HLINks: A must read for info on Housing LIN Annual Conference, 10 years of HAPPI, and latest sector news
Welcome to this week’s HLINks, the weekly bulletin from the Housing LIN.
This year’s Housing LIN conference is about looking forward to the challenges facing specialist housing in 2020s. We also took some time to look back this week in our blog series marking the tenth anniversary of the first HAPPI report.
We also have new resources, news, and events from across the specialist housing and housing for older people sector.
Housing LIN Annual Conference – Vision 2020
Annual conference provisional bookings now open
The theme for this year’s Housing LIN Annual Conference is Vision 2020 – new approaches to housing and ageing. We want to look forward to the challenges facing housing for older people and specialist housing in the UK in the next decade and discuss how we can meet those challenges.
All 300 places for last year’s conference went within hours of opening the booking, so we encourage you to book your provisional* place as soon as possible by clicking on the link below.
You can find updates on Twitter by following the hashtag #HLINconf20
*Provisional bookings are allocated on a first come, first served basis. Once all provisional places have been booked, you will receive an email from the Housing LIN to advise you whether or not your place to attend this year’s conference is confirmed.
Housing LIN Blogs
Ten HAPPI Years!
In Ten HAPPI Years! Lord Best writes about the achievements of the original report, and what challenges now face government in ensuring the supply of high-quality housing for older people in the UK.
HAPPI Anniversary
In our second HAPPI blog this week, HAPPI Anniversary, Julia Park, Head of Research for Levitt Bernstein Architects, and a co-author of the original HAPPI report, reflects on what we’ve learned from the original report, and from its four sequels.
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
- ITN news report: Number of people with disabilities and medical conditions on housing waiting list rises by almost 11,000 in two years
- Care Management Matters: Support for retirement communities - Former PM and Rt Hon Theresa May MP has pledged her support for the private retirement communities sector.
- Showhouse: Unused NHS buildings perfect for later living schemes - Unused NHS buildings are to be redeveloped into one of a new breed of later living schemes being planned by Guild Living, a business set up in partnership with Legal & General to create and manage housing for older people.
- Bloomberg: Britons Priced Out of Housing Market Face Renting Into Old Age - Years of rapidly rising house prices mean that a generation of Britons may have to rent their homes into old age, according to new analysis.
- City AM: Want to encourage downsizing and free up the housing market? Reform stamp duty – A thinkpiece from John Tonkiss, McCarthy & Stone
Health and Social Care
- The King’s Fund: Thinking differently about commissioning: learning from new approaches to local planning
- Age UK: Your mind matters – This short video highlights the importance of talking about mental health issues for older people.
Dementia
- National Dementia Action Alliance: Dementia Statements: Through a legal lens – New guidance from the NDAA for carers, legal professionals, and those with dementia.
- Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) Assessment Tools. Final call for this entries to this survey from the King’s Fund and University of Worcester. If you are familiar with these tools and would like to take part in the review then please complete this survey by Monday, 17th February.
Design and Technology
- 24 Housing: The human touch and invisible technology - Paula Broadbent writes, as we become older our needs become wider and more diverse. Technology and human interaction can meet in the middle to ensure these needs are met.
- Invisible Creations: Design for Dignity Product Range – A range of helpful assistive products from this new ‘start up’ company. Also presenting at our annual conference next month.
- NHS Digital: Local digital adult social care projects awarded share of £4.5m - Sixteen organisations that provide and commission adult social care services are to receive a share of £4.5m to enable them to roll out their local digital projects on a wider scale.
Mental Health
- NHS England blog: How talking therapy can help older people improve their mental health
Planning
- Planning Housing for Older People Developments Tracker - In association with the Tetlow King Planning, this document monitors current local authority planning consultations that may be of interest for those seeking to develop housing for older people. - Updated fortnightly.
Housing Design Awards – last few weeks
The 2020 Housing Design Awards are only open until Friday, 28 February – The Housing LIN are very proud to be one of the sponsors of this year’s Housing Design Awards. There’s only a few weeks left for you to enter this year’s competition. Visit the Housing Design Award website to see previous winners and to enter this year’s competition.
Training Opportunities
Autism - Some Different Perspectives. One day course, London
Due to popular demand we are offering 'Autism - Some Different Perspectives: A one-day course' as a group training session for individuals at our offices in Central London on 3rd April 2020. We are now taking bookings for the final places for this course, taking place to coincide with Autism Awareness Month 2020.
To book your place, or to discuss in-house training options (recommended for 8+ staff members), please email us: training@housinglin.org.uk.
The Mental Capacity Act and understanding the Liberty Protection Safeguards
We are offering a MCA and LPS one day training course.
The Housing LIN website has information on the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) to help raise your awareness of the MCA and its relevance to housing.
To further improve your understanding of the MCA and understanding of the forthcoming new Liberty Protection Safeguards legislation, this one day training course offers an interactive programme, covering all that you need to know in respect of working with people who might, at some time in their lives, lack capacity.
Next available course: Friday, 24 April 2020 at our offices in Central London.
To book your place, or to discuss in-house training options (recommended for 8+ staff members), please email us: training@housinglin.org.uk
Events
Housing LIN Annual Conference
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Next Week
Next week we have two concluding blog posts in our series celebrating the tenth anniversary of the first HAPPI report. Matthew Barac writes about conducting research for the HAPPI report, and Patrick Devlin discusses the architectural lessons we can learn from HAPPI. Also watch out for news about Home of 2030.
With Thanks
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.