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.
Leadership in housing - a looming capability gap?
The Chartered Institute of Housing and the Institute of Leadership and Management launched their report ‘Leadership in Housing – a looming capability gap?’ The research for this report was presented along with recommendations on how we can ensure the future strength and success of the UK housing sector. We as the professional body recognise that there has been a leadership gap widening in the sector for some time and our report will help to lay the foundations of the steps we want to take with you to fix the problem.
in 2020 we have seen the broad range of skills that leaders need to have in order to be successful and keep the organisation running. It is fundamental that we as a sector do more to support aspiring leaders, in a meaningful and sustained way.
Drawing on the expertise of the Institute of Leadership and Management, this isn’t just about how we can be good leaders now and develop future talent, but more so, how we can do that in housing context. We are excited to also announce that our partnership will be going further in bringing you a joint membership offer.
Leadership in Housing – a looming capability gap? - Read the report
Joint membership offer with The Institute of Leadership and Management
Tipping point: Health and housing – building better partnerships
We heard about iHub’s work to support the housing sector in Scotland in dealing with the immediate impact of the Coronavirus outbreak and longer-term plans to promote better practice and partnership working between housing, health and social care. We also heard how Bield has had to adapt their services and what support they offered to tenants, as well as their experience of working with partners in health and social care.
Good housing is essential to our health and wellbeing. If there was ever any doubt about this, it has been well and truly extinguished by the Coronavirus epidemic which has cast new light on the inequalities within our society. People without a secure place to live, or space to work, and for children to learn and play, have been hit much harder by the pandemic.
At the same time, the amazing work of social landlords has ensured that tenants and communities have been supported, and that food and other essentials are being distributed to those who need them. As we start to adjust to a ‘new normal’ after Coronavirus, we need to be asking what lessons can be learned from the housing sector’s response to the pandemic and how can we build better relationships with our partners in health and social care?
Developing and retrofitting: the low carbon agenda
John Kiely, director of housing & public sector at Savills and Brian Rankin, energy manager at Choice Housing looked at the low- and zero-carbon agenda and retrofit of existing homes. Discussing the opportunities and current challenges, they shared examples of developing new homes to higher energy standards including Passive House, zero carbon, Code 5, and Code 4 projects.
Social Housing Allocations for now and the future
The complexities of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown has brought housing into sharp relief and means it is more important than ever that we are clear of the need and purpose of social housing in Wales. A central part of this is the allocation policies and processes that support people to access social housing in Wales.
Tyfu Tai Cymru looked across all local authority areas to understand how the allocations process works in different locations. Shelter Cymru presented findings from their detailed research which focused on the Swansea area.
All speakers explored what works and what can be improved.
Getting your repairs service back up and running during COVID-19
As we start easing the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions what will the impact be on repairs and maintenance services? How will organisations deal with the backlog of repairs, reach out to customers in a meaningful way and manage customer expectations.?
Our speakers reviewed the current situation, explored how we work towards returning to normal service, considering how long this might take and explored whether there are opportunities to be taken from this crisis to do things differently in the future.
Bonfires to beacons: community cohesion in Northern Ireland
Celebrations of culture and heritage can be an important part of life for some and a contentious issue for others. Tanya, Gavin & Mark examined the role social housing landlords can play in supporting communities to explore the diverse range of opportunities available to them in reimaging celebrating their cultural heritage differently, and looked at how we can learn from the journey's others have already embraced and how can we support positive expressions of culture.
International best practice examples, local office case studies and findings from consultation with staff and customers were explored alongside a series of practical initiatives designed to support communities' initiate conversations around change.
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.
