Housing LIN celebrates co-production week 2025!
This week was the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s Co-production Week 2025, a celebration of the power of co-production to design and develop better ways of doing things in social care.
Co-production aims to ensure that those with lived experience are not only heard but also actively influence the design and delivery of services that affect them.
Highlights this National Co-Production Week 2025
🧑💻Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (TAPPI)
One of our leading initiatives is the TAPPI programme. Through TAPPI, and in collaboration with TSA, Vivensa Foundation (formerly The Dunhill Medical Trust), Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research, and Coproduction Works, we have co-produced national frameworks, piloted digital solutions, and established a Champions’ Network of tenants and staff who have co-designed technology trials across the UK.
This work has helped transform how technology is chosen and implemented in later-life housing, ensuring it genuinely supports independence, wellbeing and digital inclusion.
More on TAPPI and co-production
✍️Coproducing Research in Practice: Experiences from the Amar Bari, Amar Jibon project
Published on The Open University’s Societal Challenges webpages, this blog by Dr. Manik Deepak-Gopinath, Dr. Mahera Ruby, Professor Sheila Peace, and Dr. Caroline Holland, members of the Amar Bari, Amar Jibon research team, highlights the central role of coproduction in their work. Also funded by the Vivensa Foundation (formerly The Dunhill Medical Trust), this research focuses on urban ageing within Bangladeshi communities in East London. Housing LIN is pleased to support this research project as a partner.
🗣️CollaborAGE Directory
A growing number of initiatives, many led by housing providers, demonstrate the power of community development, co-production, and user-led provision. Our CollaborAGE Directory showcases these local, community-led approaches to housing and care, offering practical insights, case studies, and guidance for commissioners, providers, and community leaders.
Explore our dedicated Co-production and community approaches webpage for a wide range of webinars, articles, practical toolkits and case studies all centered on empowering individuals and communities to shape and deliver more inclusive, person-centred housing and care solutions.