Workshop four: The Safety and Quality Standard – whole day virtual workshop

How do you get assurance on stock condition? What are the safety risks beyond the Big Six? How will the safety metrics affect your C score?

This workshop will be split into two in-depth sessions over a morning and afternoon. The first will cover the safety aspects of the standard, followed by a session looking at quality.

What will be covered:

• Latest updates on regulation and inspection
• Overview of governance and assurance arrangements
• What evidence the regulator will expect to see
• Stock quality – individual property level
• Decency – Decent Homes Standard compliance
• Awaab’s Law
• Health and safety compliance
• Repairs, maintenance and planned improvements – an effective repairs service
• Adaptations
• Looking at both the required outcomes and the specific expectations
• Supporting Codes of Practice.

Essential for:

• CEOs and senior executives
• Performance and data managers and teams
• Housing policy and strategy teams
• Governance managers and teams
• Corporate support teams
• Asset management directors and teams
• Repairs directors and teams
• Health and safety leads and teams.

Interested in the other workshops in this series? Use the links below to book.

Workshop three part one, Transparency, Influence and Accountability Standard – 17 September 2024
Workshop three part two, Transparency, Influence and Accountability Standard – 18 September 2024
Workshop four, Safety and Quality Standard – London – 24 September 2024

Workshop one, Neighbourhood and Community Standard – 5 November 2024

Wayne Hughes, HQN Associate

Wayne Hughes is an experienced consultant who has worked at a senior level within private and public sector housing related organisations for the past 40 years. He has authored several articles on asset management related activities and has sat on several advisory bodies for the social housing sector, including sitting on the panel which developed the widely used Disrepair Pre-action Protocol. He was also part of the team which established the English House Condition Survey (now called the English Housing Survey).

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