30 September – 4 October 2024
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A week highlighting the importance of homes and community as a key building block for health and wellbeing.
Healthy Homes, Healthy Places Week will take place between 30 September and 4 October 2024.
Join us in showing healthy homes are more than just bricks and mortar, they provide the foundation from which people and communities can thrive. Get involved in Healthy Homes, Healthy Places Week.
The week we will bring together organisations who are passionate about working together to show the positive impact that good quality, safe homes and places have on our health and wellbeing.
During the week we’ll be diving into the following topics alongside the available resources:
- Hazards in the home
- Fuel poverty and retrofitting
- Health and housing partnerships
- Supported and specialist housing
Get involved in Healthy Homes, Healthy Places Week
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You’re invited to help us amplify and highlight the important work taking place in this area during the week. You can do this by sharing your support, photos and stories with us on social media.
Get started by downloading our social media toolkit and digital assets today.
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Join in
Monday 30 September
Webinar: Health starts at home – progress on tackling damp and mould
To kick start the week, this webinar looked at the critical issue of tackling damp and mould and the progress being made across the sector. Recording will be available to CIH members soon.
Tuesday 1 October
Videocast: Tackling fuel poverty and retrofitting for health
On day two, we will release this videocast examining what organisations are doing to integrate enhanced health and wellbeing benefits into their energy efficiency and retrofit strategies.
Wednesday 2 October
Videocast: Reflections on the power of partnership – in conversation with Aileen Evans (GUHG), Richard Hill (bpha) and Liz Parsons (public health)
Day three, our videocast will focus on collaboration, and tackling health inequalities in communities by working in partnership.
Thursday 3 October
Webinar: Addressing health inequalities: supported housing and health
In this session we brought together providers of supported housing to demonstrate the long-term health benefits their services provide to residents. The webinar will be online shortly for CIH members to watch back.
Friday 4 October
Wrapping up Healthy Homes, Heathy Places Week we’ll be reflecting on the week’s activity and the critical role quality, secure homes play in being the building blocks for health and wellbeing.
Resources to help you
We have curated a wide range of supporting resources to from CIH and key stakeholders to help support and inform you on key topics.
CIH resources:
- Knowledge Hub: Climate and sustainability
- A social energy tariff: The benefits of energy market reform for the social housing sector
- Webinar recording: Navigating climate change and the cost of living crisis (Member only)
- Blog: Why cheap fixes are failing our homes: how landlords can unlock a sustainable future for accessible homes
- Blog: Feeling the heat
Other useful resources:
- Orbit Group: 2500 Days Navigating the path to net zero carbon homes with our customers
- Northern Housing Consortium: The social housing tenants’ climate jury
- Barnsley's Affordable Warmth Charter Mark
- Barnsley MBC: Housing Strategy
- Barnsley MBC: Make your home warmer and cheaper to run
- Barnsley MBC: More Money in Your Pocket - cost of living support
- Berneslai Homes: Damp and mould
- NICE guidelines (NG6): Excess winter deaths and illness and the health risks associated with cold homes.
- UK Government: Adverse Weather and Health Plan
CIH resources:
- Sharing the art of the possible: developing stronger health and housing partnerships
- Expanding the art of the possible: the role for health, care and housing partnerships in the developing local framework
- Building blocks for life: Housing and healthy neighbourhoods
- Building blocks for life: How to develop effective health and housing partnerships
- Blog: Helping to tackle health inequalities
- Blog: Why ‘decent homes’ simply isn’t good enough
- Podcast: Health and housing partnerships
- Webinar recording: Building Blocks for Life: Positive Partnerships Across Health and Housing (Member only)
Other useful resources:
CIH resources:
- What you need to know about the Social Housing (Regulation) Act (Member only)
- What you need to know about the Supported Housing (Regulator Oversight) Act 2023 (Member only)
- Blog: Looking to the future: meeting need for supported and older person’s housing
- Sector showcase: Housing and independent living (Member only)
Other useful resources:
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