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Thursday 12 April 2018
Gender Pay Gap
Major housing associations are revealed to have gender pay gaps of more than 25%, as the government deadline for reporting the figures passed. you…
Tagged: Equality
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Thursday 29 March 2018
Fire doors – not as resistant as they should be at Grenfell
The British Woodworking Federation (BWF) said it had lobbied government for years about toughening up the checks on fire doors. Following an announcement earlier…
Tagged: Health and Safety
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Thursday 29 March 2018
Government admits failure in RTB one for one replacement
The government said 15,981 homes had been acquired or started as replacements for those sold under the Right to Buy since 2012. This contrasts…
Tagged: Right to Buy
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Thursday 29 March 2018
Increase in those homeless in temporary accommodation
There were 78,930 households living in temporary accommodation between October and December 2017. Out of these households 60,520 had children. There were 16% of…
Tagged: Homelessness
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Thursday 29 March 2018
Failures in the lead up to the Grenfell Fire
As the minister announces to parliament about the delays in re-homing survivors of Grenfell, a paper trail of the failures in the system of building…
Tagged: Health and Safety
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Thursday 29 March 2018
New Homelessness minister calls for sprinklers in high rise
Heather Wheeler, ministerial homelessness lead has urged the government during a debate to make the fitting of sprinklers mandatory in all new developments. Building regulations…
Tagged: Health and Safety
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Saturday 3 March 2018
Local Public Account Committees
As a proud supporting advisory group member, here is some information on the latest project from CfPS, who welcome your responses. CfPS’s view is…
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Saturday 3 March 2018
Regulators latest judgements
20,000 home Radian was downgraded to ‘G2’ for governance in a clutch of judgements released today by the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) (see…
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Tuesday 20 February 2018
Regulatory downgrades – Home Standard
Both Vivid and Raven Housing Trust breached the Home Standard, but both associations have kept their top governance. In 2015 Raven Housing Trust found…
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Tuesday 20 February 2018
NHF discusses Homelessness with Government
The National Housing Federation (NHF) have been invited to discuss housing associations’ role in implementing new homelessness legislation. The Homeless Reduction Act will come…
