Social Housing White paper Archives

Competition opens to deliver new training and support programme for social housing residents

|Date: 16 August, 2022

Competition opens to deliver new training and support programme for social housing residents

A £500,000 government grant to provide training, boost confidence and offer toolkits for residents on a r ...

A £500,000 government grant to provide training, boost confidence and offer toolkits for residents on a range of social housing issues has opened for bids. The Resident Opportunities and Empowerment p ...

16 August, 2022
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Industry Comment | Decent Homes Standard review

|Date: 10 June, 2022

Industry Comment | Decent Homes Standard review

Government is reviewing the Decent Homes Standard (in two parts) to identify the case for change and cons ...

Government is reviewing the Decent Homes Standard (in two parts) to identify the case for change and consider how decency should be defined. Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Ret ...

10 June, 2022
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Industry Comment | Less fatalism, more empathy

|Date: 13 April, 2022

Industry Comment | Less fatalism, more empathy

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), discusses the ch ...

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), discusses the challenging environment social landlords face and says only through open, honest and full dialogu ...

13 April, 2022
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Government to introduce new national residents’ panel and empower Regulator to name and shame underperforming RPs

|Date: 30 March, 2022

Government to introduce new national residents’ panel and empower Regulator to name and shame underperforming RPs

The Government has published a package of new measures to improve social housing quality, almost five yea ...

The Government has published a package of new measures to improve social housing quality, almost five years after the devasting Grenfell Tower fire. These measures build on the Social Housing White Pa ...

30 March, 2022
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Social Housing Regulation Bill: last chance for Registered Providers to prepare!

|Date: 24 February, 2022

Social Housing Regulation Bill: last chance for Registered Providers to prepare!

Social Housing Regulation Bill: last chance for Registered Providers to prepare says Matt Cowen, an Assoc ...

Social Housing Regulation Bill: last chance for Registered Providers to prepare says Matt Cowen, an Associate in the Social Housing Regulation team at Winckworth Sherwood. Almost five years after the ...

24 February, 2022
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LiveWest appoints new Head of Neighbourhoods

|Date: 24 January, 2022

LiveWest appoints new Head of Neighbourhoods

Alice Smith has been appointed as the new Head of Neighbourhoods for housing association LiveWest. The 38 ...

Alice Smith has been appointed as the new Head of Neighbourhoods for housing association LiveWest. The 38,000-home landlord has recruited Alice to play a key role in delivering its vision, business ob ...

24 January, 2022
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Housing Safety and Wellbeing Taskforce launched

|Date: 18 January, 2022

Housing Safety and Wellbeing Taskforce launched

The Housing Safety and Wellbeing Taskforce launched online on the 13th January 2022. Sir Peter Bottomley ...

The Housing Safety and Wellbeing Taskforce launched online on the 13th January 2022. Sir Peter Bottomley MP introduced the initiative and paid tribute to the late Sir David Amess MP, who had lent valu ...

18 January, 2022
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Independent Scrutiny Board reports back on Mears performance

|Date: 5 May, 2021

Independent Scrutiny Board reports back on Mears performance

An independently chaired panel of customer representatives has published its first annual report on the p ...

An independently chaired panel of customer representatives has published its first annual report on the performance of housing provider Mears. The Scrutiny Board was set up in 2020 to work alongside t ...

5 May, 2021
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FireAngel | Debating the future of fire safety for 2021 and beyond

|Date: 7 January, 2021

FireAngel | Debating the future of fire safety for 2021 and beyond

While 2020 presented the social housing industry with some of its toughest challenges to date, particular ...

While 2020 presented the social housing industry with some of its toughest challenges to date, particularly in relation to COVID-19, it also offered significant opportunities for evaluation and improv ...

7 January, 2021
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Housing Proactive solution enables more effective two-way engagement

|Date: 26 November, 2020

Housing Proactive solution enables more effective two-way engagement

Daily contact from Alertacall’s Housing Proactive technology is increasing resident satisfaction, helping ...

Daily contact from Alertacall’s Housing Proactive technology is increasing resident satisfaction, helping to raise standards for landlords as well as supporting the recommendations of the Social Housi ...

26 November, 2020
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