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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.

The TEC Action Alliance wants to understand how you use technology in your everyday life. This in turn will help the group understand how technology can best support people in the social care sector. This survey is for you if you are a person who draws on care services or a family caregiver or frontline staff member. 

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Mark Slater, Design Director at West Waddy Archadia, draws attention to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities' consultation on changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

In a report published today (‘Care and Support Reimagined: a National Care Covenant for England’), the Archbishops’ Commission on Reimagining Care has set out three actions to realise a new vision for care and support: rethinking attitudes to care and support; rebalancing roles and responsibilities; and redesigning the social care system.

The SW ADASS and Housing LIN Consultancy guide supports councils, with their local partners, to plan for and deliver the range of housing and care options needed by older people and working age adults with care/support needs.

This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources, and events including a Housing LIN Summit - A Festival of Ideas announcement, a new guest blog by Shakespeare Martineau's Louise Drew on retirement housing schemes, and launch of the SO-HAPPI report.

You and Yours' special on BBC Radio 4 highlighted Integrated Retirement Communities as a key part of the social care solution, and reported live from the ExtraCare Charitable Trust's Shenley Wood village in Milton Keynes. 

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Louise Drew, head of building communities and the research conducted by law firm Shakespeare Martineau, highlights the consequences of misconceptions about retirement housing schemes that are putting people off from leaving their larger properties and finding better suited places to live.

The Housing LIN Summit - A Festival of Ideas returns for a week-long virtual event of inspiring conversations on the week commencing Monday, 27 February 2023. With 2 free sessions each day, watch, listen and learn from leading figures from the housing, health, care and technology industries.

We are pleased to support the British Geriatrics Society's 'Protecting the rights of older people to health and social care' statement.