The Regulator requires all social landlords to submit an Annual Assurance Statement each year to confirm that they meet regulatory requirements or to set out how they will address any areas of non-compliance.

This year, the Regulator also asked landlords to provide specific assurance in their Statements about their compliance with their obligations in relation to tenant and resident safety.

In their Statements, 148 landlords said they were compliant with regulatory requirements, with 12 landlords stating they did not. Reasons for this non-compliance include failing to comply with homelessness duties, tenant and resident safety duties or regulatory requirements.

They are:

• East Dunbartonshire Council
• Fife Council
• Glasgow City Council
• Stirling Council
• Clackmananshire Council
• City of Edinburgh Council
• East Lothian Council
• East Renfrewshire Council
• Falkirk Council
• Moray Council
• Blochairn Housing Association
• Perth and Kinross Council

The Annual Assurance Statements set out the landlord’s assessment of compliance at a point in time. The Regulator said it will assess the statements as part of its annual risk assessment and publish the outcomes from the risk assessment in updated engagement plans for each landlord.

Michael Cameron, chief executive at the Regulator, said: “Social landlords continue to operate in a challenging economic environment while striving to deliver homes and services at rents tenants can afford and facing rising costs and increasing demands, including around housing quality.

“Scotland’s homelessness system continues to experience significant challenges, and in their Statements this year some local authority landlords again told us about the difficulties they face meeting their statutory duties in relation to homelessness, including the requirement to provide suitable temporary accommodation.

”We will assess the Statements as part of our annual risk assessment, taking into account the challenging context for landlords. We will publish the outcomes from the risk assessment in updated Engagement Plans for each landlord. This will include any changes to the regulatory status for RSLs.”

This article has been updated to include the 12 landlords.