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Friday, 10 June 2022

Welcome back to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks. I hope you enjoyed the long-weekend, Jubilee celebrations!

Last week, we shared a new Housing LIN guest blog by Professor Roy Sandbach OBE, TAPPI inquiry Chair, who champions the project’s ten core principles and argues that constructive dialogue and delivery are two key components to meaningful innovation that will be explored as part of Phase 2, a TEC Services Association and Housing LIN collaboration, funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust.

We also hosted a HAPPI Hour with the Dementia and Housing Working Group (DHWG) who launched a new interactive, information sharing resource which pools together the existing assistance, guidance, and research on dementia. DHWG also published a drafted outline specification for providers in the private and social housing sectors to take forward Recommendation 35 of the All Party Parliamentary Group’s Inquiry report, to appoint a Board Dementia Champion.

This week, we were delighted to share a new Housing LIN guest blog by Kirklees Council’s Head of Housing Management & Partnerships, Michelle Anderson-Dore who reveals ‘what’s next’ following new research findings on ethnic minority housing preferences and needs. It’s also Pride Month and we’ll be supporting the LGBTQ+ community by drawing your attention to our Diversity Matters resources, such as The Future of LGBTQ+ Living Leeds Survey Report published earlier this year by Pride of Place Leeds.

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Jeremy Porteus Jeremy Porteus
Chief Executive

New Housing LIN products

How technology can and must support us all to live better, for longer

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In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Professor Roy Sandbach OBE, Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) inquiry Chair and former Director of the National Innovation Centre for Ageing at Newcastle University, reflects on the use of technology and remaining independent, for longer especially when immediate care provision isn’t provided in the first instance. He further shares his own “wish-list” for what should follow the outcomes of the work.

Older People from Ethnic Minorities Housing Needs & Perception Study 2021

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This Housing LIN guest blog, by Michelle Anderson-Dore, Head of Housing Management & Partnerships at Kirklees Council, follows the launch of ‘Older People from Ethnic Minorities in Kirklees: Housing Needs and Preferences Study’, new research revealing how preferences in the ageing ethnic minority population affects housing needs in Kirklees. She reveals where they plan to go from here and how they'll ensure the valuable insights into the housing needs of older people from ethnic minorities is used appropriately.

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Ageing Better's new strategy, launched today

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The Centre for Ageing Better's new strategy, launched today, builds on their existing work and focuses even further on how they can make a real difference for older people and all of us as we age. This includes a new public campaign tackling the scourge of everyday ageism.

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Design, Construction, Planning and Technology

Centre For Accessible Environments’ survey: Wheelchair Accessible Housing

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This Centre for Accessible Environments' survey, in association with Homefinder UK and Habinteg, seeks to find out how easy or difficult it is to let wheelchair accessible properties. You’re invited to complete this brief survey in order to find out what barriers you have experienced in letting wheelchair accessible properties.

You are also encouraged to share this survey with all personnel/teams involved in the process e.g. from inspecting empty properties through to lettings and allocations or with other partner organisations. 

They aim to share the learnings from this survey and any solutions to the issues that are identified.

Deadline is Thursday 24th June

TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation - Weekly update

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Ahead of the Queen’s Jubilee, we were delighted to join Professor Roy Sandbach OBE, TAPPI Inquiry Chair, the ‘Co-Production and Engagement’ and ‘Evaluation and Shared Learning’ partners, collaborating with the TEC Services Association, for the first in-person meeting since the official launch of TAPPI: Phase 2!

We look forward to announcing the successful partners, as well as the four locality “testbeds”, in due course.

Would you like to receive regular TAPPI2 updates direct to your inbox? If you haven’t already, please remember to update your Housing LIN profile and tick the ‘Telecare and Digital Technology’ topic.

Otherwise you can find out more on this exciting programme that aims ensure that the evidence gathered by the Inquiry in TAPPI1 is built upon and used to create a widely accepted Framework which embeds the recommended TAPPI Principles within a transformational change programme, visit the TAPPI2 microsite, hosted by the Housing LIN.

What else caught our interest?

Health and social care, mental health and learning disability

An independent review of health and adult social care leadership

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The Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid has welcomed the publication of an independent review of health and adult social care leadership, led by General Sir Gordon Messenger and Dame Linda Pollard - and, in what will be the biggest shake-up in health and social care leadership in a generation, is accepting all seven transformative recommendations they have put forward.

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Dementia and Housing

A new information sharing resource on housing and dementia launched

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Launched at the Housing LIN's HAPPI Hour webinar on behalf of the Dementia & Housing Working Group, this information 'padlet' is an ever-growing and developing resource, which pools together the existing assistance, guidance, and research on dementia. It is home for all the best information, advice, and support for people with dementia, their families, and carers as well as policy makers, practitioners, and academics.

Looking to appoint a Board Dementia Champion? The DHWG provides an outline specification

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This paper by the Dementia and Housing Working Group provides an outline specification for providers in the private and social housing sectors to take forward Recommendation 35 of the All Party Parliamentary Group’s Inquiry report: ‘Housing for People with Dementia–Are We Ready?’; namely to appoint dementia ‘champions’ at executive / senior management / board level.

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Scotland

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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.

Events supported by the Housing LIN

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Next week’s HLINks

In next week's HLINks, we look forward to sharing a new Housing LIN guest blog in association with Lovell Later Living.

We are also keeping an eye out for two new reports by Stonewater and Foundations.

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