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The government is consulting on the technical detail of the draft supported housing licensing regulations, including how the regime is structured and operates, what falls within scope or is exempt, and how applications, decisions and enforcement would work in practice. The consultation closes on 10 December 2026.

This Independent Age briefing shows how the Local Housing Allowance freeze since April 2024 is hitting older private renters. With almost seven in ten facing a rent shortfall, many are cutting back on heating and food. The charity urges the Government to uprate LHA in the upcoming budget.

This needs assessment reviews how housing conditions shape health across Oxfordshire, to help select metrics for tracking the housing ambition in the county’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2025-2030. It calls for integrated countywide data and coordinated action by councils and the voluntary sector to reduce future health demand.

This welcome pack introduces neighbourhood health to local demonstrator sites, setting out the NHS 10-year Health Plan context, the infrastructure, partnerships and support needed to deliver change, and three key shifts: hospital to community, sickness to prevention, and analogue to digital.

This briefing from Habinteg shares findings from a survey that identified that one in five UK adults report that they or a family member experienced outcomes such as a delayed hospital discharge or a move into residential care, because a home could not meet their accessibility needs.

The Department of Health and Social Care have published new guidance for housing providers in England on telecare and the digital switchover in support of the National Telecare Action Plan. It sets out the essential steps organisations should take to help safeguard telecare users during the digital phone switchover by the end of January 2027, including information on data sharing, fire safety considerations and options for upgrading analogue telecare systems.

September 2026 marks four years of the Intersectional Stigma of Place-Based Ageing (ISPA) Project. This report offers a roundup of the activities and achievements in Year 4.