Service Improvement and Scrutiny for Local Authorities

Our communities of practice are a group of like minded professionals that work (or have an interest in) an area of housing practice.

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About

The remit of this community of practice is to share practice on regulatory requirements and developments, national scrutiny developments and learning from outcomes, sharing knowledge and experience of service improvement tools and approaches. The community of practice also regularly shares knowledge and learning on customer satisfaction measurement approaches and tenant scrutiny activities. 

Who is it for

This community of practice meets twice per year and is aimed at performance managers, service improvement managers and general housing managers and officers who are responsible for coordinating and managing service monitoring and improvement activities in local authorities.

Key Content

1

Data insights, including review of Charter and network data, good practice and common errors. Tenant insight – a toolkit for landlords

2

Annual Assurance Statements – reviews of key themes

3

Tenant scrutiny panels – best practice

4

Meeting new statutory requirements, including Getting to know you – collecting equalities information and Human Rights-based approaches to housing

5

Tenant Scrutiny – sharing best practice

6

Value for Money – What is value for money – best practice

7

Regulatory intervention – learning from others’ experience sharing best practice

Services

Forthcoming Events

Enabling data driven decisions

In this session our data consultants, Bridgeall, will discuss and introduce how you can take the data within your business systems, feed this into reporting tools and use this to improve decision making
2nd May 2024

Latest News

SHN Data Collection Arrangements 2024

25-Mar-24
Data collection arrangements for the reporting year 2023/24. Published March 2024.

SHN ARC Validation Services 2024

27-Feb-24
ARC validation services available to SHN members for 2024.

Development Value for Money

27-Feb-24
The network is currently collecting data for Q3 of 2023/24

Publications and reports

East Dunbartonshire Council presentation – Approaches to Allocations session – April 2024

Presentation by Claire McNeill of East Dunbartonshire Council at SHN's "Approaches to Allocations" session, held April 2024.

Member Responses – Allocations Policies – April 2024

Responses received to a recent member query circulated amongst our LA members on Allocations Policies. April 2024.

Charter Preparation 2024 – Notes from recent session with Christine Dugan – March 2024

Notes compiled from recent Charter Preparation sessions with Christine Dugan, March 2024.

Past Events

Approaches to Allocations discussion session

A roundtable discussion among both LA's and RSL's on the pros and cons of various allocations models, i.e. Choice-Based Lettings, Needs based, CHR etc.
11th Apr 2024
Microsoft Teams

Charter Preparation Session 2024 – 26th March (In Person)

In person Charter Preparation session, led by expert Christine Dugan. Please only book to attend one of these 3 sessions as content will be identical and demand is likely to be high.
26th Mar 2024
Burns Suite, COSLA, Verity House, 19 Haymarket Yards, Haymarket, Edinburgh, EH12 5BH

Charter Preparation Session 2024 – 25th March (Teams)

SHN's annual Charter Preparation session, led by expert Christine Dugan. Please only book to attend one of these 3 sessions as content will be identical and demand is likely to be high.
25th Mar 2024
Microsoft Teams

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