Resource Library

This report from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) sets out its Taskforce progress and learning from the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in informing advice and recommendations to government and the social care sector.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) released its Coronavirus Adult Social Care Winter Plan for 2020/2021. The Plan sets out the government's ambitions for the sector in England and the challenges facing adult social care this winter.

This report examines the progress of digital innovation in healthcare over the past five months with specific regard to telehealth, telecare, telemedicine and assistive technologies. It shows how the use of Technology-Enabled Care Services (TECS) has accelerated throughout the pandemic and calls for this momentum should be built on with a set of 8 recommendations.

This tool provides a strategic, future planning tool for the housing sector to support our homes and environment to be as accessible as possible. Published by the SHFA’s Innovation and Future Thinking programme, the tool allows Scottish housing associations, co-operatives and others involved in housing & urban development to think holistically about inclusive approaches to housing development, maintenance and repair, and the wider urban environment.

This report from the LGA explores how councils and their partners can best to support greater digital innovation and adoption across the adult social care sector in a sustainable way.

Produced by the Chartered Institute of Housing and Orbit Group, this briefing considers what the housing sector needs to undertake to lead the drive to tackle climate change and achieve the targets the government has set to reduce carbon emissions.

The government published its Planning White Paper, Planning for the Future on 6th August 2020. Much trailed as getting Britain to "build, build, build", the measures outlined are a green light for housebuilders to construct new housing within certain confines; namely, on sites designated for growth. However, despite lobbying with other sector bodies for more favourable planning conditions for housing an ageing population.

This toolkit from LGA is on helping councils and their partners to improve standards in the private rented sector. It is one of suite of new resources from them that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of tenants in the private rented sector, especially where there is evidence of poor housing conditions. It notes that older households in the private rented sector as an issue that should be addressed. For example, older people frequently need property adaptions to ensure independence and healthy living in later life.

The DHSC has published the NHS People Plan, which explains what NHS staff can expect from their leaders and from each other. The plan sets out actions to support transformation across the whole NHS. It largely focuses on staffing and how to foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, as well as action to grow a workforce, train people, and work together differently within the NHS, as well as social care, to deliver patient care.

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.