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Engaging residents less likely to access formal social opportunities, community activities and support

Jo Stapleton, Good Practice Mentor and Outreach Specialist at Age UK Camden, reveals how to find, approach and engage the people ‘no-one’ knows, including men, BAME communities and individuals less likely to say ‘yes’ to accessing formal services, community activities and support.

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• Are you a provider of supported housing for rent for people with learning disabilities and/or autism? Take part in this survey by Friday, 16 September 2022.

Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing

Starts at Home Day: A Housing LIN perspective

In celebration of #StartsAtHomeDay, Ian Copeman, the Housing LIN’s Business Director, shares his thoughts on the role of supported housing to help people to live as independently as possible and what experience the Housing LIN has supporting commissioners and operators of supported housing.

£2m research to study impact of place and stigma on older disabled adults

Led by University of Stirling, the study ‘Intersectional Stigma of Place-based Ageing (ISPA)’, will investigate and identify how stigma related to age, disability, and where someone lives, creates additional barriers for older people living with sensory and mobility impairments.

Key interior design considerations for later living environments

This Factsheet (no 34), a collaboration between Park Grove Design Ltd and the Housing LIN, shares latest key interior design considerations when developing environments for later living which are both inviting and in-line with current design research and practice.

A mixed age, intergenerational living model of extra care housing in Leicester

This new Housing LIN Case Study (No. 164) written by Natasha Bednall, Business Change Commissioning Manager at Leicester City Council, features an extra care housing scheme where the tenants are a mix of working-age adults with a care and support need as well as older adults.

Design, Construction, Planning and Technology

Why are TECS underrepresented in the training of housing professionals?

Andy Hart, Head of Delivery and Technical Support at Tunstall Healthcare, on the importance of educating housing professionals in the benefits and appropriate use of technology such as Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS).

TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation - Weekly update

Led by the Housing LIN, the TEC Services Association (TSA) and funded by The Dunhill Medical Trust, the TAPPI project will co-produce new tech tools with people who have lived experience over a 12 - 15-month period.

Next week, we look forward to announcing the 6 successful locality 'testbeds' (or demonstrator sites), led by community-based organisations who will ensure that the principles proposed during Phase 1 are developed and tested in real settings during this second phase of the programme.

Health and social care, mental health and learning disability

Anticipatory Care: Interventions Framework

This Intervention Framework sets out key areas in which interventions may be effective to address the issues identified during assessment and care planning. It gives an indication of the types of services and supports that might need to be in place to address the AC requirements of individuals.

Adult social care charging reform: distribution of funding 2023 to 2024

On the 8th August 2022, the Department for Health and Social Care published a technical consultation seeking views on proposals for distributing funding to support the first year of delivery of adult social care charging reform in 2023 to 2024. The consultation puts forward multiple options for distributing funding for needs and financial assessments, the extension to the means test, and the cap on care costs. 

This consultation will close on 23 September 2022. The department will then study the responses to this consultation and confirm the chosen approach by, at the latest, the 2023 to 2024 provisional Local Government Finance Settlement.

For any queries, please contact the Adult Social Care Funding Distribution Team’s inbox: ascdistribution@dhsc.gov.uk

Care and support and homelessness: Top tips on the role of adult social

These top tips, developed as part of the LGA and ADASS’s work with the Shared Outcomes Fund, seeks to support directors of adult social services and their teams, focusing on the role of social care in supporting people experiencing and recovering from homelessness.

Dementia

Prime Minister launches 'Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission'

Prime Minister Boris Johnson launches national mission to tackle dementia and doubles research funding to £160 million a year by 2024.

• New taskforce to speed up dementia research, using the successful approach of the Covid Vaccine Taskforce 
• Prime Minister calls for volunteers to come forward and join ‘Babs’ Army’ by signing up for clinical trials

Scotland

Living well at home: Housing and dementia in Scotland

The National Housing and Dementia Forum launched their final report yesterday Living well at home: Housing and dementia in Scotland making recommendations on changes needed to improve housing outcomes for people living with dementia.

Housing LIN Team Member Segment

Lois Beech, Senior Research Officer at Housing LIN, shares...

"This week, I was really impressed to see that Thirteen Group have redeveloped one of their offices into sheltered accommodation with great results! What a brilliant use of redundant space in an ideal location in central Middlesborough!"

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Events

Watch, Listen & Learn

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.

Join us on Wednesday, 21 September as we return for the Autumn/Winter series of HAPPI Hour webinars!

• HAPPI Hour - Digital Telecare: How ready are we for the digital switch? on 21/09/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Reimagining Care: the Church of England Commission’s Vision on on 28/09/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Ageing well with Assistive Technology on on 04/10/2022 4:00pm -5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Putting People at the Heart of New Housing Development: Co-producing the Place We Call Home on on 01/11/2022 4:00pm till 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - What Creates Healthy Cities? on 11/10/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Older People’s Care in Social Housing: A Manifesto for Change on 16/11/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Pioneering Urban Design for Later Living on 20/12/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Events supported by the Housing LIN

We are pleased to draw attention to a selection of other events that we think Housing LIN members may find of interest. They are:

• My home, my care, my way with West Midlands ADASS on 28/08/22 at 9:15 - 15:45 
• Putting People at the Heart of New Housing Development with East of England LG/ADASS on 7/10/22 at 9:30 - 16:00
• Housing 21's Annual conference on 12/10/22 at 10am - 4pm 
• LaingBuisson Retirement Housing conference on 22/09/22 at 9:00 - 17:00
• SALUS's Healthy City Design on 10/10/22 - 11/10/22
• and the UKRI Healthy Ageing conference

Next week’s HLINks

Next week, we look forward to announcing the 6 successful TAPPI locality 'testbeds' (or demonstrator sites), led by community-based organisations who will ensure that the principles proposed during Phase 1 are developed and tested in real settings during this second phse of the programme.

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, please get in contact.

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