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Mandatory five-year electrical safety checks now apply to social landlords. This timely workshop gives you the latest legal position, good-practice advice and a practical checklist so you can evidence compliance to the Regulator of Social Housing.

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    Do you know what proportion of your homes have had an electrical check in the past five years?

    That’s the question you need to be ready for. It’s core to evidencing compliance with the Safety and Quality Standard now in force, and it’s a focus in consumer regulation engagement. Registered providers must identify and meet all legal health and safety requirements and complete resulting actions within appropriate timescales.

    From November 2025, mandatory electrical safety checks were extended to the social rented sector for tenancies granted after 1 December 2025, bringing parity with the private rented sector. For social housing tenancies granted before 1 December 2025, the same regulations come into force on 1 May 2026.

    Landlords must ensure the electrical safety standards are met and have installations inspected and tested at least every five years by a qualified person (with appropriate follow-up on any remedial actions). Guidance has been updated to reflect this change.

    This masterclass sets out what good looks like — how to put your electrical safety programme on the same robust footing as your gas safety regime, and how to demonstrate compliance to the regulator.

    We’ll cover:

    • The legislation and what it means for social landlords (scope, five-year inspection cycle, duties and timelines)
    • Good practice and getting the basics right becoming and staying compliant under the Safety and Quality Standard
    • Running your programme: planning, scheduling, quality assurance and handling remedials
    • Data and recordkeeping: what to capture, how to evidence, and audit readiness
    • No-access and legal routes (injunctions, EPA, forced entry): proportionality and lessons learned
    • Contractor/DLO relationships: KPIs, SLAs and performance management
    • Risk management and disaster recovery: stress-testing your approach against failures and incidents.

    This workshop is essential for everyone involved in electrical safety across homes and communal areas — inspection, maintenance and compliance.

    What will be covered:

    • Latest legal/regulatory update for social landlords (five-year checks, standards; guidance)
    • Policies, procedures and systems: gap-analysis checklist to ensure they’re up to date with the Safety and Quality Standard
    • Data discipline: evidencing inspections, coding outcomes, remedials and re-tests
    • KPIs, monitoring and reporting: what to track, where to report and when
    • Managing no-access: process design and lawful escalation
    • Contractor/DLO alignment: commercial levers and quality control
    • Risk mitigation and contingency planning.

    Who should attend:

    • Heads of M&E
    • Electrical safety managers
    • Health and safety managers
    • Repairs and maintenance officers/operatives
    • Voids and housing managers
    • Surveyors and multi-skilled operatives
    • Operations management
    • Anyone responsible for contracting, assessing or managing electrical safety.
  • Programme

    10:30am – Welcome and introductions
    Kevin Bentley, HQN Associate

    10:40am – From box-ticking to assurance: electrical safety in 2026
    Kevin Bentley, HQN Associate

    11:10am – No-access to injunctions: the lawful ladder for electrical compliance
    Anna Bennett, Partner, Devonshires

    11:40am – Break

    11:50am – Data that stands up: EICR coding, QA and close-out
    Neil Holden, Consultant Engineer, Certsure (NICEIC)

    12:20pm – From backlog to board assurance: Livv’s route to five-year compliance
    Joe Williams, Head of Compliance & Legal, Livv Housing Group

    12:50pm – Wrap-up and final takeaways

    1:00pm – Close

  • Our speakers

    Kevin Bentley, Associate, HQN
    Kevin has worked in social housing in both the local government and housing association sectors for over 25 years, specialising in housing maintenance and stock investment issues.

    Kevin has been a HQN Associate for over 14 years, providing advice and support to many housing organisations.

    He has in-depth knowledge of all aspects of operational delivery and strategic asset management in the sector. He regularly carries out reviews of gas servicing and maintenance for organisations. He has in-depth knowledge of service delivery and best practice in the sector delivered by in-house/DLO contractors and out-sourced arrangements

    Kevin is also one of HQN’s key accreditation assessors specialising in HQN: DLO and HQN: gas repairs and asset management accreditations. He is also one of HQN’s trainers responsible for contract management and procurement.

    Kevin has carried out upwards of 120 service reviews and similar in-depth assessments of repairs and maintenance services for HQN clients, including a large number of gas servicing and maintenance reviews for organisations with both in-house contractors or outsourced and hybrid arrangements.

    Anna Bennett, Partner, Devonshires
    Anna advises and represents clients across all areas of housing management and property litigation, including nuisance and ASB, subletting and fraudulent succession claims, disrepair, and a range of leasehold and boundary disputes.

    Anna also supports clients outside of litigation by drafting and reviewing tenancy documentation, policies and procedures, and has a particular interest in working with housing co-operatives and the challenges they face. Anna is Devonshires’ main point of contact for Private Rented Sector work.

    She regularly writes and delivers webinars for clients and has been involved in significant litigation, including the Court of Appeal case Isaac Smith v Network Homes (2022) EWCA Civ 1631, which provided guidance on sentencing in civil contempt proceedings.

    Joe Williams, Head of Compliance and Legal, Livv Housing Group
    Joe joined Livv Housing Group after spending 10 years as a Building Surveyor, delivering a wide range of services for a national multi-disciplinary property and construction consultancy. Following the Grenfell tragedy, he began supporting Housing Associations with fire safety before moving to Livv Housing Group in 2021 as Building Safety Manager. In this role, Joe successfully established a new compliance function from the ground up.

    Since then, he has progressed to Head of Compliance and Legal, where he is responsible for ensuring full statutory property compliance, including the “big six” compliance areas, building safety, and legal disrepair. Joe is responsible for overseeing the delivery of Livv’s M&E programme, ensuring the business is positioned for maximum compliance and assurance to board. Along the way, he has helped streamline processes to drive efficiencies, particularly when dealing with those hard to access properties and management of both internal and external QA.

    Working within a Housing Association has given Joe the opportunity to directly influence customer safety, an area he is really passionate about. Joe draws on over 14 years of experience to apply his technical knowledge within the compliance space, driving standards and safeguarding our communities.

    Neil Holden, Consultant Engineer, Certsure (Home of NICEIC)
    Neil is a Consultant Engineer at Certsure, the organisation behind the NICEIC brand, supporting the building services sector through certification, technical leadership and advice.

    Through NICEIC Consulting, Neil helps housing associations and local authorities strengthen electrical safety, quality and compliance – providing independent insight on how programmes and processes stand up to scrutiny. NICEIC’s consultants support clients with areas such as safety health checks, gap analysis and quality control programmes, aimed at identifying weaknesses, improving oversight and enhancing safety outcomes.

    Neil will share practical learning from independent reviews and third-party audits, focusing on how to tighten processes around monitoring, contractor management, records, reporting and compliance controls for electrical safety programmes.

     

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    Otherwise, a cancellation fee of £60 plus VAT will be chargeable.

    If you are using a package place to attend and do not inform us within the agreed time frame, then a place will be taken to cover your non-attendance.

    Cancellations must be made in writing and will be acknowledged by HQN Limited.

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