Improving home improvement services: Challenges in recruitment and retention

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Home Improvement: A Triple Dividend

Here are the three briefings Ageing Better has produced with the cross-party think tank Demos, supported by Dunhill Medical Trust, exploring the multiple benefits from improving the safety, heating and accessibility of homes.

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Improving homes: Good Home Hubs

We believe the key to improving people's homes and keeping them warm and dry are easy to use, local one-stop shops for information and support. We call this a Good Home Hub.

Safe Homes Now Spotlight: Black and Minority Ethnic Communities

In this third spotlight by Ageing Better, Runnymede, Race Equality Foundation and People’s Health Trust, we look at the disproportionate impact of poor-quality homes on people from Black and minority ethnic communities.

People should not have to live like this: Time to end the poor-quality housing crisis

Housing activist Kwajo Tweneboa has seen some of the most horrific living conditions faced by tenants across the UK in his years of social justice campaigning.

Safe Homes Now Spotlights: Cold homes

Cold, unsafe and poor-quality homes have serious health consequences for millions of people in Britain today.

One in five older people living in a home which could make them sicker this winter

New data from Ageing Better reveals the scale of the country’s poor quality housing crisis and the widespread impact it is having on the nation’s health.

More than 2.5 million pensioners losing their Winter Fuel Payments have incomes below levels needed for a dignified life

New analysis from the Centre for Ageing Better reveals that millions of pensioners on very low incomes will have to make do without a Winter Fuel Payment this year.

Investing to support people with health conditions and improving their wellbeing and financial security

One of the government’s first acts on taking the keys to Downing Street was the removal of Winter Fuel Payments for all pensioners.

Improving home improvement services: Challenges in recruitment and retention

This briefing outlines key resource challenges in recruitment and retention, staffing structures and accessing funding that local authorities face in delivering home improvement services.