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Housing Options Scotland has developed this guide designed to support Local Authorities and Coming Home Leads in their role within the Coming Home framework, the national commitment to ensuring that people who have learning disabilities and complex support needs can live in their home communities, with the right support and housing.

This report, published by the Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, reveals that older people in many parts of Wales are waiting over a year for crucial adaptations to be made to their homes, with the average in one area sitting at nearly two years.

Published by the Department of Health and Social Care, this framework sets out the next steps for the NHS and local government, working alongside civil society, to deliver a neighbourhood health service in England, outlining how Integrated Care Boards, local authorities, health and wellbeing boards and other partners should create and deliver neighbourhood health services.

This report, undertaken by the LSE for the Centre for Ageing Better, presents findings from the first year of their funded Good Home Lincs pilot - a local Good Home Hub in Lincolnshire designed to help residents repair, adapt and maintain their homes.

The DHSC have published the results from their survey of adult social care providers to better understand care technology adoption and barriers to further adoption, providing illuminating findings ahead of the digital switchover by January 2027.

The Centre for Excellence in Universal Design have produced a suite of guidelines and a checklist to raise awareness and inspire different thinking about the benefits of universally designed homes, providing a flexible framework for designers to apply the guidelines creatively to all new home types.

This report from Independent Age finds that older private renters are often living in the oldest, coldest homes, and trapped in fuel poverty, and explores how energy efficiency standards can be improved without causing hardship.