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Centre for Ageing Better
1 Oct 2017

Home adaptations infographics

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Improving the quality of homes – finding shared goals and a common drive across the county

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Adam Newman-Pring
23 May 2025
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Safe Homes Now Spotlight: Black and Minority Ethnic Communities

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

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Building effective local home improvement services

Building effective local home improvement services: Good Home Hubs

How can we set up information and support hubs that help us improve our homes?

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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.

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How Wolverhampton Homes is making a difference in its communities

The Good Home Network brings together local authority housing managers from all over England to share challenges and find new ways to improve poor-quality homes.

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Leeds

Our mission to ensure everyone benefits from living in a good home

The quality of a home has a fundamental bearing on an individual’s health and wellbeing and yet millions of people in England endure the hardship of living in sub-standard housing.

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Why are 9,000 annual cold home deaths met with such a shrug of indifference?

Widespread media coverage has been detailing the death of Barbara Bolton who was found by her grandson slumped at her kitchen table and unable to speak because of profound hypothermia.

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Extremely short-sighted to drop £300 million housing funding amongst wider social care cuts

The government has confirmed that funding to integrate housing into local health and care strategies has fallen victim to budget cuts.

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Tragedy of Barbara Bolton's death will sadly not be the last this winter

News of the 87-year-old from Bury’s death in hospital this month following treatment for hypothermia has shocked the country.

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Energy blackouts could lead to increase in serious falls in the home

More than 600,000 older people will be at significant risk of harm from a potential energy blackout this winter due to the poor quality of their housing.

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