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North East Housing LIN update January 2019 @HousingLIN @HousingLINews
Policy news: • NHS Long Term Plan • Disappointing not to have more reference to role of housing • However, focus on strengthening community based/ home from hospital support • Also Healthy New Towns • Prevention Green Paper • National Planning Policy Framework Consultation. Additional MHCLG guidance on housing for older people due in next few weeks • Social Care Green Paper, 2019?
Funding news: • Housing LIN response to Government’s Funding of Supported Housing consultation • Additional £55m announced in the Budget for DFGs • Homes England’s Continuous Market Engagement set to deliver CASSH (Care and Support Specialised Housing Fund) priorities
RIBA Bookshops - #AgeFriendlyHousing Useful policy context, Insights, Info boxes and examples of mainstream and specialist housing for older people. From ordinary housing, bungalows, retirement villages to extra care, residential care & hospices Co-living & intergenerational living Adaptations and future proofing our homes, including tech and eco-build 15 case studies (England and Europe) https://www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/RIBA-age-friendly-housing/
New Housing LIN Policy briefing Innovative Housing Models for an Ageing Population • Industrial Strategy roundtable event with BEIS and DHCS organised by the Housing LIN • Connections across health, housing and care • Digital and Technology • Moving on in later life – Looking to the Future • Engaging the volume housebuilders? • Modular build techniques – a disruptive opportunity for innovation and improvement? • Intergenerational design & new forms of living • Who is ageing? – always somebody else
New Housing LIN Practice briefing Technology and Digital Connected Care Services: Towards the tipping point? • What are the barriers for widespread adoption of digital technology in housing, health and care services? • What is the tipping point for digital in these sectors?
A selection of recent Housing LIN blogs Almshouses - leading the way in the sustainable provision of low-cost homes and community The Future of Health and Housing is Community Age Friendly Housing: What is needed for a step-change? Intergenerational practice creates ageless communities
New Viewpoint: Learn to Innovate – European lessons on designing for ageing well • A look at three schemes from Denmark and Holland
Housing LIN – projects in progress • Been supporting NHS England in Yorkshire and Humberside on the Transforming Care Programme to improve housing for people with learning disability/autism • Joint work with the Centre for Ageing Better and the Race Equality Foundation to explore the housing needs of older people from BME communities • In early discussion with partners to develop a Housing LIN Scotland • Recently held the Housing LIN Cymru – annual conference – 7 November, Newport • Planning for our 2019 annual conference. Edgbaston Cricket Club
Spotlight on extra care housing • YouTube videos: latest on technology enabled care in extra care housing last week. View at: • https://www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/A-Digital-Revolution-in-Extra-Care-Housing-Private/
Housing LIN consultancy Underpinning your learning and improvement • Developed new service webpages setting our consultancy, training and wider fee paying services to supplement our free online and regional Housing LIN networking activities. Examples of work include: • Strategic Housing for Older People Market Analysis for several county councils and unitary authorities in Wales and England (the latter as part of the LGA Housing Advisor programme) • Undertaking sheltered housing ‘fit for purpose’ asset management reviews for housing associations in the Midlands and Yorkshire • Commissioned by the Royal College of Occupational Therapists refresh its 2006 guide, Minor Adaptations without Delay. Due out Spring 2019
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