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This Housing LIN guest blog shares an update on Tunstall Healthcare's new partnership with Sefton Careline, the at-home technology care service from Sefton Council, to support their transition to a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform. 

We’re delighted to welcome on board ProCare Ltd, Invisible Creations, and Johnnie Johnson Housing as new sponsors of the Housing LIN. Find out more about the new sponsors of our Accessible Design and Occupational Therapists webpage.

Welcome to TAPPI Cast, our weekly update on the 'Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation' (TAPPI) project which aims to improve the way technology is used in housing and care for older people.

Thanks to BT/EE for collaborating in cohosting a workshop with the Housing LIN this week at their London headquarters. The workshop aimed to examine the process of migrating analogue landlines to new digital technology for people in retirement housing.

Written by Megan Ward, Senior Homelessness Officer at New Forest District Council, this Housing LIN guest blog shares some of the changes their local Community Mental Health Team and Southern Health NHS Foundation made to improve mental health and homelessness services.

In light of the government establishing the Older People’s Housing Taskforce, Gavin Bashar, UK Managing Director at Tunstall Healthcare, considers how technology can be deployed to make all housing solutions work for older people. 

We're delighted to share with you our newest Housing LIN Case Study (No. 169) on accessible and inclusive housing, written in the context of the Enhancing the accessibility, adaptability and usability of Scotland’s homes consultation being conducted by the Scottish Government (closing date 21st December 2023).

We are delighted to announce that TACT – offering market leading range of accredited Trusted Assessor courses available UK-wide – is a new sponsor of the Housing LIN and exclusive sponsor of the Housing LIN’s Inclusive Design webpages.

The Department of Health and Social Care has published a toolkit to support place partnerships to develop their own shared outcomes as a powerful means of bringing organisations together from across the health and social care system and making integrated services a reality. 

Yesterday, we were thrilled to welcome the 3rd cohort of future leaders, filled with inspiration, to the second session of this year's programme sponsored by Inspired Villages Group. The session welcomes guest speakers Maxine Espley MBE, Chief Operating Officer at Green Square Accord, and Professor Roy Sandbach OBE, TAPPI Chair.