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Enabling homes in which to ‘start, live and age well’ in the North East Gill Leng @gill_leng National advisor: homes and health 5 December 2016. Will cover. A home for health and wellbeing National ambitions Homes, health and wealth Opportunities in the North East.

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  1. Enabling homes in which to ‘start, live and age well’ in the North EastGill Leng @gill_lengNational advisor: homes and health5 December 2016

  2. Will cover • A home for health and wellbeing • National ambitions • Homes, health and wealth • Opportunities in the North East

  3. Home for health & wellbeing • A  healthy home: warm, safe, free from hazards • A suitable home: suitable to size of the household, and the specific needs of household members eg, disabled people, and to households whose needs may change eg, as they grow up, or age • A stable, secure, home to call your own: without risk of, or actual, homelessness or other threat eg, domestic abuse

  4. National ambitions By 2020 we will have economic & national security • Returned to surplus • Higher wages, lower welfare • More people able to pay to meet their own needs • Devolution to rebalance the economy • Self sufficient local government • Reformed and modernised public services Source: Spending review & autumn statement 2015

  5. Marmot review • Giving every child the best start in life • Enabling all children, young people and adults to maximize their capabilities and have control over their lives • Creating fair employment and good work for all • Ensuring a healthy standard of living for all • Creating and developing sustainable places and communities • Strengthening the role and impact of ill-health prevention Source: Fair society healthy lives, 2010

  6. Healthy life and work

  7. Home impact on ‘wealth’ • Starting and developing well • 3.6m children living in non-decent homes • Readiness for school, absenteeism, attainment, life! • Working and living well • 9.2m working age adults living in non-decent homes • Work absenteeism & productivity, parental capacity • Ageing well • 2m pensionable age adults living in non-decent homes • Work absenteeism & productivity, caring capacity • Impact on mental health across life course • Costs • £18.6bn to society • Opportunity cost: spend in local economy

  8. Opportunities? Commission recommendation: Partners across the area should integrate preventative action and action to tackle inequalities in all decisions Source: NECA (2016) Health and Wealth - Closing the Gap in the North East, Report of the North East Commission for Health and Social Care Integration

  9. Opportunities? Home is not just a wider determinant – action to improve health through the home can be secondary and tertiary Source: NECA (2016) Health and Wealth - Closing the Gap in the North East, Report of the North East Commission for Health and Social Care Integration

  10. Opportunities? • A ‘home’ strategy to achieve health and wealth • Not just new housing • Not just physical health but also mental health • Not just focussed on the long term • Targeting action to populations of interest • Post 16s, adults, furthest from work, individuals and families with complex needs • Considering ‘home’ in economic mechanisms • Human capital development • Supporting & attracting business & Innovation • Health and social care integration • Transport & other infrastructure eg, technology • Rural growth and stewardship

  11. Opportunities • Systems leadership & a common goal • “a home in which to start, develop, live, work & age well” • Harness community strengths • Connected communities are healthy and more resilient & create change • Market to others outside the region • Solutions developed in face of adversity • Research & innovation

  12. Sources: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-for-health https://khub.net/group/healthypeoplehealthyplaces/forum Resources and support

  13. Contact • Gill Leng • Tel: 07766 660799 • @gill_leng • Email: gill.leng@phe.gov.uk

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