Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting standards for social housing
SFHA has been working with members of its Finance Forum and The Good Economy (which led the development of the original version) to produce a version that reflects the Scottish regulatory and legislative context.
A new Sustainability Reporting Standard (SRS) for social housing in the UK was published at the end of last year to provide a common framework which social landlords can use to report on their environmental and social impact, and their governance arrangements (ESG).
The aim of the new standard is to build consensus around how to measure and report on ESG in the social housing sector to reduce the information burden and, ultimately, to attract more investment into the sector.
SFHA has been working with members of its Finance Forum and The Good Economy (which led the development of the original version) to produce a version that reflects the Scottish regulatory and legislative context.
SFHA intends to engage the wider membership in the next stages of the process and will be clearer about this following further discussion with the newly formed UK-wide Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing Board.
SFHA will keep members up to date on the progress of this work and would welcome expressions of interest from members who are keen to be involved in any next steps (please email SFHA Policy Lead Shona Mitchell at smitchell@sfha.co.uk).
Background information on the project can be found here.