Scotland’s Housing Network

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Scotland’s Housing Network has welcomed the news that its Housing Options Training Toolkit has been shortlisted for the ‘Working in Partnership’ category at the CIH Housing Awards 2024. The Housing Options Training Toolkit is an online training platform that has been developed by t

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Scotland’s Housing Network has completed modules in a new Housing Options Toolkit. Created in co-operation with the Housing hubs, the Steering Group and the Scottish Government, the modules will become live to all existing users on 28th March 2024.

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Scotland’s Housing Network (SHN) has launched its first annual report highlighting findings from the inaugural year of its Development Value for Money (DVfM) tool. The purpose of the tool is to provide developing landlords with detailed analysis of cost, time and tenant satisfaction indicators

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Scottish social housing landlords have shown improved performances in many areas though landlords continue to face many challenges across the sector, according to Scotland’s Housing Network. Scotland’s Housing Network is the largest benchmarking network for social housing landlords in Sc

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Scotland’s Housing Network (SHN) has joined in partnership with Scotland’s local authorities to manage Scotland’s Housing Options Toolkit. As a result, SHN has appointed Leza Lafferty as learning/development officer and as the main contact for the new Housing Options Toolkit.

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Scotland’s Housing Network (SHN) has appointed Graeme Winning, East Ayrshire Council as chair of the board. SHN is a membership organisation which supports social rented sector landlords to improve services by benchmarking cost and performance data, sharing knowledge and best practice through

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Scotland’s Housing Network and the Tenants Information Service (TIS) have undertaken a consultation with social housing tenants across Scotland. This consisted of a survey and a series of focus groups in order to better understand tenant’s views and attitudes towards social housing and t

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A new report on alternative models of rent control for Scotland has been launched by the Cross Party Group on Housing launched at a meeting in the Scottish Parliament yesterday. During the meeting, Professor Ken Gibb, director of the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE), presented th

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The power of ‘local’ has once again been strongly evidenced by the latest Charter data but wider threats to the independence of community-based housing associations still exist, according to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF). Produced for GWSF by Scotl

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With great sadness, Scotland’s Housing Network (SHN) has announced that its much-loved colleague Misia Jack passed away peacefully at home in the early hours of Friday 13th May after a long and brave fight with brain cancer. Misia was not only a valued colleague but also a friend to

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Attracting and retaining new governing body members has been reported as a key challenge facing the housing sector in a survey of housing governing bodies. Scotland’s Housing Network has undertaken a survey of housing governing bodies to understand the composition and demographics of governing

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A new suite of building safety KPIs is to be launched in April by Scotland’s Housing Network, and Housemark Scotland with the support of the Scottish Housing Regulator.

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