How does digital connectivity support and enhance a good home?
In this webinar, hosted by the Good Home Inquiry, we examined how a digitally connected home supports and enhances a good home and how we can ensure more people are connected in ways that work for them in their existing homes.
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By exploring how a digitally connected home supports and enhances a good home, we looked at the main challenges and innovative solutions to ensure more people are connected in ways that work for them in their existing homes. In particular, how good quality connectivity in and around the home, together with technology, can support people. We discussed the benefits in communication, health outcomes and safety, as well as enhancements in daily life in the home itself.
Speakers
- Event chair: David Orr, Chair, the Good Home Inquiry
- Helen Burrows, Content and Services Policy Director, BT
- Emma Stone, Director of Design and Research, Good Things Foundation
- Ceri Roberts, Strategic Funding Manager, E.ON
About The Good Home Inquiry
Around 10 million people in England currently live in a home that presents a serious threat to their health and safety – defined by the government as ‘non-decent’ homes. About 1.8 million adults are living in damp and/or cold housing and, of these, more than one in ten people are living with health conditions potentially caused or exacerbated by poor housing, causing them to be ‘at risk’ of COVID-19.
The Good Home Inquiry, launched in July 2020, will run until mid-2021 in order to establish why so many of England’s homes are in poor condition, as well as exploring what we need in a good home and creating evidence-based recommendations for new and amended housing policies to make it easier to upgrade, maintain and improve our homes.
The Good Home Inquiry is sponsored by Ageing Better and independently chaired by David Orr CBE. He is joined by a panel of three leading experts – Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, Vidhya Alakeson, and Pat Ritchie CBE – bringing a diverse range of experience and expertise to the Inquiry.
The Inquiry supports the Centre for Ageing Better’s goal of reducing the number of homes as ‘non-decent’ by at least one million by 2030.
Find out more about The Good Home Inquiry
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