Loneliness

(asked on 10th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to A connected society: A Strategy for tackling loneliness – laying the foundations for change, published 15 October 2018, what progress has been made on his Department’s commitment to run a series of industry events, conferences and seminars to promote the role of design in wellbeing, including tackling loneliness and to publish case studies and evidence.


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Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 15th July 2019

Tackling loneliness was a large focus of a community vision event that my Department hosted with 40 Birmingham residents in February

The Department worked with residents to develop a vision for their homes and neighbourhoods. The Department wanted to use this vision to bring communities together to tackle people's experience of loneliness; which can have a massive impact on their wellbeing.

In February, the Government held the Better Design for Better Places national conference in Birmingham. Attendees explored how to use design to promote and support people's health and well-being through discussions, and the Government selected a case study on tackling loneliness to be presented.

In the keynote speech at the conference, Lord Bourne referenced the importance of creating places which can help to tackle loneliness.

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