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Some thoughts on the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee’s report on the regulation of social housing
Posted: 14/09/2022
The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee (LUHC) has published its first report of session 2022-23, and it makes for interesting reading. Its 55 paragraph summary contains 24 recommendations covering four topics......>>
Prominent social housing specialist joins Penningtons Manches Cooper to lead dedicated corporate services team
Posted: 31/01/2022
Top 50 law firm Penningtons Manches Cooper has announced the appointment of Hugo Stephens as the head of its social housing corporate services team. Based in the firm’s Birmingham office, Hugo will assume overall responsibility for the consolidated specialist team, which works with housing providers on delivering their strategic objectives through their corporate structures......>>
The Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill
Posted: 14/10/2021
The Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill (the Bill) is, at the time of writing, at second reading stage in the House of Lords and progressing quickly towards becoming law later this year. The Bill, once enacted, will introduce important changes to the insolvency and director disqualification regime......>>
ESG – a continually evolving area
Posted: 13/10/2021
In November last year we considered the opportunities and challenges posed by environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters for registered providers of social housing (RPs). However, ESG is a continually evolving area and we consider some recent updates below......>>
A consultation on changes to the Accounting Direction
Posted: 13/10/2021
The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has undertaken a consultation on proposed tweaks to accounting requirements for registered providers of social housing (RPs). The RSH’s Accounting Direction sets out the minimum information that RPs must include in their financial reporting......>>
Case law update: community benefit societies – the effect of conversion from a company
Posted: 13/10/2021
The process of converting from a company (registered under company law and regulated by Companies House) to a community benefit society (registered under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (the Act) and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority) is a useful and clean way to adopt a new legal structure......>>
Duty to avoid conflicts of interest - where does it end?
Posted: 13/10/2021
A recent judgement in Burnell v Trans-Tag Ltd [2021] EWHC 1457 (Ch) looked at the scope of the duty to avoid conflicts of interest owed by former directors......>>
The Housing Ombudsman’s quarterly report and new guidance for governing bodies
Posted: 13/10/2021
In its latest quarterly report, the Housing Ombudsman reported that 23 complaints handling failure orders had been issued between April and June 2021. Whilst in 17 of these cases the landlords had since complied with the orders, there has been non-compliance with six orders (concerning five providers) and the Ombudsman confirmed it is investigating these providers further......>>
Preparing for Change – the Consumer Regulation Review 2020/21
Posted: 13/10/2021
It is perhaps unsurprising that the latest Consumer Regulation Review reiterates a number of key messages found in previous versions given that only one finding of a breach of the Consumer Standards and serious detriment in 2020-2021 has been published......>>
Equality, diversity and inclusion: culture may eat strategy for breakfast but you need both to succeed
Posted: 14/07/2021
Equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) continues to be at the forefront of discussions when assessing challenges faced by the housing sector and the need to do better. Since the summer of 2020, and the spotlight that the Black Lives Matter movement shone on this area, there has been a renewed focus on improving ED&I within the sector......>>

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