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This week’s news has been dominated by the Prime Minister’s announcement on the Government’s plan for health and social care. Where we welcome the reference to housing and the need to live well and independent in our own homes for as long as possible, there is still anxiety around insufficient funding to meet future care. With the deliverables from this plan unlikely to take shape until October 2023, the Housing LIN is supportive of Methodists Homes’ #FixCareForAll as an important and timely campaign calling for immediate government action.
In other news, this week we celebrated our new sponsor of the Housing LIN’s dedicated Sight loss, Home and the Built Environment webpages, West Waddy Archadia (WWA). And, to coincide with this announcement, Mark Slater, Design Director at WWA, explores macro and micro scales when working on architecture, urban design and planning for blind and partially sighted people in a new Housing LIN guest blog.
You can also take a tour of relevant resources and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more. We highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:
- The Government’s plan on health and social care after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Report by the APPG on Dementia that calls for Government to deliver on its manifesto commitment and fund the Dementia Moonshot.
And remember, you can now sign up to attend this month's HAPPIHour webinar sessions. We're delighted to kick off the Autumn series on Sep 21 on 'Investing in Ideal Homes' with Winckworth Sherwood, followed by Sep 28 when we take 'a practical look at intergenerational living'.
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Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email 'Jeremy talks' at: info@housinglin.org.uk
Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.
Jeremy
NEW HOUSING LIN PRODUCTS
New Housing LIN guest blog: Getting on site: Taking a macro and micro approach
We’re delighted to announce that architects, West Waddy Archadia (WWA), are the new sponsors of the Housing LIN’s dedicated Sight loss, Home and the Built Environment webpages.
And, to coincide with this announcement, Mark Slater, Design Director at WWA, explores and micro scales when working on architecture, urban design and planning for blind and partially sighted people in this new Housing LIN guest blog.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
Despite the easing of lockdown restrictions, Coronavirus is still a serious threat in the UK. It is therefore essential that those working in our sector remain fully aware of the continued risk of infection and the risk to both our own lives and the public at large. Check out our Coronavirus Info Hub which includes a range of Housing LIN practice briefings for the sector and links to other useful information and websites.
And if you missed the recent launch of the St Monica Trust/Housing LIN RE-COV Study, that ‘state of the nation’ report on COVID-19 and its impact on the retirement village and extra care housing sector, you can download the presenters’ powerpoints and watch a recording of the HAPPI Hour session.
HOUSING, COMMUNITY, DISABILITY, AND AGEING
Designed for Ageing - Formal Competition Briefing Event & Collaborators’ Club
Designed for Ageing is a Healthy Ageing Challenge grant funding opportunity which is opening on 20th September 2021. Awards of up to £2m are available for business-led service innovations that address the challenges of ageing and have ambition to scale.
The competition comprises a unique design stage gate mechanism to ensure that good people-centred design principles are followed, to maximise potential market share. Applications must be business-led but collaborations with other organisations are welcomed. Find out more at UKRI's formal briefing event on 21st September and register to meet potential application partners at the Collaborator’s Club.
DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, PLANNING AND TECHNOLOGY
What caught our interest
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE, MENTAL HEALTH AND LEARNING DISABILITY
Government announce more will be done to support and enable integration between health and social care
Health and social care is fundamental to us all, especially after COVID-19 brought into sharp relief how critical the effective delivery of public services is across the UK.
The Government is therefore announcing a significant investment in health and social care of around £12 billion per year on average across the UK.
Commenting on today’s announcement, the Housing LIN’s CEO, Jeremy Porteus, stated:
“We need a concrete plan that not only invests to meet the current shortfall in health and social care spend but also puts in place the footings to build a sustainable system that offers real choices for the future, including specifically boosting the supply of housing with care as a viable alternative.”
What else caught our interest?
- NCF: Widening the debate on social care reform beyond a cap on costs
- Delivering together for residents a joint solace and NHS report
- Are you involved in adult social care? IMPACT, a new UK centre dedicated to improving adult social care, want to hear from you by 8th October!
HOUSING and Dementia
Report calls for Government to deliver on its manifest commitment and fund the Dementia Moonshot
This report’s central recommendation is for the Government to deliver on its manifesto commitment and fund the Dementia Moonshot as soon as possible, working with stakeholders to establish a timetable for this funding to be brought forward. Accompanying this central call to the Government, the report also makes several recommendations.
APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry Report
Did you miss this recent APPG Inquiry report?
Watch and listen again to the launch of the new report on housing and dementia here and be inspired by Wendy Mitchell as she shares her personal story about living with dementia.
And did you miss our HAPPI Hour sessions on housing and dementia last month? The recording and presentations are now available.
Wales
Scotland
Events
Sign up to our Autumn HAPPI Hour sessions
Have we got an exciting programme of HAPPI Hour live-streams to quench you thirst starting this month. Please note the change of the day of our sessions from Thursday to Tuesday!
- HAPPI Hour - Investing in Ideal Homes - 21/09/2021 4:00pm till 5:25pm
- HAPPI Hour - A practical look at intergenerational living - 28/09/2021 4:00pm till 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Reimagining Care: Caring Times - 05/10/2021 4:00pm till 5:30pm
- HAPPI Hour - Passivhaus for Active Ageing - 12/10/2021 4:00pm till 5:30pm
- HAPPI Hour - Intergenerational living is the future – where are the opportunities? - 19/10/2021 2:30pm till 4:45pm
- HAPPI Hour - Tap into the TAPPI Inquiry report launch - 26/10/2021 4:00pm till 5:30pm
- HAPPI Hour - From Moving On to Moving In - 02/11/2021 4:00pm till 5:15pm
You may be interested in these other events supported by the Housing LIN
- EU Settlement Scheme Webinars - 26/08/2021 till 15/09/2021
- Creating Age-Friendly Homes in Greater Manchester - 14/09/2021 4:00pm till 5:00pm
- National challenges in Healthy Ageing locally understood - 15/09/2021 10:00am till 11:00am
- Foundations - DFG Champions Roadshow 2021 -16/09/2021 till 28/09/2021
- HDRC Webinar - What does “build back better” mean for people living with dementia in extra care and retirement housing? - 21/09/2021 12:30pm till 2:30pm
- UKRI - Designed for Ageing: Competition Briefing Event, Followed by Collaborators Club - 21/09/2021 2:00pm till 4:30pm
- Appello’s Customer Update Webinar - 23/09/21 01:30pm
- Housing 21 Conference - Is housing responding to the diverse needs of older people? - 06/10/2021 10:00am till 4:00pm
- Healthy City Design 2021 - 11/10/2021 till 14/10/2021
In next week’s HLINks
Next week we look forward to celebrating Scottish Housing Day, announcing our new sponsor of the Welsh webpages, and sharing two influential reports; the first by Greater Manchester’s Combined Authority and the second by the Centre for Ageing Better.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.