The GLA have outlined the draft vision for London’s homes, healthy places and infrastructure. It includes key vital sections on ensuring mainstream and specialist housing choice for those with accessibility requirements is available in meeting the needs of disabled and older Londoner's and ensuring a genuinely inclusive city.
This Age UK report shows how delayed discharge is driving pressure across the health and care system, contributing to longer waits, corridor care and poorer outcomes for older people. It highlights the importance of practical, community-based support in helping older people leave hospital safely, recover well at home and avoid unnecessary readmission.
The 6th cohort of the Future Leaders programme kicked off this week in London, with presentations from SNG’s People Director, Hannah Gibson, and Neighbourly Labs’ co-founder, Harry Hobson, both sharing their own personal stories on leadership.
The Housing LIN is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Senior Research and Insight Officer to join our consultancy and research team. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of housing, health and care services across the UK.
The new TSA Housing Commission was launched yesterday in Manchester, with the aim of engaging stakeholders to cocreate a ‘blueprint’ that puts people first in powering preventative technology-enabled care in social housing.
In this Housing LIN Case Study (No. 182), David Coulson of Buttress Architects demonstrates how a large-scale residential development can embed intergenerational living within a mainstream neighbourhood.
In this week's edition, we celebrate the achievements of this year's Future Leaders graduates, look forward to an upcoming webinar on Building Health into Homes, and report on publications from ISPA, ADASS and LGA, along with much more.
This LGA case study features a review commissioned to support WMCA’s aim to deliver better quality housing for disabled people with the goal of reducing health inequalities in the region, as part of its wellbeing delivery priorities.
The Association of Directors of Social Services have published their annual Spring Survey, showing that councils are supporting an increasing number of adults who have complex care needs.
With sincere thanks to Lord Richard Best for hosting the Housing LIN’s reception on the House of Lords’ Terrace yesterday, we were delighted to celebrate this annual event and also to present certificates to the 5th cohort of Future Leaders, who recently completed this rewarding year-long programme.
