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Thursday 6 September 2018
FOI shows £1b spend on temp accom last year
Councils across England spent nearly £1bn on temporary accommodation last year alone. The annual bill rocketed 56% in the past five years, up from…
Tagged: Allocations Homelessness Housing Strategy
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Thursday 6 September 2018
Council closes ALMO – A1 Housing
Homes are being taken back into management by Bassetlaw District Council, in the Midlands, despite just one in five tenants and leaseholders voting in…
Tagged: LA Specific Issues Tenant Involvement
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Thursday 6 September 2018
Local Authority scrutiny – call for ideas – CfPS
The Government is preparing new statutory guidance on overview and scrutiny in local government. This will be published in December 2018. The guidance will…
Tagged: Goverance LA Specific Issues
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Monday 13 August 2018
Consultation open on Transparency Charter – closing date 5th Sept
This paper is a collaboration between the Centre for Public Scrutiny and the National Housing Federation, and asks how best to achieve our sector…
Tagged: Tenant Involvement
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Sunday 12 August 2018
New fund – closing date 24th Aug – tackling loneliness
NEW FUND Following the Prime Minister’s and Minister for Sport and Civil Society’s announcement to unlock £20m funding to tackle loneliness (as a part…
Tagged: Care and Support Older people
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Sunday 12 August 2018
Still waiting for the Green Paper on Housing
Meanwhile – we hear that Ministers have been exploring the idea of ‘league tables’ of housing associations as a key policy recommendation in the…
Tagged: Government Initiatives Regulation
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Sunday 12 August 2018
Building communities and supporting tenants into work
IPPR have released research today on the £70M a year spent supporting out-of-work tenants to rejoin the jobs market. It is more than half…
Tagged: Work
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Sunday 12 August 2018
Future funding of supported housing
The government has shared its plans for the future funding of supported housing. Supported housing, including refuges and all forms of short-term supported housing,…
Tagged: Care and Support Housing Strategy
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Saturday 4 August 2018
Well done L&Q and Salix for adopting the recommendations early from the Hackitt report
L&Q and Salix Homes, as well as builders Willmott Dixon and Kier, will work with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)…
Tagged: Health and Safety
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Saturday 4 August 2018
Regulatory downgrades for 3 landlords
The Regulator of Social Housing downgraded three housing associations , including managing risk and electrical safety. Equity Housing Group, 4,600 homes based in Greater…
