I lasted about 3 minutes #bbcqt

Lovely to listen to the wisdom of @clentonf.bsky.social at the start of Day 2 with @commcats.bsky.social
We are with 100+ colleagues and activists at The Catalyst Newcastle University, getting visionary and practical about building neighbourhoods that enable Living Well.

At our @commcats.bsky.social event with the Nat Centre for Ageing at @newcastleuni.bsky.social David Robinson talks about the centrality of relationships to public services and many other areas of life. This led to his cofounding relationshipsproject.org

👉NEW #HLINblog!

Ahead of #HLINconf26, Nick Sinclair (Community Catalysts) shares four powerful stories, highlighting the impact of trust, time, strengths-based practice and the “relational buffer” of Local Area Coordination.

🔗Read here: www.housinglin.org.uk/blogs/Alongs...

Really loved this session. So much powerful, well informed challenge. So much focus on dignity and human sized responses with a good sprinkle of coproduction. THANK YOU

🏘️Prof Rose Gilroy (@newcastleuni.bsky.social) on older adults & housing landscape in the NE: frontline healthcare infrastructure insights shaping our ageing future, followed by Barbara Douglas (Elders Council NE) on listening to older people’s voices to guide housing & community policy #HLINconf26

🏠 #HLINconf26 – Laura Wood (ProCare) showcases inclusively-designed products fit for the future, highlighting where housing adaptations are currently going wrong and what we can do to fix the problem... it's not funding, it's delivery! #Housing #HeadlineSponsor

Our CEO Katy opened the @housinglin.bsky.social conference in Newcastle today, talking about our SHAPE Exchange partnership. Our Trustee and Chair for the SHAPE Advisory Group @profroseg.bsky.social spoke about the provision of housing for older people in the NE.
#HLINconf2026

🌳 #HLINconf26 – Carly Dickson (ARUP) presents the Age-friendly Town & Parish Guide: co-creating strategies with locals for better community outcomes produced in partnership with Housing LIN for the Centre for Ageing Better. Read the full guide at www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...

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🤝 #HLINconf26 – Nick Sinclair (Community Catalysts) on relationship-based, community-centred support for those facing housing instability. Read his recent #HLINblog with 4 stories of local area coordination here: www.housinglin.org.uk/blogs/Alongs...

Customer Service (sic). Why oh why oh why is everything so difficult and time consuming. Feel sure companies are saving money with 'press 1' 'do what's app' 'live chat' bots and overseas call centres with scripts. BUT has anyone analysed the actual cost...to people and productivity!!?? 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

Today's news makes me strangely proud to be British

Just watched The Librarians on BBC I player. Really recommend. Affecting. Might be one for you @mrjamesob.bsky.social 😐

I just signed up to @thenerve.news ...drawn by the splendid @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and a promise of light being shone in dark places. In the welcome email I was struck by 'have nerve! Courage is contagious'. Seems so relevant for our work @ WIGO and Social Care Future @mroutled.bsky.social ?

HI @skourkos.bsky.social and welcome to BlueSky 👋
Lots of #PPI people to follow on here: go.bsky.app/PWEAnFR. Let me know if you'd like to be added and/or have suggestions for other people to include 😊

NEW: Trump administration launches direct military strikes on Venezuela. Explosions reported in Caracas. Aircraft reported flying over the city.

Good morning. Let's make a collective resolution: this will be the year in which we start to turn things round.

Thank you @london.gov.uk ...a welcome message of hope, unity, positivity and strength in diversity. All that makes our country amazing. We need this right now...loud. London leading the way #newyearlondon

My sector is social care & community. A plea to @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the Green Party to respect & value everyone in my world & get creative. We need to think hard about (& plan for) our future selves. Us not them. Lives not bums!

Think social care and say '. Each is a person. And how we treat them (and talk about them and the help that they need) tells us everything about the kind of country we are choosing to be." Please please please

Respectfully I really wish the @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social especially would look at social care from the exact same perspective - with the same respect for every person who draws on it. All individuals with hopes & dreams & challenges. Sometimes in crisis but never a crisis.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

Sometimes the 'official' easyread versions of government documents and guidance are the best versions...for all of us...they cut to the chase imho 🙂 . Hope you find what you need

Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.

New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I wonder if @learningdiseng.bsky.social know of anything in easyread on this?

‘Outdated and ever less fit for purpose’: five takeaways from the carer’s allowance report Dysfunctional DWP failed to notify some carers that they were accruing enormous debt for years, Liz Sayce’s damning report reveals

‘Outdated and ever less fit for purpose’: five takeaways from the carer’s allowance report

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Personal Health Budgets (PHB) change people’s lives & offer value for ££. New @commcats.bsky.social report packed with people's stories 👇 @tlap.bsky.social @martinwalkersds.bsky.social @juestanny.bsky.social @mroutled.bsky.social @clentonf.bsky.social www.communitycatalysts.co.uk/publications...

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