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In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Anna Cameron, Head of Growth and Service Development for Learning Disabilities at Look Ahead, reflects on the challenges we face in social care and shares three key guiding principles for commissioners and government moving forward.

Happy New Year from all of us at the Housing LIN! As we return to work, each day this week we will be featuring one or more of our Chief Executive's wishes for the year ahead. Today's wish is the adoption of the TAPPI principles by the industry.

Happy New Year from all of us at the Housing LIN! As we return to work, each day this week we will be featuring one or more of our Chief Executive's wishes for the year ahead. Today's wish is to open the call for bids to the Care and Support Specialised Housing (CASSH) Fund. 

Happy New Year from all of us at the Housing LIN! As we return to work, each day this week we will be featuring one or more of our Chief Executive's wishes for the year ahead. Today's wish is the implementation of the Housing Transformation Fund.

In his New Year message, and as reported on the BBC, the Archbishop of Canterbury called for "leaders to fix broken social care". We look forward to the launch of his and the Archbishop of York's report by the Commission of Reimagining Care later this month in which he and the Archbishop of York make a number of recommendations. 

Happy New Year from all of us at the Housing LIN! As we return to work, each day this week we will be featuring our Chief Executive's wishes for the year ahead. Today's wish is for the establishment of the Older People Housing Task Force.

This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources, and events including the Housing LIN’s ‘Top of the Pops’, two final guest blogs of the year and the HAPPI Hour webinar recording on urban ageing.

As residents and extra care housing operators prepare for celebrating Christmas, catering is so vital for a scheme as it brings residents together, provides nutritious meals and is the hub of the scheme. This Housing LIN guest blog shares five tips to making catering a solution not a problem.

As we approach Christmas and the New Year, we look back at our top 10 most popular resources in 2022. These included a selection of publications published by the Housing LIN, others produced by our consultancy team, and those we were pleased to release in association with partner organisations.

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Julia Ashley, Business Development Director at C&C/Aster Group, draws attention to Grace House, C&C’s flagship scheme that welcomed new and returning residents into the 170 home scheme over the summer in the heart of St John’s Wood, London