The Regulator of Social Housing has opened a consultation on their 'More and Better Social Homes' proposals. The call for evidence seeks views on how regulation should enable the delivery of more social housing while improving existing homes. You can respond directly using the Government's website.
This call for evidence is due to close on 30th September. The outcome of the consultation will be particularly relevant for supported housing providers, for reasons set out below.
Contribute to Chartered Institute for Housing (CIH) consultation response
You can also help shape the Chartered Institute for Housing's response to this consultation by answering six short questions, set out at the end of this article. This may be a good option if your team do not have time or capacity to respond to the consultation in full.
Relevance for supported housing providers
Many of the proposed regulatory changes could directly affect how supported housing providers demonstrate governance, financial sustainability, service quality and development capacity.
Describing how you operate complex models involving care, support and housing functions, is imperative to their understanding to help deliver more supported housing. Outlining issues such as organisational autonomy, financial resilience and relationships with third parties is particularly important. This call for evidence presents an opportunity for providers to influence how future regulation reflects the realities of delivering specialist and supported housing.
CIH have prepared a short summary of the key proposals within the More and Better Social Homes document which you can download and review before completing your response.
Contributing to the Charted Institute for Housing response
Please send an answer to the below questions to Megan Hinch (megan.hinch@cih.org) and Stephanie Morphew (stephanie.morphew@cih.org) by September 11th September.
- Is your organisation currently a registered provider for supported housing?
- If you are not registered, do you feel the proposals would positively or negatively impact your decision to become registered?
- Do you feel the proposals will positively or negatively impact upon your ability to deliver new and sustain existing supported housing?
- What do you feel is the Regulator’s core purpose with regard to social housing and supported housing?
- How do you feel the proposals work with other wider regulatory and legislative changes in the supported housing sector?
- Do you have any key positives or concerns you would like CIH to outline in our response to the call for evidence
You can also contact Megan or Stephanie using the details above if you have any further questions.
