East Midlands Housing LIN
Updated on 19/04/2012
East Midlands Housing LIN Champion:
- Debbie Waldron, Care Sector Manager, Willmott Dixon Housing Limited, Debbie.Waldron@willmottdixon.co.uk
For the next East Mids Region Housing LIN meeting, please look under 'Events'
Regional Update - April 2012
Debbie Waldron reports that plans for a £200m investment to transform residential and community care have been revealed by Derbyshire County Council. The proposed scheme aims to deliver dementia-friendly care and offer 1,600 extra care accommodations to hundreds of older people by providing brand new care and support, health and wellbeing services in Derbyshire.
Detailed consultation on these plans start from this month in relation to the first nine residential homes that could be affected by the plan and the move to more specialised services for older people, with short and long-term residential care, specialist dementia care, rehabilitation to help people get back on their feet and respite care. Click here for more details 
Regional Resources
- Invest in housing, invest in health This NHF report for strategic decision makers in the NHS shows how housing associations can make a big contribution to the health agenda. Using case studies from across the West Midlands, East Midlands...
- Developing cost effective housing options for people with learning disabilities across the East Midlands This Good Practice Case Study describes a housing solutions programme led by the Department of Health East Midlands, sponsored by the East Midlands Joint Improvement Partnership and co-funded by the...
- Whittons Mill, Gainsborough - Sheltered Housing Contributes to Regeneration (May 2005) Housing LIN Case Study No15 - Whittons Mill is an exiting development where two social purposes - regeneration and social housing for older people - have coincided to the mutual benefit of each.
- Commissioning an Extra Care scheme from social services perspective - Leicester City Council This case study No24 describes the process Leicester City Council and its partners went through to achieve success in its bid to the Department of Health Extra Care Housing Fund and the Housing Corporation...
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