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LAs advised to act early with council tax debts
Local authorities must intervene now to help residents take early action to deal with council tax debts and only use bailiffs to recover monies…
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Big Society Update May 2013
Office for Civil Society, Local Intelligence Team (LIT) North West Update May 2013 More information below on – Social Impact Bond Roundtable – 10…
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HCA shake internal shake up on regulation of housing
The social housing regulator is to appoint seven new senior members of staff and overhaul its structure in a bid to boost its effectiveness.…
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Data security
Housing associations are braced for reform. Legislation, from housing benefit direct to tenants to the bedroom tax, is being driven through but scant consideration has…
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Digital inclusion tips
Levels of digital exclusion are at a tipping point. According to the National Housing Federation, up to 90% of jobs now require some computer use, while offline…
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Call for better scrutiny of Police Commissioners
Police and crime commissioners (PCCs) must come under greater local scrutiny to restrict unconventional decision-making, MPs have concluded. Following the publication of the first PCC…
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Is work supporting homeless people?
The Work and Pensions Committee has published two reports from an inquiry which asked, ‘Can the Work Programme work for all user groups?’ Several housing organisations…
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Its never too late for a big lunch party on 2nd June
This year The Big Lunch takes place on Sunday 2 June and with less than a month to go, things are getting busy! It’s…
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Government suggest sofa beds to beat bedroom tax!!
The minister for welfare reform has said he is concerned about the impact the bedroom tax could have on separated families, but sofa beds…
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Unemployed people to become energy efficiency advisers
A community investment company in Birmingham is helping unemployed people to become assessors for the government’s green deal home energy efficiency scheme. Catalyst Mutual…
