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Consumer Regulation: Insights on achieving a C1 grading
Wednesday 11th December 2024 | 12pm-1pm | Zoom
Eight months on from the implementation of the new consumer regulation regime, our experts are joined by Jenny Spoor, Director of Operations at Havebury Housing Partnership to discuss Havebury’s journey through the new consumer regulation framework. Jenny will share her experience from meeting the four new consumer standards and securing a C1 regulatory grading.
OnDemand webinars
In our on-demand webinars, we discuss the latest topics and trends facing the social housing sector. The recordings feature a range of guest speakers including the Regulator of Social Housing, Chief Executive of Leeds and Yorkshire Housing Association, and the Group Chief Executive of Progress Housing.
Gas Safety: Standards, Compliance, and Assurance
Discover the importance of annual gas safety checks and obtaining a Landlord’s Gas Safety Certificate under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998. With increased scrutiny from the Regulator of Social Housing in recent years, following an influx in gas safety breaches and failures to meet regulations, this webinar will help you prioritise and update your gas safety approach.
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Asbestos Awareness: Key requirements and best practices
Discover expert insight on the fundamentals of your asbestos management responsibilities under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. This will include a recap of your key obligations, highlighting the importance of asbestos management inspections and what to expect from survey reports. Watch now for practical guidance and best practices to identify and manage asbestos without putting yourself and others at risk.
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Building Safety Act 2022: Insights from Building Safety Regulator
Our experts are joined by Andrew Saunders, the Operational Policy Advisor at the Building Safety Regulator, to recap the requirements of Part 4 of the Building Safety Act 2022, including lessons learnt from helping organisations with their building assessment certificate applications and key focus areas to ensure compliance with the latest updates.
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Stock Condition: Meeting the Safety and Quality Standard
Hear our experts explain and discuss your stock condition responsibilities under the new Safety and Quality Standard, Decent Homes, and Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS). This webinar will guide you through your stock condition journey, ensuring you can maintain a robust understanding of the condition of your assets and the necessary steps to ensure compliance with the latest legislation.
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Preparing for Change: HHSRS, Damp, Mould, and Condensation
Find out how you should be preparing today for the upcoming changes to Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS), Decent Homes, and the impending enhanced requirements of Awaab’s Law. Our skilled experts will discuss what the changes mean for you, as well as providing insight on managing damp and mould and other common HHSRS hazards.
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New Consumer Regulation Regime: Insights and Updates
Our panel of experts will be joined by the Assistant Director of Regulatory Engagement at Regulator of Social Housing in this exclusive webinar to discuss how the sector has adapted to the consumer regulation changes, including insight on the new set of consumer standards, and submitting Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSM) data returns by 30th June.
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Fire Safety: Building Height, Compartmentation, and FRAEWs
Join our experts in discussion on the complete journey organisations must take to achieve fire safety compliance. This webinar will guide you through the governance behind a successful fire safety approach; assessing your building’s height, compartmentation, and fire doors; and appointing a competent installation contractor.
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Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) 101
Discover the basics of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) that you must understand to stay complaint. This webinar will help you understand the importance of assessing assets against the 29 HHSRS hazards. Our panel of experts will help you navigate the requirements of the HHSRS with lessons learnt from working with organisations to ensure their HHSRS compliance.
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Building Safety Act 2022: Latest legislative updates
Our experts will discuss the requirements of the Building Safety Act 2022, building assessment certificate applications, and additional requirements which came into force from April 2024. Discover how to remain compliant with the new regime and prepare yourself for updates to come later this year. This is your chance to update your building safety approach and ensure compliance with expert insight.
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Fire Safety Legislation: Latest legal obligations and best practice
Hear our panel of skilled experts discuss recent changes to fire safety legislation and key lessons learnt and best practices developed over the past year. This will include the recent implementation of Section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022, Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, and how to ensure your compartmentation is sufficient.
Watch now to discover best practices developed from working with organisations over the past year and find out how you can adapt your approach to remain safe and compliant.
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Consumer Regulation: Are you ready to meet the revised standards?
