Housing LIN 2016/17 (quarterly update) Jeremy Porteus Director

Housing LIN update Funding news: Ministerial Statement: LHA cap update. Consultation on implementation of the new funding for supported housing. Held London workshop last month. Submission deadline is Monday, 13 February 2017 CLG Select Committee inquiry on Housing for Older People http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/communities-and-local-government-committee/inquiries/parliament-2015/inquiry7/ Government’s Housing and Planning White Paper  https://www.24housing.co.uk/news/the-housing-white-paper-the-overview/

Housing LIN update Funding news: Department of Health Housing and Technology Fund £25m (allocated). See: http://www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/browse/ HousingLearningDisabilities/IndependentLiving/ ExtraCareLDsites/?parent=6075&child=10267 GLA Affordable Housing Programme Continuous Market Engagement. 2016-21 Funding Guidance includes HAPPI at: http://www.housinglin.org.uk/HousingRegions/London/?parent=1027&child=10345 Awaiting further info on next Phase of DH Care & Support Specialised Housing Fund.

Housing LIN – we need your help Work for NHF on DTOC: Do you have examples of transformative health, care and/or support services that demonstrate greater cost effectiveness, reduce demand, improve quality, deliver better outcomes, showcase innovative new models of care at home or housing development etc for inclusion in our report? If so, please email info@housinglin.org.uk. Work for LGA on recent Housing Commission report. Looking to highlight 7 councils that have exemplar housing and ageing strategies.

Housing LIN update Housing for Older People awards. Entries now open for EAC awards. Deadline for submitting entries is 28 February 2017. Online voting at awards.eac.org.uk. Ceremony - Edgbaston Cricket Ground Housing LIN annual conference date set – 24 March 2017. Bookings go live shortly on a ‘first come, first serve’ basis

Housing LIN Update A selection of recent Housing LIN blogs offering thought-leadership: The baby boomers come of age – and open up a market (to coincide with the CLG select committee and government’s Housing and Planning White Paper) A DEAF UTOPIA - 'Extra Care Village' for Deaf and Hard of Hearing older people Home is where the heart is (is care in the community failing vulnerable people?) View at: http://www.housinglin.org.uk/blogs/

Housing LIN update New Housing LIN Case Studies/reports Highs and lows – cottage HAPPIness: Quality designs for later life housing. http://www.housinglin.org.uk/_library/Resources/Housing/Support_materials/Reports/HLIN_CaseStudyReport_2016HDAs.pdf Evaluating extra care – valuing what really matters… The case for taking relationships seriously (Strand Court, NE Lincs) http://www.housinglin.org.uk/HousingRegions/NorthEast/?&msg=0&parent=1019&child=10355 Approaches to integrated housing, health and social care services: case studies from North Tyneside Council and Northumbria NHS http://www.housinglin.org.uk/HousingRegions/NorthEast/?&msg=0&parent=1019&child=10343

Housing LIN update New Housing LIN Factsheet and Viewpoints Medication in extra care housing (factsheet no23, updated) http://www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/browse/HousingExtraCare/ExtraCareProvision/SupportServices/?&msg=0&parent=990&child=2544 The ‘spirit of living’ in Woodchester Valley Village: Reflections on life in Britain’s first mutually owned retirement village (Gloucestershire) http://www.housinglin.org.uk/HousingRegions/SouthWest/?&msg=0&parent=1025&child=10342 Personalisation and growing old well with dementia http://www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/browse/HousingandDementia/Practice/Practice/?&msg=0&parent=5152&child=10334

Other Housing LIN activities Launch of ‘Design for Downsizers’, the final report from the University of Sheffield School of Architecture Chaired ADASS and Tunstall on housing and technology enabled care seminar in York. Follow up planned in London next month Support role to Welsh Government’s Expert Group on Housing for Older People (report due w/c 13 February 2017) Working with Department of Health on Better Care at Home programme and selection of ‘quick guides’ at: http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/keogh-review/Pages/quick-guides.aspx

Housing LIN consultancy Underpinning your learning and improvement Developed new service webpages setting our consultancy, training and wider fee paying services to supplement our free online and regional Housing LIN networking activities. Examples of work include Strategic Housing for Older People Market Analysis Writing local authority extra care housing strategies Undertaking sheltered housing ‘fit for purpose’ reviews Advising on telecare and digital care service improvements Making the business case for integrated care, health and housing Modelling new models of at home care and support For more details, contact: info@housinglin.org.uk

Future activities & resources In the pipeline: London LIN case studies on OWCH co-housing project in Barnet and Barking & Dagenham ‘care city’ planning policy Working with Kings College London on an evaluation of telecare and why the Whole System Demonstrator sites failed to ignite Refreshed Housing LIN website going ‘live’ later this month New Housing and Dementia Charter being launched w/c 20 February 2017 Let us know if you would like to write a blog, viewpoint, case study or report for the Housing LIN. We welcome you input!

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