Our recordings cover various topics, from practical housing management and high-level policy discussions to events designed to support your professional development. All recordings are free for all CIH members, log in and listen/watch from anywhere.
Building better boards
We were delighted to host our first CIH Building better boards event with over 200 people in attendance throughout the day.we presented our new offer to boards to help drive best practice, knowledge sharing and promote professionalism that drives assurance and innovation across the sector.
Expert panels discussed governance and building better boards in the 4 sessions listed below:
- Building better boards
- Putting people's voices at the heart of governance
- The new business as usual: What does this mean for good governance
- Boards cannot live by governance alone
A summary of the discussions is included in our Building better boards virtual pack
Homelessness during Coronavirus and beyond
Margaret-Ann Brunjes, chief executive, Homeless Network Scotland and Clare Mailer, head of housing service at Perth and Kinross Council explored the challenges of dealing with homelessness during the Coronavirus outbreak and discussed how we ensure that homelessness doesn’t increase when restrictions begin to be eased.
Launch of research into affordable housing need in Scotland 2021-2026
Shelter Scotland, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, and CIH Scotland launched new research into affordable housing need in Scotland. The findings set out the number of affordable homes Scotland needs between 2021 and 2026. At this launch event, we heard about demographic and housing market trends in the Scottish housing system and what this means in terms of access to affordable homes in the short-to medium-term.
In 2015, the organisations’ joint research helped to inform the current affordable housing supply programme, and the study has been repeated with the aim of setting a new robust target that will meet existing and future need.
Ensuring equality during lockdown
Our speakers, Alicja Zalesinka, Director of Tai Pawb and Hannah Wharf, External Affairs Principal, Equality Human Rights Commission explored how the Coronavirus crisis is impacting the poorer and more vulnerable people in our communities and throwing up barriers to the way that we would normally provide services.
We discussed how to can ensure that we maintain equality in the allocation of housing options and support services provision during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Shine a light on mental health and housing
We were joined by our president Aileen Evans for this session on mental health and housing. Learn more about the mental health toolkit that has been created especially for the housing sector. We also heard from experts in the field of mental health and from leading housing organisations on how they have applied best practice for both staff and residents alike.
The future of sheltered housing
The expert panel looked at the housing needs of our ageing population and whether the current sheltered housing stock is suitable for purpose.
Areas discussed were:
- The housing needs of our ageing population
- Is the current sheltered housing stock suitable for purpose?
- How have sheltered housing services been evolving in recent years?
- Supporting sheltered tenants through the Coronavirus pandemic
- Funding and partnership opportunities to enhance the sheltered housing offer
- Ensuring effective tenant participation in sheltered housing
- Can we sustain sheltered housing with the squeeze on Supporting People funding?
- The need for co-operation with the health and social care sector in developing future models of sheltered accommodation
- Examples of good practice.
ASB think tank
We heard from experts on the subject of ASB covering a legal update, best practice and different approaches to dealing with ASB and how to tackle ASB in the lockdown environment.
Investing in healthier homes, decarbonisation and sustainability
Tyfu Tai Cymru and Public Health Wales hosted this webinar to discuss the steps we need to take to ensure we are able to meet the requirements for decarbonisation while also investing in healthy homes now and in the future.
Digital inclusion in housing during social distancing
Eilidh Little, digital development Officer, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations and Rory Brown community inclusion Assistant, Govan Housing Association explored how housing organisations can continue to support their tenants, particularly those who are most vulnerable, with digital inclusion support in a time of social distancing and self-isolation due to coronavirus.
Aspects covered were:
- Guiding principles to digital inclusion
- Key digital skills to focus on for staff and tenants
- What devices and apps are most helpful
- Safeguarding considerations
- What it looks like in practice – a case study from Govan Housing Association
- Key resources
The power of reverse mentoring
Ronika Cunningham, involvement manager and mentor discussed the benefits of LGBT+ reverse mentoring with her colleagues from Home Group in this round table style webinar.
The topics covered include:
- What it is
- Why we did it
- How it works
- What we got out of it
- Top tips for setting up Reverse Mentoring
