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This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources and events and takes a look at other items that caught our interest, including the Department for Health's plan for digital health and social care and the implementation of new Integrated Care Systems. 

The Health and Care Act 2022 has now completed the parliamentary process and has received Royal Assent. This is an important step on the journey towards establishing ICSs, moving them onto a statutory footing with the establishment of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs).

Published by The Department of Health and Social Care, the plan for digital health and social care sets out a vision for a digitally enabled health and social care system and how we can achieve it – it collates existing digital strategies, plans and guidance into one single action plan.

The Learning Disability and Autism Housing Network (LDAHN) and the Housing Learning and Improvement Network (Housing LIN) are working together to undertake research about supported housing for people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people in England.

Telford & Wrekin Council, the unitary authority in Shropshire, was named Local Authority of the Year at this year’s MJ Achievement Awards.

This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources and events and takes a look at other items that caught our interest, including CaCHE's briefing on how to combine action on housing retrofit with tackling health inequalities and Golden Lane Housing's new three-year plan, coproduced with tenants.

Manchester City Council will begin the process to bring a new housing provider with extra care experience on board to deliver the new LGBTQ+ majority Extra Care housing project in Whalley Range, south Manchester.  

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Ed Warner, Founder and CEO at Motionspot and Paula Broadbent, Managing Director at Lovell Later Living, reflect on the importance behind transforming spaces and lives through beautifully designed, accessible environments and products and why sectors changes are needed now to ensure that the demands of today are met tomorrow and so forth. 

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, David Burgher, Director and Founder of VR-EP, reveals how and why VR-EP created an immersive VR experience as a tool to help architects understand how to design dementia friendly spaces.

Hosted by MenCap, Learning Disability Awareness Week is an annual campaign which raises awareness on what it's like to live with a learning disability. It aims to help remove stigma and discrimination and educate more people about learning disabilities. This year, Learning Disability Awareness Week takes place between 20th – 26th June 2022.