We'd like to remind our member councils of the benefits of ARCH
Exchange. The Exchange gives senior employees working in the stock
retained sector a simple way to pool their knowledge and
experience, and to reduce duplicated efforts.
Officers at ARCH member councils can use the ARCH Exchange to
ask for examples of how other councils have developed a policy or
tackled a particular situation, to circulate questionnaires, and to
share your committee or policy reports and much more. It's just
another benefit of ARCH membership.
We think the ARCH Exchange is currently underused and using it
to its full potential could save ARCH member councils considerable
time and effort in developing their housing policies and
procedures.
How ARCH Exchange works
Members can email their enquiry, questionnaire or the documents
they're willing to share to exchange@arch-housing.org.uk
. We'll then send out details to the main ARCH contact in each
organisation.
If you can assist with an ARCH Exchange enquiry, you can respond
directly to the member organisation. We provide contact details
with the enquiry and copying your response back to the
Exchange will enable us to maintain a library of responses for
future enquiries and to inform our policy work.
Sharing reports
If you have recently written a cabinet, committee or policy
report that you would be willing to share with other ARCH members
to help other councils who may be working on the same issue, you
can email it to the Exchange. We'll post it in the members' area of the ARCH
website and tell other members it's available.
ARCH members are encouraged to make use of the ARCH Exchange
facility. Sharing information in this way through the network of
nearly 70 stock retained councils could save time and effort in
developing new policies and approaches in your own council and help
promote learning and best practice across the stock retained
sector.
If you have any queries regarding the Exchange, please email: exchange@arch-housing.org.uk.