You will learn:

• What a ‘licence’ is and who should really have a tenancy
• Who should get what kind of agreement when first occupying
• The need for accurate and clear written and verbal agreements with occupiers
• About fixed-term/flexible and affordable rent tenancies
• About introductory/starter/assured shorthold/demoted tenancies; how and why reviews are essential
• How such tenancies default or convert into lifetime secure or assured tenancies
• The different rights and responsibilities that attach to different kinds of tenancy
• About common tenancy management issues – assignment, succession, abandonment
• How to properly end different kinds of tenancy or licence.

Everyone involved in creating, managing or ending different kinds of tenancy or licence, including lettings, sign-up staff, tenancy management and enforcement, arrears staff, supported housing teams and tenancy sustainment staff.

Mel Cant trained as a Barrister and came to the Bar in 2000. She doesn’t practice independently, choosing to work in the Social Housing Sector which she has done now for over 25 years.

She covers all aspects of social housing law from housing advice, homelessness, allocations, lettings, tenancy and leasehold management, antisocial behaviour, asset management and disrepair.

She undertakes homelessness reviews for nine local authorities and also undertakes training and consultancy providing practical solutions to legal issues within the sector.

Her favourite feedback ever is “Everyone needs a Mel on speed dial!”