by admin | 5 Apr, 2024 | News
On 3 April, DLUHC issued a press release announcing that the new regulatory regime for social housing had come into force on 1 April and included much of the same information as the Regulator’s letter reported in the previous item. However, the release...
by admin | 5 Apr, 2024 | News
The new regulatory regime for social housing went live on 1 April. To remind any landlord that might have forgotten, the Regulator of Social Housing wrote to local authority and housing association chief executives on 2 April to confirm that the four new...
by admin | 22 Mar, 2024 | News
Anyone searching the internet for ‘Housing Ombudsman’ to read the consultation on its business plan will notice that the Housing Ombudsman’s official website is not the top hit. The top two or three sites – some of which misleadingly include...
by admin | 22 Mar, 2024 | News
The Department for Education has launched a consultation on how to increase the recruitment and retention of childminders. Consultation with childminders has identified restrictions on how they can use their homes as one of the barriers they face, accordingly, the...
by admin | 22 Mar, 2024 | News
Local authority tenants and leaseholders who receive heat through heat networks or communal heating systems are not domestic customers of an energy company and therefore cannot benefit from help such as the Energy Price Guarantee Scheme. Instead, these customers...
by admin | 22 Mar, 2024 | News
On 12 March the Housing Ombudsman consulted on its business plan for 2024/25. 2023/24 has been another record year for complaints, with a 91% increase in the number of cases in the first 9 months, compared with the same period in 2022/23. Over the same period,...
