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...

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 also...

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...

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 the words "Housing...

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...

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...