HLINks: New Housing LIN blog series and news, resources, and events
This week we’re looking forward to our Vision 2020 conference by introducing a new series of guest posts from our Housing LIN blogs.
We also have a range of new resources, news, and events, from across the housing, technology, planning, health, and social care sectors.
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Housing LIN Blogs
Vision 2020 series
The Housing LIN Annual Conference is being held next month in Manchester.
The theme for this year’s sold out conference is Vision 2020, and over the next few weeks we are publishing a new series of guest blogposts outlining the challenges facing the housing with care and specialist housing sectors in the next decade.
The How, What and Why of Leadership
Bruce Moore, Chief Executive of Housing 21, writes for the Housing LIN about defining leadership and how good leadership can be extended to every level of an organisation. He discusses the importance of the authentic self and how the attributes of a ‘good leader’ are almost impossible to pin down.
Vision 2020 For Our Sector
In this guest blog Paul Watson presents a personal reflection on the challenges facing extra care housing in the coming decade.
"As a sector, housing associations have made a tremendous contribution in developing new extra care housing over the last 30 years; now is the time to pinpoint a vision for the next generation of housing association activity"
Unleashing the Digital Premium
This new report by the Good Governance Institute for Legrand Assisted Living and Healthcare calls for immediate action to embrace digital solutions, building on a programme of research and engagement with senior leaders from the health, care, and housing sectors.
Speaking at this week’s launch in the House of Lords, the Housing LIN’s Jeremy Porteus said:
“Going digital is now an essential utility. Just like gas, electricity and water, we need the digital tap turned on.”
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
- Affordable Care Commission: Housing crisis disrupts family life, new opinion poll shows – This new poll from the AHC shows housing stress is potentially stopping nearly 2m people from having children, and unaffordable housing is contributing to mental health problems.
- Ageing and Society Journal: Interdependence, commitment, learning and love. The case of the United Kingdom's first older women's co-housing community – requires access to read.
- BBC Video: Talking to your neighbours is mandatory if you live here - You can only live in this block of flats if you are under 25 or a pensioner - and you have to socialise. It's all part of a plan to help tackle loneliness.
- TPAS: L&Q Residents Exhibit their Art Skills at London Gallery – A group of L&Q residents were given free art lessons and now their work is being exhibited at Hoxton 253 gallery.
- Local Government Association: Making Safeguarding Personal Outcomes Framework - The Making Safeguarding Personal Outcomes Framework (MSPOF)1was developed to provide a means of promoting and measuring practice that supports an outcomes focus and person led approach to safeguarding adults.
- Longevity Centre UK: Advantage GM - Unlocking the longevity economy for Greater Manchester - This report sets out the findings of research by the International Longevity Centre UK responding to the new Local Industrial Strategy for Greater Manchester, and how to harness the economic opportunities of ageing.
Health and Social Care
- Health Equity In England: The Marmot Review 10 Years On – The Marmot Review 10 Years On builds on the influential 2010 Marmot Review, which looked at the growing health inequalities in England, developed as a result from concerns across both the Labour and Conservative-coalition governments about economic and social inequalities creating widespread health inequality.
- NHS Clinical Commissioners: Advancing population health management - This report brings together population health management stories from ten different areas of England. Together, they demonstrate the progress that has been already been made in advancing this approach to healthcare, and what more will need to be done.
- Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network: The health of the nation - Following the publication of the APPG for Longevity’s latest report Des Holden, Medical Director at KSS AHSN and Implementation Lead for the Applied Research Collaboration KSS, reflects on the impact of longevity within health and social care.
Design and Technology
- Habinteg: "As people get older, the chance of acquiring a physical impairment increases" In this short video Sheron Carter, CEO of Habinteg, discusses why we urgently need more accessible homes for our ageing and disabled population.
Homelessness
- The Independent: I was homeless for a year – the solution is not more housing, it’s better mental health services
- St Mungo’s: Homelessness: thousands ‘knocked back’ from life-saving treatment – A new report from St Mungo’s that reports on research which says that 12,000 people experiencing homelessness missed out on vital drug and alcohol services last year. Read the report here.
Scotland
- Scottish Housing News: Tenants can get digital with Berwickshire Housing Association - Berwickshire Housing Association has created a team of digital champions to help improve tenants’ digital confidence levels.
- Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland: Homes not Houses – This editions of the CIHS’s Homes not Houses series is about Housing and Ageing, and looks at adaptations, housing for older people, and reducing social isolation and loneliness.
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. The tracker is updated fortnightly.
Housing Design Awards
Deadline for Submissions Extended
The deadline for submissions for this year’s Housing Design Awards has been extended until 3rd March
The Housing LIN are very proud to be one of the sponsors of this year’s Housing Design Awards. There are now only one week 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.
Did you know? Housing LIN Training courses
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 on Friday 24th April 2020, in London.
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.
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
- Vision 2020: New approaches to housing and ageing. Housing LIN Annual Conference & Exhibition, Manchester (registration now closed)
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Next Week
We are pleased to release the next two guest blogs in our Vision 2020 series looking forward to our annual conference.
In the first, Motion Spot’s Ed Warner sets out what we need to do in order to meet the new Housing Minister’s plan to ‘build better and build beautiful’.
And in the second, Zillah Moore, Tunstall Healthcare’s Marketing Director writes about her experience attending the joint Housing LIN Local Government Association digital roundtable event earlier this month.
With Thanks
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.