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Ahead of our Housing LIN Summit – Reaching for the Top, and first ever HAPPI Awareness Week next week, we are delighted to publish this new Housing LIN guest blog by Lord Best, Co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People.

Appello launched today its cloud hosted convertor application, DigitalBridge, allowing customers to improve safety by diverting analogue Telecare alarm calls to the Appello Cloud where they are converted into digital calls.

This Knight Frank report examines the key trends from the senior living market.

Welcome to this week’s HLINks, the Housing LIN’s weekly bulletin, week ending 20 November 2020. We unlock the sector’s key news, views and essential resources through the lens of housing and ageing.

Yesterday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the Spending Review for the coming year. With much of the emphasis on post-Covid measures that will support the economy and stimulate growth, we are pleased for the recognition of specialist housing announced in the accompanying documents. Under section 8.3 on Disability, there is an allocation next year of £71m for the Department of Health's and Social Care's Care and Support Specialised Housing Fund (CaSSH). Furthermore, in 2021/22, the Disabled Facilities Grants allocation for councils will rise to £573million from £505million.

The Government has published its new COVID-19 Winter Plan setting out its plans for suppressing the virus, protecting the NHS and the vulnerable, keeping education and the economy going and providing a route back to normality.

This report by Action Deafness looks to determine a way forward with regard to the design and commissioning of housing and care services that are inclusive of the needs of older deaf people.

The Department of Health and Social Care have extended their series of webinars on the new test and trace arrangements for the extra care and supported living sectors.

Welcome to this week’s HLINks, the Housing LIN’s weekly bulletin, week ending 20 November 2020. We unlock the sector’s key news, views and essential resources through the lens of housing and ageing.

This important new report, jointly written by the Housing LIN and Learning Disability England, outlines the key results from research conducted into the housing circumstances and opportunities for people with a learning disability and/or autism. Drawing on extensive engagement with people with lived experience and others, it provides the most up-to-date picture of their needs and aspirations and is essential reading for those wanting to fund, commission, design and/or deliver a better range of independent living choices for people with a learning disability. The report is also available in an easy read format and also comes with a couple of YouTube videos.