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

2. 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
Government’s Housing and Planning White Paper 

3. Housing LIN update Funding news:
Department of Health Housing and Technology Fund £25m (allocated). See: HousingLearningDisabilities/IndependentLiving/ ExtraCareLDsites/?parent=6075&child=10267
GLA Affordable Housing Programme Continuous Market Engagement Funding Guidance includes HAPPI at:
Awaiting further info on next Phase of DH Care & Support Specialised Housing Fund.

4. 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
Work for LGA on recent Housing Commission report. Looking to highlight 7 councils that have exemplar housing and ageing strategies.

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

6. 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:

7. Housing LIN update New Housing LIN Case Studies/reports
Highs and lows – cottage HAPPIness: Quality designs for later life housing.
Evaluating extra care – valuing what really matters… The case for taking relationships seriously (Strand Court, NE Lincs)
Approaches to integrated housing, health and social care services: case studies from North Tyneside Council and Northumbria NHS

8. Housing LIN update New Housing LIN Factsheet and Viewpoints
Medication in extra care housing (factsheet no23, updated)
The ‘spirit of living’ in Woodchester Valley Village: Reflections on life in Britain’s first mutually owned retirement village (Gloucestershire)
Personalisation and growing old well with dementia

9. 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:

10. 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:

11. 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!

12. Connecting with the Housing LIN
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