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Housing LIN Products / Announcements

Creating healthy partnerships between public health and housing to tackle health inequalities

We were delighted to publish our newest Housing LIN guest blog by Liz Parsons, Head of Public Health – Built Environment and Social Housing across Milton Keynes City, Central Bedfordshire and Bedford Borough councils. 

Ahead of next week's HAPPI Hour on housing and integrated care, Liz shares insight into an exciting new and innovative health and housing partnership.

Amar Bari Amar Jibon research update

Hear from the Amar Bari Amar Jibon project team as they share their monthly newsletter providing a round-up of the project's activities in the month of June.

The project focuses on the entrenched housing and health inequalities of Bangladeshi elders (‘probin’ in Bangla) in East London boroughs of Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets.

TAPPI Cast – 21 July 2023

Welcome to TAPPI Cast, our weekly update on the 'Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation' (TAPPI) project which aims to improve the way technology is used in housing and care for older people.

This week's highlights: publications of interest and updates from the TAPPI testbeds, including Pobl Group, Platform Housing, and Wiltshire Council.

Sector News and Announcements

Ageing well improving care: Impact 2022-23

Hallmark Foundation has published its first impact report showing how its grants and work are promoting better care and healthier longer lives.

The report showcases various funded projects, including their work with Clarion Futures and the Housing LIN to work with older residents on developing low cost technology that is easy to use.

Healthy Homes: Shaping the future

Published by Halton Housing, this blog sheds light on the 'Healthy Homes' initiative, a transformative journey aimed at significantly improving the wellbeing of their residents.

This proactive initiative is being launched at a critical time when the social housing sector is wrestling with numerous economic, political, regulatory, and impending legal challenges. 

For more information or to get involved, please email graham.death@ethos-partnership.com.

RIBA Plan of Work: Why architects should augment inclusive design throughout all work stages

A new landmark Overlay from RIBA argues that inclusive design is an integral part of good design for any building.

It seeks to embed inclusive design best practices across all stages of construction projects and empower each of the teams involved - from architects and clients to operators - to contribute to creating inclusive environments.

Levelling Up, Homes and Communities Committee report calls for planning reform

A new Levelling Up, Housing and Communities House of Commons Committee report finds that the Government's reforms of national planning policy has caused uncertainty for local authorities and planners, delayed local plans, and slowed new housebuilding.

Events

Watch, Listen & Learn

Join us for the final HAPPI Hour webinar of the Spring/Summer series.

• 25/07/2023 4:00pm - 5:15pm HAPPI Hour - Housing and integrated care: Moving from vertical to horizontal integration

Next week...

Next week's HAPPI Hour, on Tuesday, 25 July,  is the final webinar of the Spring/Summer series, looking at issues around housing and integrated care: moving from vertical to horizontal integration.

We also look forward to publishing two new Housing LIN guest blogs by Debra Edwards, TAPPI Co-production champion at Haringey, and the other by Gavin Bashar, UK Managing Director at Tunstall Healthcare.

And, finally, we welcome the 3rd cohort of our Future Leaders Programme to our first in-person meeting, kindly sponsored by IVG.