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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.

This Homes for Later Living report highlights the benefits for older people and the NHS from encouraging downsizing at a national level - proposing a targeted permanent reduced stamp duty for people downsizing into retirement housing to achieve this, as supported by the Housing LIN (see our news item dated 24 June 2020).

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.