Subscribers to HousingCare’s Premium service now have the opportunity to create a profile page explaining who they are and showcasing their housing developments. The first to take advantage of this new feature are: Housing & Care 21 McCarthy & Stone Similar pages are also offered to key trade organisations in the later life housing and […]

This guide is based on the experience of EAC FirstStop working with local FirstStop partners. It offers commissioners model clauses which can be used in specifications describing services providing housing and related care and finance advice for people in later life. The Care Act 2014, and Guidance, places new duties on local authorities to ensure […]

EAC are excited to be working with the Law Commission in hosting an event on the 14th of January that will bring together the leaders in retirement leasehold housing. This event comes as the Commission’s consultation into ‘Event Fees’ in residential leases draws to a close at the end of the month. EAC has played […]

The Care Act 2014 and the associated Guidance places a duty on local authorities to ensure that integrated information and advice services spanning social care, housing and related finance are available to all. In addition there is growing pressure on the NHS and Social Care to move towards prevention and away from crisis interventions, delivering […]

EAC’s new blog is aimed at people working in FirstStop’s field of information & advice for older people and their families around housing, care and related finance – as well as relevant policy makers, commissioners, academics and potential funders/investors. For the last two decades or more there has been a broader move to position welfare […]

To coincide with the launch of its new website (http://www.thorngate.org.uk), Thorngate Almshouse Trust has become for first almshouse charity to subscribe to EAC’s HousingCare Premium Service. Thorngate owns and manages three sheltered housing schemes and one care home in Gosport, Hampshire. Founded in 1868 by two Gosport families; the Thorngates and the Churchers, the Trust […]

Nationwide has committed a further £100,00 to extend a project, piloted between January and September 2014, for a further 9 months. The Living Safely and Well at Home project was piloted between January and September 2014, funded by Nationwide through its Citizenship at Nationwide programme, and intended to help deliver on its commitments under the […]

Welcome to the EAC FirstStop ‘Home from Hospital Tool’, an online resource designed to inform you of the support and assistance that may be available to you following a stay in hospital. Our tool is currently still being developed but we are keen to receive feedback on what works and what parts could be improved; […]