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Ensuring a Robust and Well-Regulated Housing Sector

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Dec 2022

Costs are rising faster than the rate of inflation with construction costs rising by 9.6% in June 2022 alone. In this video, Will Perry, Director of Strategy at the Regulator for Social Housing discusses of impact of inflation on the housing market and the context of investment on their housing stock.

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Improving Anti-Social Behaviour Strategies with Staff Training and Community Safety Notices

21 minute watch

Sep 2022

The police recorded 1.3 million incidents of anti-social behaviour in the year ending March 2022. In this video, Liz Smith, Head of Anti-Social Behaviour at Stockport Homes shares how training staff and using community safety notices has helped reduce costs and improved the handling of anti-social behaviour cases in their housing association.

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Delivering Estate Maintenance Improvements to Uphold Long-Term Building Safety Standards

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Aug 2022

In April 2022, the Building Safety Act became law, transforming existing regulations to ensure residential buildings are constructed and maintained safely. In this video Brent O’Halloran, Building Safety Advisor at Clarion Housing shares some of the impacts of the act on the housing sector and the importance of trust between tenants and landlords to deliver effective building safety strategies

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Tailoring Engagement Strategies to Involve a Range of Tenants

1 minute read

Aug 2022

In 2020, the Government launched the Charter for Social Housing Residents White Paper. This sets out new expectations for housing associations and local authorities to improve tenant engagement and accountability in the social housing system. In this video, Emma Warwick, Head of Service Neighbourhoods & Housing and Steve Shirra, Business Insight & Quality at Hull City Council share how their council has used the pyramid of engagement model to improve tenant engagement in their social housing stock.

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Government Updates

The Charter for Social Housing Residents: Social Housing Whitepaper

21 minute read

Aug 2022

The Charter for Social Housing Residents outlines better protection for social housing residents. The new charter sets out what every tenant should be able to expect from social housing, making sure they are safe, listened to and live in good quality homes.

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Articles

Taking steps towards Ending Veteran Rough Sleeping

5 minute read

Jul 2022

Between 3-6% of homeless people in the UK come from an armed forces background. Lee Buss-Blair, Director of Operations-Care and Support Functions at Riverside homes, he shares with us some of the steps needed to end veteran rough sleeping.

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Case Studies

Identifying and Working to Support Victims of Cuckooing

6 minute read

Jul 2022

Using a Community Safer Grant, Stockport Homes were commissioned to undertake a 16 month pilot project to address the issue of cuckooing in the borough. Liz Smith, Head of Anti-Social Behaviour shares with us how they have supported vulnerable tenants who are victims of cuckooing.

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Articles

Fire Safety Law – A 2022 Update

9 minute read

Jul 2022

In April 2021, the Fire Safety Act became law and transformed the regulatory environment of the build environment and fire safety sectors. Dr Nick Williams, Course Leader on the Building Control Surveyor Apprentice Degree and Senior Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton shares the recent updates to fire safety law in the UK and what these updates mean for building management.

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Overcoming Challenges to Design Affordable and Sustainable Social Housing

21 minute watch

Jul 2022

The Government’s Future Homes and Building Regulations Standard requires all houses built from 2025 to produce 75-80% less carbon emissions than homes delivered under current regulations. We heard from Karen Lythe, Assistant Director of Strategic Housing, and Matthew Clarkson, Design and Construction Services Manager at Doncaster Council about overcoming challenges to deliver the council’s House Build Programme in line with the Future Homes Standard.

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Generating Community Support for Sustainable Housing Projects

20 minute watch

Jul 2022

The UK Government has set the target of achieving net zero by 2050 and the social housing sector will play a key role in meeting this goal. We heard from James Caspell, Neighbourhood Director (Lancaster West and Grenfell Housing Services), at Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, about improving engagement with the local community to gain their support for sustainable housing projects.

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Developing a Green Infrastructure Framework to Improve Resident Access to Nature

18 minute watch

Jul 2022

In November 2020, the Government published the Charter for Social Housing Residents, establishing new standards for social housing providers to deliver safe homes and improve the quality of existing neighbourhoods. In this video, Dr Phil Askew, Director of Landscaping and Placemaking at Peabody, shares how regenerating spaces at Thamesmead through the Living in the Landscape scheme is helping improve resident access to green spaces.

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Contributors

Louisa Steele, Housing First and Homelessness Manager, Standing Together

1 minute read

Jul 2022

We’re delighted to welcome Louisa Steele, Housing First and Homelessness Manager, Standing Together, as a new content contributor to MyGovCentral. Louisa has worked across women’s specialist services and the homelessness sector in England for the past twelve years, in both frontline and strategic roles.

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