Running a social landlord
Housing association history, types, governance and finance.
A half day on the social landlord as an organisation: its history, co-regulation, board and executive roles, strategy and the mixed financial model.
- Level
- Explore
- Learning time
- 5 hours
- Where
- Foundations of Social Housing
- Price
- £129
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Developing housing leaders, board members and partners of housing associations
Overview
Running a social landlord is a half-day dive into how housing associations came to be and how they are governed, financed and steered. It traces the sector from Victorian philanthropy and the Addison Act to the Right to Buy, the Housing Act 1988 and Large Scale Voluntary Transfer, and compares the different types of association with stock-retaining councils. It then explains co-regulation in England and Wales, the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023, the roles of board, chair, chief executive and committees, and how decisions are made. It ends with the strategic framework and the mixed financial model of grant, borrowing, cross subsidy and rent.
Aims
This programme aims to give developing housing leaders, board members and partners a rounded grasp of the social landlord as an organisation, so they can follow how history, regulation, governance and finance shape its choices and play a confident part in setting its direction.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Explain how social housing evolved and compare LSVT, traditional and specialist associations and stock-retaining councils by origin, governance and accountability.
- Distinguish the roles of board, committees, chair, chief executive and regulator in setting direction and making decisions in England and Wales.
- Assess how a housing association's mission, business plan and mixed funding model fit together to sustain both social purpose and financial health.
What you'll develop
Across this Explore, you will develop the ability to:
- Place the major landmarks in the history of social housing in order, from Victorian philanthropy to the Housing Act 1988.
- Explain what Large Scale Voluntary Transfer is, why it emerged and how the tenant ballot shaped it.
- Identify the three distinctive features of a housing association board, including tenant board members with full voting rights.
- Explain why housing association boards delegate to committees and describe the four elements that make a committee trustworthy.
- Describe the four building blocks of a housing association's strategic framework and how they fit together across the planning cycle.
- Describe the four ingredients of housing association finance and explain how they combine on a single development.
Built from 4 parts.
5 hours of learning.
- 01Where social housing came fromHistory of social housing and LSVT landlordsBitesize2 modules
- 02Boards, chairs and regulatorsHousing association governance and regulationBitesize2 modules
- 03Inside the boardroomHousing association committees and decisionsBitesize2 modules
- 04Balancing mission and moneyHousing association finance and strategyBitesize2 modules
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When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Leading homes and communities