The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 received
Royal Assent on 22nd July 2008 and is set to radically overhaul the
regulation of social housing.
The newly established Tenant Services Authority will be responsible for the
supervision of not only RSLs’ but also local authorities’ housing provision,
bringing 4 million households within its remit.
The TSA will set high standards of management across housing association and
local authority housing, listening to tenants' concerns and using its powers
to make sure tenants are getting a good service from their social landlords,
whilst encouraging landlords to keep innovating and improving those
services.
But what precisely will the TSA’s powers be? What will it expect of
providers and how should providers prepare for the new regime? How will
their operations be affected? And what of their independence?
The Act also makes many other important changes to the law concerning social
housing. These include possession claims and attempts to overcome the
notorious difficulties in respect of ‘tolerated trespassers’. The new rules
will be explained in depth.
Lime Legal has assembled a speaker team of unparalleled expertise on this
new legislation to explore the issues that will be of concern to all social
housing providers. The speakers will explain the background to, and aims of,
the legislation, set out the timetable and proposed working methods of the
TSA, consider how it will impact on providers’ policies and working
arrangements, and detail what providers should be doing now in order to
ensure that their own organisations comply with the new standards.
Plenty of time has been set aside for you to raise your questions with the
experts and to share the experiences and observations of your colleagues.
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Take advantage of this unique opportunity to ask the experts questions
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London
Friday 17th October 2008
Holiday Inn, Regent’s Park
Carburton Street
London
W1W 5EE
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Fee
£295 + VAT for top quality training from some of the country’s leading
experts.
SPECIAL THIRD AND SUBSEQUENT DELEGATE HALF PRICE OFFER
(see booking form for details)
CPD: 5
hours 30 minutes
Who should
attend?
An unmissable event for all Local Authority
and RSL personnel including:
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Directors of Housing
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Housing Managers and Officers within RSLs and
Local Authorities
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Housing Policy Staff
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Tenancy Services Teams
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Heads of Housing Management
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RSL and Local Authority Lawyers
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09.15-10.00
Registration and refreshments
10.00-10.15
Chairman’s Introduction
Jan Luba QC
10.15-11.00
Regulation and Management of Social Housing: What’s in the New Act?
Communities & Local Government Speaker
11.00-11.15
Refreshments
11.15-12.00
The Role of the Tenant Services Authority
Peter Ruback
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Background to the Cave Review
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Why
regulation of social housing is so important and how it can be done better
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Housing and Regeneration Act: legislating for the new approach – new
objectives and new levers
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A
vision for the new system
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Implementation: timetable and approach
12.00-12.50
How will RSLs be Affected?
Helen Williams
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What does the Act mean for the future regulation of social housing?
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How
will the Tenant Services Authority protect and promote the interests of
tenants?
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How
should housing associations gear up for the advent of regulation?
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Which are the challenging areas?
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What does all this mean for how housing associations deliver services to
tenants?
12.50-13.00
Questions of the Panel
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-14.50
The New Challenge Facing Local Authorities
Janet Hussain
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What are the key challenges for Local Authorities?
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The
likely effects on Local Authorities
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Preparing for change; preparing for the future
14.50-15.40
Possession changes
Robert Latham
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Curing the ‘tolerated trespassers’ conundrum
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Secure and assured tenancies – the changes
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New
tenancies to tolerated trespassers
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Terms and conditions of the new tenancy
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Stock transfers
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Consequential changes
15.40-16.00
Refreshments
16.00-16.40
What do Housing Providers Need to be Doing Now?
Jan Luba QC
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New
Family Intervention Tenancies
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The
new Eligibility Rules
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Changes to Local Connection
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Changes to the Right to Buy
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Other important changes
16.40-17.05
Discussion Forum
17.05
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Jan Luba QC, Garden Court Chambers,
London. Jan is one of the country’s leading experts on social housing law
and practice. He has been described as “a walking encyclopaedia of housing
law”
Robert Latham, barrister, senior member of the Housing and Welfare
Team at Doughty Street Chambers, London. Robert is named as “a forceful and
imaginative advocate” in Chambers UK directory of the legal profession and
has years of experience of housing cases.
Peter Ruback has been seconded to the Tenant Services Authority as
part of the set up team. Formerly he was Head of Affordable Housing in the
Department for Communities and Local Government. He leads the Government’s
affordable housing programmes.
Helen Williams is Assistant Director of Neighbourhoods at the
National Housing Federation. Before joining the NHF, Helen managed the
policy team of a large housing association and held housing management roles
in associations and local government. She has also spent a year in central
government.
Janet Hussain is Strategic Commissioning Manager at Newcastle City
Council with key responsibility for managing Newcastle’s ALMO. Janet has
worked in local government for 20 years and is a member of the advisory
panel reviewing the implications for local authorities of the Housing and
Regeneration Act. |
