We can provide assistance, support and advice on the burning issues of the moment. These include:

• How to respond to major social and welfare benefit changes?  Whether to step up the provision of in-house advice on benefit changes for residents or to oursource to other agencies?  Help with understanding the likely impact of benefit changes on rental income. Whether to actively engage in employment and training initiatives to help residents lift themselves out of dependence on benefits?
• For Registered Providers - whether to continue developing new homes?  Developing a strategic and operational response to the affordable rent model. Developing fair, justifiable policies on fixed term tenancies.
• For local authorities - support with deciding how to respond to changes to the housing revenue account and the 'freedoms and flexibilities' provided by the new 'localism' agenda - this includes strategic changes to policies on waiting lists, allocations and homelessness.  Advice on dealing with major Town and Country planning reforms.
• For ALMOs - advice on how to 'stretch' capital grant for Decent Homes and support on developing a new enhanced future role beyond Decent Homes.
• For all social housing organisations, assistance with changes to regulation.  Making co-regulation and tenant scrutiny work, and dealing with the added political dimension to complaints.
• For all organisations - support in how to get more for less.  How to create and run successful shared services.  How to develop althernative revenue streams.  How to reshape businesses.
• For all organisations - assistance in supporting employees - mentoring and coaching for 'survivors', suport for those leaving your organisation, eg help on setting up their own business.
  

Meet the team