Housing & Social Care Accessibility Summit

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Following a conversation with Simon Fitzpatrick for the Scottish Housing News Podcast, Jimmy Black thinks about wheels and lifts, beautiful new Blackwood Homes and folks stuck up thousands of tenement stairs. Wheels. Perhaps architects should have an app which lets them push a virtual pram through e

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Below is a full transcript of episode 63 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast titled ‘Accessible housing (part 4) with Simon Fitzpatrick'. Listen to the episode here.

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Scottish Housing News extends its thanks to all speakers and delegates who made the Housing & Social Care Accessibility Summit 2024 such a success. A packed and engaged audience heard from a number of insightful speakers across the day with early feedback singling out the tone, topics and venue

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“Partnership work is about relationships, it's knowing people, it's understanding each of us have roles and responsibilities but keeping in mind what we're all trying to achieve at the end of the day and that's the outcomes for people that live in our communities to allow them to thrive and su

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Jimmy Black hears about some great work happening in Perth & Kinross; then thinks about people excluded from the housing market by high prices and poverty. We’re running out of words. We’ve used “housing emergency” to explain the failure of our housing markets to provide

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Below is a full transcript of episode 62 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast titled ‘Accessible housing (part 3) with Jacquie Pepper and Elaine Ritchie’. Listen to the episode here.

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Jimmy Black hopes Integrated Joint Boards (IJBs) will find inspiration at the Housing & Social Care Accessibility Summit, after a chat with Hanover Scotland's Angela Currie.

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“If we don't grab and grab with both hands that prevention agenda, do more now, given we know what's coming our way from our demographics, then we are going to be in a much worse state than we are now in 10, 20 years time.” Kieran Findlay and Jimmy Black continue their exploration of the

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This year’s Housing & Social Care Accessibility Summit, organised by Horizon Housing and Scottish Housing News with sponsorship from Campion Homes and Hanover Scotland, has sold out.

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Below is a full transcript of episode 61 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast titled ‘Accessible housing (part 2) with Angela Currie’. Listen to the episode here.

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A video that showcases Horizon Housing's vital work to provide accessible housing and its campaign for health and social care providers to recognise the positive impact that accessible housing and adaptations can have on people's wellbeing has been released ahead of the upcoming Housing & Socia

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Bookings from Scottish housing associations and councils for this year's Housing & Social Care Accessibility Summit, to be held at the V&A in Dundee on September 26 and opened by housing minister Paul McLennan, are coming in thick and fast.

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“You can't do all of the things that people take for granted if you can't get in and out of your house.” In the run-up to the Housing & Social Care Accessibility Summit in Dundee, Jimmy Black and Kieran Findlay discuss the practical housing issues often confronted by people

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