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Councils getting worse housing grades
HOUSING

Councils getting worse housing grades

By Neil Merrick | 01 May 2026

Councils are receiving the vast majority of lower grades awarded to social landlords for housing services they provide to tenants.

HOUSING

Lessons from consumer regulation

By Catherine Little | 23 April 2026

Catherine Little looks at what can be gleaned from the Regulator of Social Housing’s inspections ...

HOUSING

Basildon hit with lowest possible social housing grade

By William Eichler | 15 April 2026

Basildon BC has been awarded the lowest possible social housing grade after an inspection uncover...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Three wishes to transform children's care needs

By John Pearce | 05 March 2026

There are challenges endemic across children’s care nearly four years on from the MacAlister revi...

CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND ACCOUNTANCY

CIPFA warning over profit capping reforms

By Dan Peters | 23 February 2026

Financial oversight and profit capping reforms to the children’s residential care market may fail...

HOUSING

Regulator hits county council with lowest grading

By William Eichler | 12 February 2026

Northumberland CC has been issued with a C4 grading for its social housing - the lowest possible ...

HOUSING

Watchdog uncovers 'serious failings' in social housing

By Martin Ford | 17 December 2025

Gosport BC has received the lowest grading for its social housing after a regulator found ‘unacce...

HOUSING

Lords committee urges Government to hand council BSR responsibility

By Paul Marinko | 11 December 2025

The Government has been urged to hand some Building Safety Regulator (BSR) responsibilities to co...

DATA

Turning unstructured data into confident compliance

By Kylie Allen | 09 December 2025

Kylie Allen of Global SaaS provider TechnologyOne says that in a world where transparency and tru...

GRENFELL

Failures continue at Grenfell council, peers find

By Joe Lepper | 11 November 2025

Housing challenges are continuing at the council at the centre of the Grenfell tragedy, a Local G...

REGULATION

Building Safety Regulator delays prompt rethink

By Neil Merrick | 28 October 2025

Elements of building safety could be removed from the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) and returne...

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