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Housing quality 2.0
Hear our panel of experts discuss the latest on how to optimise your housing quality approach, covering asset management, damp and mould, and carbon reduction. Find out how to gather information on the quality of your homes, tenant satisfaction levels, and your approach to repairs and maintenance.
Watch now to discover how to update your housing quality approach while keeping your buildings compliant and your tenants safe.
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Building Safety: Safety Cases and New Legislation
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Property Compliance: Don’t Forget the Basics
Hear our panel of experts recap on all the basics of property compliance with industry insight from the experts; who will share key recent and recurrent issues and best practices seen from compliance health checks, data validation, and working with different organisations within the sector.
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Asbestos Management: Things You Might Not Know
Hear our panel of experts explain and discuss everything you need to know about asbestos management, provide a useful reminder of your legal obligations, and what you should be doing when dealing with asbestos. As well as in-depth insight into the most common issues our team are finding in the sector and the approaches we have developed to effectively address them.
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Damp and Mould: Lessons learnt and best practices
Hear our panel of experts dive deep into what other organisations are currently doing to address their damp, mould, and condensation issues, whilst detailing the key lessons we’ve learnt and best practices we’ve established having worked with several organisations in this area.
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Policy to Practice:Talking Consumer Regulation with the Regulator of Social Housing
Hear special guest Angela Holden, Assistant Director of Consumer Regulation at the Regulator of Social Housing, join our panel of experts to talk all things consumer regulation – this will include the legislation and regulatory framework which is bringing about one of the most ‘fundamental changes to social housing regulation for over a decade’.
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Building Safety Cases: Lessons Learnt So Far
Hear our brilliant consultancy team, accompanied by our expert fire technicians, share their experiences and highlight the most effective ways to tackle your own safety cases based on the lessons we’ve learnt so far.
This is your chance to explore how best to navigate your safety case journey, from developing the safety case itself to staying on top of the technical information that must be included.
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External Wall Systems: Ensuring Safety and Managing Risks
Hear from a stellar lineup of fire safety experts who will share their extensive EWS knowledge with reference to the Building Safety Act 2022 and Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, helping you learn everything you need to know about the design, risks, and management of external wall systems.
What are the critical safety considerations for EWS? How should you implement them? And how should you address and manage the risks? Watch on-demand now to gain a clear understanding of why you must know what is on your building.
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Housing Quality: Expectations and Challenges
This webinar explores these challenges in detail, so that you can walk away with a clear understanding of what your requirements are and how you can address them. Understand what’s coming up that will impact on your service delivery, and what you need to plan for to ensure that your services are still legal, still up to date, and still provide the level of quality that is expected.
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Building Safety: Implementing the Golden Thread of Information
What is the golden thread? What does it mean in practice? And how can you plan and implement it? Walk away from this webinar with a clear understanding of the above, so that your buildings are always compliant, and your residents are always safe.
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Preparing for Tenant Satisfaction Measures and Regulatory Changes
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Building Safety : Are you ready for April 1st?
This webinar will highlight what you need to be thinking about now to have assurance that you are ready and well-prepared, whilst closing any gaps you may have. You will hear from an organisation who have spent time preparing and how they approached their duties, alongside what they have learnt, and what their key challenges and significant issues have been.
Managers will be provided with an understanding of what you need to provide to your Executive Team and Board, and Executives or Board Members will understand what they should expect to receive from those with operational responsibilities.
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Damp and Mould: Priorities for action
Following the government's recent direction to housing providers, Graham Whittingham, guest speaker and mould specialist, joined our panel of experts to discuss how you should be meeting the relevant standards for dealing with damp, mould, and condensation risks in this free, live webinar.
We provided practical advice covering the action you can take to treat mould and damp issues, so that all properties are as safe as possible for residents to live in.
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Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 - What you need to know
There will be new responsibilities for landlords and building owners come January 2023, meaning now is officially the time to be getting yourself prepared and ready for these important changes.
You will take away…- An overview of the regulations and what it means for your organisation.
- What you need to be doing to ensure compliance with the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022.
- Knowledge of the best practice and lessons learned from across the sector.
