealed three in five (61%) of people affected by dementia did not feel they had received enough support in the last 12 months.
Wales
What caught our interest?
- Older People's Commissioner report: Understanding Wales’ ageing population: key statistic
Scotland
What caught our interest?
Events
Watch, Listen & Learn
You're invited to join our forthcoming HAPPI Hours webinars!
In recognition of the success of our HAPPI Hour sessions, we are delighted that the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, have come on board as a sponsor of our online events.
- HAPPI Hour – From ‘rightplacing’ and ‘downsizing’ to better understanding of the housing needs and preferences of your ageing populations Tuesday, 12 July 2022 4:00pm – 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour – Designing inclusively: why inclusive and accessible design should be the first fix Tuesday, 26 July 2022 4:00pm – 5:15pm
Events supported by the Housing LIN
- National Housing Summit 2022 on Monday, 12th – Tuesday, 13th September
- SALUS Healthy City Design conference on Monday, 10 October – Tuesday, 11 October - Call for papers now open
Next week’s HLINks
Next week, we look forward to publishing a new Housing LIN guest blog by Jessamy Hayes, Programme Manager, Independent Living and Supported Living at Norfolk County Council on communicating about older peoples housing choices. In addition, we’ll also share our newest Inspirational Achievement with Places for People Living Plus on their new innovative module living project, Jubilee Place, Wisbech.
And, if you are interested in 'downsizing' and 'rightplacing' in relation to older adults and age-friendly neighbourhoods, we have lined-up a great HAPPI Hour webinar on Tuesday, 12 July at 4pm focussing on applied research by the universities of Cambridge and Sheffield in Hackney and the University of Manchester in Greater Manchester. Secure your place!!
Lastly, we will also report on a new report by Kellogg University, Oxford, for the Commission on Healthy Cities chaired by Lord Best.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.