Excellence in housing for our ageing population
ERoSH's director of policy Imogen Parry chaired the Housing Quality Network's (HQN) Ageing Communities Excellence Network (ACEnet) conference in April.
HQN's ACEnet invited key speakers to address its annual conference to discuss the Housing for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (HAPPI) report, produced by Communities and Local Government (CLG), the Department of Health (DH) and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA).
Imogen explained how the HAPPI report had been pulled together in double-quick time by the diverse 13-strong panel comprising key figures from the housing world, taking just six months from start to finish, and was launched at the end of 2009.
Imogen said that she felt that the housing projects in the report gave her an overwhelming impression of the passion, vision, imagination, dedication and tenacity of key individuals; and of very effective joint working by all the various professional disciplines and organisations involved.
Other guest speakers at the event included James Berrington, senior policy manager at the HCA; Jeremy Porteus, national programme lead for housing at the Department of Health; Judith Torrington, reader of architecture at Sheffield University, former practising architect and member of the HAPPI panel; Charlotte Harrison, director of policy and planning at the Northern Housing Consortium (NHC) and Nick Cross, head of housing management at Southampton City Council.
A copy of the full HAPPI Days - the ACEnet Annual Conference briefing paper is available with an overview of the topics discussed by the key speakers.
We are keen to hear your views on the HAPPI report, particularly if you have any further thoughts on key strategic and operational issues relating to sheltered housing buildings and services that have not been addressed by the HAPPI report or the Ministerial Working Group on Sheltered Housing. Please contact Imogen Parry with any feedback.
