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Friday, 22nd April 2022

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks.

Readers will be sad to learn that Care and Repair England have announced that after 36 years they are closing at the end of April. In response, I tweeted: “This is such sad news. You’ve been part of my professional upbringing since the start. I am proud to have served as a past Trustee and collaborate over the years on policy and practice developments for better housing quality, decent homes and information and advice services for older people.”

In this week's HLINks, we also draw attention to our most recent Housing LIN guest blog by Paul Willis, Associate Professor at the University of Bristol’s School for Policy Studies and Brian Beach, Research Fellow at University College London and formerly at ILC-UK. You can also sign up to hear from Paul about The DICE Project at our upcoming HAPPI Hour - Diversity in Care Environments: A better understanding of social inclusion of older people on Tuesday, 3 May 2022.

We also remind readers that the deadline to supply evidence to the current APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry, ‘Making retirement living affordable: the role of shared ownership housing’ is 4 May 2022.

And remember, you can also apply to become one of the Dunhill Medical Trust TAPPI2 “testbeds”. The deadline for submissions is 16 May 2022.

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Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy Porteus Jeremy Porteus
Chief Executive

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Housing schemes for older people helping to alleviate loneliness

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Co-published with CaCHE, this Housing LIN guest blog is written by Paul Willis, Associate Professor at the University of Bristol's School for Policy Studies and Brian Beach, Research Fellow at University College London and formerly at ILC-UK.

As members of the Diversity In Care Environments (DICE) Team, they reflect on the findings from the three-year study into the ways in which housing with care and support schemes support the inclusion of older residents from different social groups and backgrounds.

They reveal how and why these schemes do indeed play an important role in alleviating loneliness in later life and what this means for housing providers and resident.

Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing

Care and Repair England to close

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We are saddened to report that the housing charity and campaign organisation on older people’s housing, Care and Repair England, have announced that after 36 years they are closing at the end of the month.

We received notification that “in a challenging operating environment, raising funds for Care & Repair England’s efforts to work with older people, to identify their housing difficulties and pioneer solutions, to highlight the housing experiences and wishes of those who are marginalised, has become ever more difficult, and it is with great regret that the decision to close has been taken."

Jeremy Porteus

In response, Jeremy Porteus, CEO of Housing LIN tweeted:

“This is such sad news. You’ve been part of my professional upbringing since the start. I am proud to have served as a past Trustee and collaborate over the years on policy and practice developments for better housing quality, decent homes and information and advice services for older people.”

Design, Construction, Planning and Technology

TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation - Weekly update

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As we highlighted last week, further to the official launch of TAPPI2 From Principles to Implementation at the ITEC conference in Birmingham last month, the call for four TAPPI2 locality ‘testbeds’ remains open.

The closing date for applications is 16 May 2022.

Inside Housing Development Awards

Inside Housing Dev Awards

As we reported last week, the IHDA awards are now open and offers the opportunity to celebrate the very best residential developments across the UK over the past year. Categories include best older people’s development and best healthy homes development.

Entries are free of charge, and are open until midnight on 12 May 2022.

What else caught our interest?

Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability

New House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee Inquiry issues call for evidence

This Committee has launched an inquiry and published a call which seeks evidence of the ‘invisibility’ of adult social care, in particular “lifting the veil” on the impact for people with care needs and carers. It also seeks to explore how people are meaningfully involved in the design and delivery of care services.

Deadline for submissions is 27 May 2022.

What else caught our interest?

Dementia and Housing

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Open call: Take part in a University of Manchester survey into experiences of supporting your spouse, partner or family member living with dementia to live at home during the pandemic. Deadline for having your say is 30 June.

And, in association with the Dementia & Housing Working Group, we are delighted to be hosting a HAPPI Hour session on 31 May. This HAPPI Hour session will also provide an opportunity to demonstrate the Dementia and Housing padlet, a ‘go to’ dementia information hub, for use by policy makers, housing providers and developers, health and care professionals, those living with dementia and their carers, the home improvement sector, and building environment supply chains.

Scotland

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Join us for the rescheduled HAPPI Hour webinar, 'Housing LIN Scotland presents, in partnership with SFHA' on Tuesday, 26th April 4:00pm – 5:15pm

Following November's TAPPI Inquiry report launch, including Scottish examples of housing and care technology, we are pleased to host this HAPPI Hour session in partnership with Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) to take a look at the Scottish government's recent Digital health and care strategy.

Events

Watch, Listen & Learn

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You are invited to join our forthcoming HAPPI Hours!

In recognition of the success of our HAPPI Hour sessions, we are delighted that the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, have come on board as a sponsor of our online events.

We are also pleased to announce our exciting May programme of HAPPI Hour sessions. As featured below, we have a great selection of events approaching:

In next week’s HLINks

We look forward to next week’s HAPPI Hour - Housing LIN Scotland presents, in partnership with SFHA on Tuesday, 26 April 2022. We also expect the publication of the findings of Policy Connect’s recent Smart Homes and Independent Living Commission.

And finally, it is Global Intergenerational Week next week and we will be putting the spotlight on some of our intergenerational housing resources.

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The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.