Scottish Housing Regulator

The Scottish Housing Regulator welcomed the appointment by Scottish Ministers of Lindsay Paterson as its new deputy chair. Lindsay took over from the current deputy Ewan Fraser on 31 August 2026 to 31 October 2029. Ewan will remain a board member until the 31 March 2027, when he will have completed

North Lanarkshire Council has provided its annual assurance to the Scottish Housing Regulator that the local authority is meeting its responsibilities to tenants, residents and people who use the housing services.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has published its National Report on the Scottish Social Housing Charter for 2025 to 2026, which has been compiled based on information submitted by social landlords through their Annual Return on the Charter (ARC).

The Scottish Housing Regulator has today published its summary of the notifiable events reported by Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) during 2025/26.

A range of effective approaches social landlords take to help formerly homeless households sustain their tenancies have been highlighted in a new report from the Scottish Housing Regulator.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has published findings from its thematic review of the self-assurance work social landlords did to enable them to submit their Annual Assurance Statement by October 2025. The Regulator found that all the landlords they visited have embedded their self-assurance process

The cabinet secretary for Social Justice and Housing Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP announced on 16 July that Marieke Dwarshuis has been reappointed as a chair of the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator Board.  Dwarshuis career in Scotland spans almost three decades in the public and voluntar

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) and the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) have today published an updated Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which sets out how they will work together to regulate charitable Registered Social Landlords. SHR and OSCR have distinct statutory responsib

The Scottish Housing Regulator has today published its revised Determination of Accounting Requirements, a document which sets out how Registered Social Landlords must prepare and present their annual accounts, ensuring transparency and consistency across the sector. The Regulator recently consulted

The Scottish Housing Regulator has set out its continued commitment to children’s rights and to people with care experience in two newly published documents. The Children’s Rights Report sets out what the Regulator did during the past three years and what it will do during 2026-2029 to s

The Scottish Housing Regulator has published a summary of the main areas of work it plans to do during 2026/27. Aligned to the priorities set out in its 2024 – 2027 Strategy, the Regulator said its plans are focused on delivering its statutory regulatory functions, listening to tenants, servic

Helen Trouten Torres shares an update from the latest meeting of the Scottish Housing Regulator's Tenants Together (Scotland) Scottish Housing Regulator Liaison Group. We work with tenant representatives through the Tenants Together (Scotland) Scottish Housing Regulator Liaison Group as one of the w

The Scottish Housing Regulator has provided an update on its scrutiny of River Clyde Homes after identifying a series of compliance failures relating to tenant and resident safety, alongside concerns about service quality and wider governance. In an updated engagement position, the Regulator said it

New research published today from the Scottish Housing Regulator has highlighted tenants’ concerns about future rent affordability.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has launched a consultation on a further proposed revision to the Determination of Accounting Requirements (the Determination). The Regulator consulted last year on changes to the content of the Determination and published a revised Determination in December 2025. The