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Hot off the press: HLINks – our essential sector news, including updates on COVID-19, new tech findings, two great new Housing LIN blogs, and so much more

New guidance on supported living builds on the previous advice to supported living providers (withdrawn on 13 May 2020). The guidance is primarily for supported living settings, but many of the principles are applicable to extra care housing for older people. It may also be a useful resource for the wider supported housing sector, such as retirement or sheltered housing.

This week, the Housing LIN’s Jeremy Porteus was asked to take his crystal ball and look at the future of social housing for older people, how it is marketed and share examples of innovative practice.

The government has today published its Planning White Paper, Planning for the Future. Much trailed as getting Britain to "build, build, build", the measures outlined are a green light for housebuilders to construct new housing within certain confines; namely, on sites designated for growth. However, despite lobbying with other sector bodies for more favourable planning conditions for housing an ageing population, the paper did not propose anything specifically to boost planning for accessible homes for an ageing population.

In his guest blog for the Housing LIN, Stuart Carr of architects Inglis & Care, anticipates that Covid19 will drive housebuilding changes of various kinds.

As a founding member of the Workhome Project, the Housing LIN is delighted to collaborate with the project to help find out more about you and your organisation’s experience of home-based work during Covid-19 for staff and residents. Please take a few moments to complete this important sector survey. The deadline is Friday, 28 August 2020 at 4pm.

The DHSC has published the NHS People Plan, which explains what NHS staff can expect from their leaders and from each other. The plan sets out actions to support transformation across the whole NHS. It largely focuses on staffing and how to foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, as well as action to grow a workforce, train people, and work together differently within the NHS, as well as social care, to deliver patient care.

This Housing LIN guest blog considers the value of housing the homeless against the backdrop of Covid-19 and health inequalities.

The findings of the research undertaken by Appello,a leading digital, technology-enabled care service (TECS) provider, supported by the Housing LIN, paints a promising picture for the future of digital care technologies with 74% of housing providers claiming that their requirements for wellbeing technology have changed as a result of the pandemic.

Hot off the press: HLINks – our essential sector news, including updates on COVID-19, two great new Housing LIN blogs, and so much more.