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The Fabian Society has published 'Support guaranteed: The roadmap to a national care service', a plan on how to deliver on the Labour party’s ambition to create a National Care Service.

This new Housing LIN guest blog, by Laura Benbow, Community Investment Manager, Coastline, explores how Coastline is transforming social housing by placing listening at the heart of its work.

With thanks to Tom Copley, Deputy Mayor of London for Housing and Residential Development, for hosting the ‘Amar Bari, Amar Jibon’ (My Home, My Life) consultative event yesterday with guests at City Hall.

Figures from ADASS this week reveal growing demand for complex adult social care in England. Councils face financial strain, risking early, low-level support being missed and people’s needs worsening without timely intervention.

A new report, Beyond the White Picket Fence, has been launched following a London event bringing together experts across housing, health, and ageing.

Barefoot Architects are one of 20 architects’ studios that have won a RIBA National Award, for their designs for Hazelmead, Bridport Cohousing.

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment has launched an inquiry into how to scale up housing delivery without compromising design quality and construction standards.

This new Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman guide highlights issues disabled people face when applying to councils’ housing schemes, and the changes local councils can make to improve those services.

This new Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman Good Practice Guide is designed to help officers in local councils improve their practice when dealing with people who need housing adaptations, often through what are called ‘Disabled Facilities Grants’.

In this blog, Iain Scott, Senior Lecturer at the Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, and Caroline Pearce, a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, explore the need for an Ageing in Place (AiP) Standard tool that supports older adults to live independently.