Housing Scotland Magazine February 2012

Welcome to another meaty edition of Housing Scotland with contributions from staff and guests, commenting on the emerging fault lines in social housing in Scotland.

This month we cover some of the biggest issues affecting the future work of the sector. David Stewart considers the Green Deal for associations and cooperatives in Scotland, and the chair of the Fuel Poverty alliance explains how he thinks our sector can help alleviate fuel poverty. We have updates on regeneration and wider role funding, and on opportunities to use the Change Fund to address the needs of an ageing population.

We have an opinion piece on the future of new build and on the potential train crash ahead with changes to Housing Benefit. David Ogilvie also provides an update on the ‘progress' of the Welfare Reform Bill in the Lords.

But in this season of Burns, it's good to see ourselves as others see us and so have an upbeat perspective from Sharon Chisholm of St Andrews University and an interview with Housing and Transport Minister Keith Brown, who tells us how he sees us, our work and the array of challenges facing us all.

Here are some articles in this months magazine:

• Interview with the Housing Minister
• Welfare Reform - Wake Up Call!
• Green Deal - Will it Work For Us?
• Fuel Poverty - Working Together
• Change Fund and What it Means
  
• The New Bribery Act
  
• Data Protection Compliance
• Opinion Piece - Regeneration
• Wider Role - No More
• New Business Opportunities
• I-FLAIR Landmark Joint Agreement
  
• SFHA Welcomes Interns
• Cassiltoun Chair Awarded MBE
• Opinion Piece - New Builds
• Management to Leadership

Also inside........ Round the Houses.....SFHA Events.....Local Authority News.....Contract News