by admin | 19 Apr, 2024 | News
ARCH has responded to the DLUHC consultation proposing a new Competence and Conduct Standard, which closed on 5 April. The Standard would require councils to have a Code of Conduct for housing management staff and require all senior housing managers to be...
by admin | 19 Apr, 2024 | News
ARCH has responded to the DLUHC consultation on reform of social housing allocations policy, which closed on 26 March. It argues that the proposed reforms are unnecessary, will have little impact on who is housed in council housing, and are no substitute for...
by admin | 19 Apr, 2024 | News
DWP has published a detailed guide to the arrangements for the migration of customers receiving legacy benefits to Universal Credit, which will affect most recipients of legacy benefits this year. They will each receive a Migration Notice informing them that...
by admin | 5 Apr, 2024 | News
Housing Ombudsman consults on Good Practice guidance On 26 March the Housing Ombudsman published a consultation paper on its future approach to publication of Good Practice Guidance. The consultation paper proposes some principles that will guide the...
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...
