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Bitesize

Housing and working together

Where housing sits, and multi-agency working.

Level
Bitesize
Learning time
1 hour 30 minutes
Where
The Public Sector
Price
£39

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. Read the full terms

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About this course

Overview and Outcomes.

Overview

Not every social landlord is the council. This module sets out how council housing differs from independent, not-for-profit housing associations, places both within a wider market that includes private renting, and compares regulation in England, through the Regulator of Social Housing and the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023, with direct Welsh Government regulation. It covers Awaab's Law, the Renters' Rights Act 2025 and the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016. Most serious public service work crosses organisational lines, and failures open at the boundary. This module looks at Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements, integrated health and social care and joint emergency response, draws on Avanti's Leading Partnerships material and its four conditions, and examines why inquiries find everyone assumed someone else was responsible. It sets out the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and JESIP, with practical questions for crossing boundaries.

What you'll develop

In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:

  1. Distinguish council housing from housing associations by ownership, decision-making and the rules that apply.
  2. Compare how social landlords are regulated in England and in Wales, including the changes made by the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023.
  3. Apply a two-part check of nation and landlord type before relying on any rule, including Awaab's Law and renting law on each side of the border.
  4. Describe how MAPPA, integrated health and social care and joint emergency response bring separate bodies together around shared work.
  5. Explain why accountability blurs when delivery crosses organisational boundaries, using the four ways delivery slips and the limits of coordinating frameworks.
  6. Apply practical questions about duties, handovers and a shared picture, alongside the four conditions for partnership, when your work crosses a boundary.
What it covers

The Modules.

1 hour 30 minutes of learning.

  1. 11Where Housing Sits in the LandscapeNot every social landlord is the council. This module sets out how council housing differs from independent, not-for-profit housing associations, places both within a wider market that includes private renting, and compares regulation in England, through the Regulator of Social Housing and the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023, with direct Welsh Government regulation. It covers Awaab's Law, the Renters' Rights Act 2025 and the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016.44 min
  2. 12Working Across the Landscape: Multi-Agency Delivery and Statutory DutyMost serious public service work crosses organisational lines, and failures open at the boundary. This module looks at Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements, integrated health and social care and joint emergency response, draws on Avanti's Leading Partnerships material and its four conditions, and examines why inquiries find everyone assumed someone else was responsible. It sets out the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and JESIP, with practical questions for crossing boundaries.43 min
Where it fits

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Part of the The Public Sector topic, also sold whole as How the public sector works.

How credit works

Go deeper, and pay only the difference

  1. You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 30 minutes, £39
  2. Next stepFocus, Across the landscape, 4 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
  3. Explore, Services on the ground, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
  4. The whole topicImmerse, How the public sector works, 10 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.

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

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