HLINks Weekly: Housing, Health, and Social Care Latest News
HLINks Weekly: Housing, Health, and Social Care Latest News
3 March 2025
We're back and gearing up for Thursday’s highly anticipated Annual Conference in Leeds, marking our first major in-person gathering since 2019! The response has been phenomenal - we’re oversubscribed, and we can’t wait to reconnect with our members.
With an exciting agenda featuring keynote speakers and sector showcase leads, the event promises to be an invaluable opportunity for networking, knowledge-sharing, and collaboration. Stay tuned for an exciting announcement about a new APPG inquiry ahead of the conference, which we’ll also showcase at the event!
We are immensely grateful to our select group of sponsors who have made it possible for us to resume our free-of-charge, high-profile conferences for Housing LIN members.
Missed out? Follow live updates on Bluesky and LinkedIn. Post-event highlights and summaries will be on our website very soon!
Best wishes,
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The Housing LIN Team |
Sector News and Announcements
New funding for local government to tackle digital exclusion
The Government has published its Digital Inclusion Action Plan and announced new funding will be available to help local and combined authorities to tackle digital exclusion.
The ‘First Steps’ plan includes funding for local initiatives targeted at people who are most digitally excluded, including older people and low-income households.
Housing Design Awards 2025 – Last Chance to Submit!
As a longstanding advocate of the Housing Design Awards, particularly the HAPPI category, we are pleased to remind you that entries are now open for the 2025 Housing Design Awards.
The submission deadline for completed developments or projects is Wednesday, 12 March 2025.
Resource Roundup
Ageing Better report on the role of home improvement services in boosting the nation’s health and wellbeing
This Centre for Ageing Better report summarises the findings of an evaluation that demonstrates how increased provision of comprehensive home improvement services can enable a healthier population, strengthen the resilience of public services and result in better economic outcomes.
Implementing Good Home Hubs: The Demand, Costs, Finance and Delivery
This briefing by Demos for the Centre for Ageing Better looks into recommendations to implement Good Home Hubs and identifies barriers to implementation, calculates current demand for services and estimates the longer term impacts of setting up Good Home Hubs across the country.
Mind the age gap: making mental health matter across the life course
This report from the the International Longevity Centre (ILC) finds that serious mental health conditions are hampering people’s ability to live more fulfilling long lives.
Expert Insights
New Housing LIN Guest Blog Explores the Urgent Needs for Home Adaptations in Social Housing
Published in advance of this year's Housing LIN Conference, guest speaker Laura Wood, Director and Founder of Invisible Creations, examines the critical need for proactive home adaptations in social housing, exposing the systemic failures that leave many residents living in unsafe, inaccessible conditions.
New Housing LIN Guest Blog Explores One Nurse’s Vision for Intergenerational Living in Lincoln
This blog by Cat Hall, an Intergenerational Living Innovator and Housing LIN Future Leader Participant, explores a journey of inspiration and perseverance, beginning in Deventer, Netherlands, where a chance encounter with an intergenerational care home sparks a vision for change.
What else caught our interest...
- Amar Bari, Amar Jibon: Project Update
- Centre for Ageing Better: Moving towards an age-friendly UK: Age-friendly Communities impact report
- DHSC: Hospices receive multi-million pound boost to improve facilities
- DHSC: Research and development work relating to assistive technology: 2023 to 2024
- Emerald Publishing: Call for papers – Special Issue: The role of housing in supporting people living with dementia
- International Longevity Centre UK: Mind the age gap: making mental health matter across the life course
- Knight Frank: Welcome to NextGen Living 2025
- MHCLG: Approved document B - Fire Safety
- Tonic Housing: Precarious Lives: Financial and material hardship among older LGBTQ+ people in London
See What We’re Working on Behind the Scenes!
We're busy planning our Spring/Summer series of HAPPI Hour webinars. In the meantime, you can watch all previous HAPPI Hour webinar recordings here.
Curious about the various projects the Housing LIN is engaged in? These include groundbreaking research collaborations with universities and the creation of new tools and resources to shape policy and practice. Find out more here!
Events supported by the Housing LIN
International Technology Enabled Care Conference (ITEC), 17 – 18 March 2025, ICC in Birmingham
- TSA’s ITEC Conference is the largest dedicated Technology Enabled Care Conference in the UK. The Housing LIN is delighted to have secured 25 free two-day passes to the conference, on a first come first served basis. During registration, when asked if you have been issued a booking code, please select ‘YES’ and input the following code: ITEC2025/HLIN25. Please note the gala dinner ticket option isn’t part of this offer and is chargeable.
Housing LIN Research and Advisory Services
Building on our highly-prized learning and improvement ethos, the Housing LIN can help you and your organisation underpin your progress in a changing and challenging work environment.
Let's Work Together! To find out how we can support your operational and/or strategic plans, contact us at consultancy@housinglin.org.uk or visit our Research and Advisory Services.