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Whole Place Community Budgets
A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report into integration across government and Whole-Place Community Budgets today criticised low levels of co-ordination across central departments and called for…
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Can social housing learn from the private sector?
Mark Henderson, chief executive of the 55,000-home landlord, told the National Housing Federation conference in Birmingham that housing associations should develop their businesses along…
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Should Housing Portfolio move to the Dept of Health?
The role of housing minister should sit within the Department of Health, former health minister Paul Burstow told delegates at the National Housing Federation conference on…
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DWP mulls over changes to bedroom tax after successful challenges
The Department for Work and Pensions is considering issuing fresh guidance to councils and tribunals following four successful appeals against the bedroom tax. It…
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Nottingham landlords sign policy to support tenants through underoccupation
Asra Housing Group, Nottingham Council, Nottingham City Homes and Nottingham Community Housing Association have signed up to the policy in order to control rising…
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Report urges government to assist older people to downsize
People over the age of 60 who are interested in downsizing are ‘sitting on £400bn of housing wealth’ which could be unlocked through greater…
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Coroner recommends NHS pass on information about vulnerable tenants
A coroner has recommended a London hospital trust passes information about vulnerable patients to social landlords after a mentally-ill social tenant committed suicide because…
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Proposal – Money for landlords to advise tenants on Universal Credit
Social landlords must be funded to provide advice to tenants if universal credit is going to succeed, the co-chair of the work and pensions…
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Report critical of regulator and regulation of social housing
The communities and local government committee last week published a report which criticised several aspects of the Homes and Communities Agency’s regulation of the sector. The…
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Bedroom tax vote at Liberal democrat conference
The Liberal Democrats will ‘vigorously evaluate’ the impact of the bedroom tax, after a motion slamming it passed by a landslide at conference yesterday.…