This webinar will cover what you need to be doing to ensure compliance covering Building Plans, External Wall Systems, Lifts and Other Key Fire-Fighting Equipment, Information Boxes, Wayfinding Signage, Fire Doors and Fire Safety Instructions. We will talk all about what others in the sector are doing to prepare, whilst sharing best practice and lessons learned to help organisations take action and ultimately exceed their safety obligations.
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Social Housing White Paper and Tenant Satisfaction Measures for Building Safety
The webinar will cover…
- The technical requirements and standards set by the Regulator of Social Housing
- The process for collecting and submitting data
- What providers need to be doing now to be fully prepared for April 2023
Following the recent publication of the new tenant satisfaction measures by the Regulator of Social Housing join us to find out what this means, and most importantly what you need to do to prepare. We will be looking at the technical requirements and standards set by the RSH but also at the process for collecting and submitting data, and what providers need to be doing now to be fully prepared for April 2023.
Speakers
Sarah Davies, Professional Services Director, Siobhan McCoy, Head of Consultancy
Guest Speaker
Angela Holden, Regulator of Social
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Managing and using data
How are you managing your data?
Hear from our team of industry experts on how your organisation can achieve excellence in managing and using data to help keep people safe.
The importance of quality data-driven performance monitoring has been highlighted again by The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) in there, ‘Value for money metrics and reporting 2021’. Organisations with good quality records and data are better able to manage risk to help ensure tenant safety.
What you will learn:
- why data is so important
- how to use data effectively to manage your services operationally and drive strategic decision making
- how to use data as business intelligence to deliver excellence
- examples of how organisations are using data to achieve positive customer safety and value for money outcomes.
Hosted by:
Sarah Davies, Professional Services Director, Pennington Choices
Siobhan McCoy, Head of Consultancy, Pennington Choices
Tom Wilkinson, Consultant, Pennington Choices
Nicola Brown, Sales Director at Feedback Ferret has over twenty five years commercial experience in providing IT solutions to the social housing sector.
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Building Safety Cases and The 'Golden Thread'
Are you prepared for the Building Safety Act?
We took a deep dive into Building Safety and got the latest updates and developments surrounding the new regime, Building Safety cases and the ‘Golden Thread of information’ at that time. Note that our March 2023 webinar is a more recent reference for the information you need to know surrounding the golden thread.
Take a deep dive into Building Safety and get the latest updates surrounding the new regime.
• How has the draft Building Safety Bill changed since it was published on the 5th July 2021?
• What Building Safety Cases and reports are, and their importance to the accountable person
• The principles of the 'Golden Thread' of Information
• Examining the potential cost impact to organisations
• Ask the experts – Q&A
Hosted by:
Siobhan McCoy, Head of Consultancy, Pennington Choices
Paul Leadbitter, Senior Consultant, Pennington Choices
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The 'Health' in Health and Safety
Understand how you can best manage your health-related issues within the workplace.
Health and Safety Consultant, Anne Gardner-Aston, discusses managing the 'Health' in Health and Safety, alongside Senior Associate at Evershed Sutherlands, Surekha Gollapudi, who shares her knowledge of managing health-related compliance within the housing sector.
This mini masterclass will provide you with information on how you can best manage your health-related issues within the workplace. In the second part of the masterclass, we welcome Surekha Gollapudi, Senior Associate at Evershed Sutherland to discuss what might happen if you get it wrong, and how to make sure you have the right evidence in place to demonstrate compliance.
Hosted by:
Anne Gardner-Aston, Health and Safety Consultant
Senior Associate, Surekha Gollapudi, Evershed Sutherlands
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Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
Hear from industry experts for an update on the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act and disrepair, alongside trained barrister, Melanie Cant LLB (Hons) CIHM, from January 2021.
This mini masterclass will provide you with key insight and knowledge about the main routes for tenants to make claims in relation to the condition of their properties. It will also include discussing the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act as well as disrepair, so that you can use this to understand whether there are areas you can strengthen to minimise the risk of expensive and time-consuming claims.
You will also hear from a trained barrister, Melanie Cant LLB (Hons) CIHM, as well as the chance to interact with your colleagues from across the housing sector to hear from themselves and their experiences.
Hosted by:
Siobhan McCoy, Head of Consultancy, Pennington Choices
Melanie Cant LLB (Hons) CIHM, Trained Barrister