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Building for a Healthy Life (BHL) is the latest edition of - and new name for - Building for Life 12. The new name reflects recent changes in legislation and BHL also recognises the findings of the three-year Healthy New Towns Programme led by NHS England and NHS Improvement.

Appello, in partnership with the Housing LIN, are calling on your support to help identify changes in perceptions on technology and identify best practices for the sector moving forward.

This report by the Scottish Human Rights Commission (the Commission) provides an account of a 4 year project of working with a group of people who were living in poor housing conditions in Leith, north Edinburgh. People were experiencing problems with damp, mould, ineffective or broken heating, pigeon, rodent and insect infestations, and maintenance issues.

This leaflet from the Sussex Health and Care Partnership provides a checklist for householders about hazards found in their home.

This report from partners TLAP/SCIE and Shared Lives reports back on Phase II of the work undertaken by the Social Care Innovation Network. It seeks to discover how to develop, through learning groups, practical lessons on how we can develop the conditions in which innovations in social care can flourish or proliferate.

This guide by architects Levitt Bernstein, endorsed by The Passivhaus Trust, graphically sets out ten simple principles that form the foundations of good Passivhaus and zero carbon design

Research published by Tunstall Healthcare reveals technology keeping older people independent for longer, delaying a move to a care home by nearly nine months and enabling hard-pressed local authorities to redeploy millions in social care funding.