ARCH member, Sheffield City Council has been selected to
participate in a new Social Sector (Building Safety) Engagement
Best Practice Group, established by MHCLG to take forward the
recommendations in the Hackitt Report and the Social Housing Green
Paper.
The new group will bring 8 social landlords and their respective
residents together to ensure residents are given a stronger voice
in communicating approaches to building safety within social
housing.
The full membership of the
Social Sector (Building Safety) Engagement Best Practice Group
is as follows:
- Victoria Elvidge (Chair)
- Chelmer Housing Partnership
- Clarion Housing Group
- Optivo
- Phoenix Community Housing
- Poole Housing Partnership
- Sheffield City Council
- Stockport Homes Group
- Your Homes Newcastle
- Tim Birchall, fire safety technical officer for Bedfordshire
Fire and Rescue Service
- Paul Everall, Chief Executive of the Local Authority Building
Control
A resident from each organisation will also be a member of the
Group.
The Chair of the Group (Victoria Elvidge) is a board member of
LEASE - the Leasehold Advisory Service. The group will meet monthly
for the next 6 months as a pilot. A decision on its future will
then be taken accordingly.
The principal aims of the Best Practice Group will be to:
- build on existing social sector expertise in working closely
with residents
- develop best practice in the fields of engagement and
communication with residents
- inform future policy development
- consider how approaches to resident engagement with regards to
fire and building safety could be applied to other tenures
Click here for the full Terms of
Reference for the Social Sector (Building Safety) Engagement Best
Practice Group.