HLINks: New blogs, new resources, and news and events from the specialist housing sector
Welcome to this, the final edition of HLINks for 2019. We will return with HLINks in January, and we would like to wish all of our members a very merry Christmas from all of us at the Housing LIN.
This week we feature two new blogs, and we also have all the new resources and news and features about the specialist housing sector.
Housing LIN Blogs
The planning and housing disconnect
Siobhan Moore, Director of Development at Housing 21, writes about how Housing 21 are working with local authorities to deliver better housing with care.
By using the specialist knowledge of providers and the targeted local knowledge of councils, developments can be better planned, designed and procured and services commissioned to meet the requirements of local populations, be developed more quickly, and delivered on budget.
Time for Change for Almshouses? Reflections 1980-2020
In this Housing LIN guest blog Jenny Pannell reflects on her 40-year career, and the changes to almshouses in this time. She asks how can almshouses reinterpret their past and continue to meet housing needs in the 21st century.
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
- Design Council: Home of 2030 Innovation Challenge
- UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence: The Ladder of Place Quality
- Forbes: Renting Sees Resurgence, Especially With Seniors And High Earners
- Building: Could public-private partnerships unlock the later-living challenge?
- 24 Housing: Government ‘needs to commit’ to new forms of care delivery
Design, Planning, and Technology
- Motionspot: Sue’s future proof bathroom
- Ingenta: Making use of evidence in commissioning practice: insights into the understanding of a telecare study’s findings
- Appello: Appello acquires Medvivo’s Careline business
- MHCLG: Building Regulations Part L (fuel & power) and F (ventilation) consultation survey
Health and Social Care
- Personal Social Services Research Unit: Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2019
- Salus: Healthy City Design 2019 Highlights
- Government on the NHS and social care: Queens Speech 19 December 2019
- Public Health England: Helping People Living in Cold Homes e-learning programme
Wales
- Social Care Wales: An improved National Social Care Data Portal for Wales launches
- North Wales Pioneer: Old Colwyn intergenerational Christmas get together organised by social care students
Have Your Say - Two calls for info
Extra Care Housing Survey
We are into the final weeks of our Extra Care Housing Survey. Please complete our survey by Tuesday, 31 December 2019.
End of Life Care and Extra Care Housing
Share your good practice on end life care in extra care housing by Monday, 6 January 2020.
Events
Housing LIN Events
We have now concluded our 2019 regional showcase events. However, we are now making preparations for our annual conference in March 2020, and also planning our 2020/2021 regional programme. Details to follow in the New Year.
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Next Week
Next week we publish our final blog of the year, by the Housing LIN’s Jeremy Porteus, in which he gives a taster on the themes that will be featured at our Vision 2020 annual conference next year.
This is our final weekly newsletter of the year. HLINks will resume on Friday, 10 January 2020. The office is closed until Thursday, 2 January 2020.
With Thanks
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.