This briefing sets out the key challenges Brexit may bring for housing associations and how we can be ready for what may come.
Scottish Government introduces Universal Credit flexibilities
The Work and Pensions Committee have launched two inquiries - the first is a re-launch into Universal Credit, the second is an inquiry into the benefit cap. SFHA would like to ask for member input in order to draft evidence for these inquiries.
Thanks to input from SFHA members, SFHA have responded to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) consultation on funding reforms of supported housing. Read this article to find out more.
In her speech, on the first day of the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, Prime Minister Theresa May announced that she would trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty no later than end of March 2017. This will formally start the two-year period of the UK’s exit negotiations with the European Union. The role to be played by the Scottish Government and parliament in the Brexit process that Article 50 will trigger remains unclear.
SFHA is providing a monthly Brexit Bulletin for our members. Find it here.
The Scotland Act 2016 will devolve considerable new powers for the Scottish Parliament. This article summarises the activity did on behalf of member in relation to the Scotland Act 2016.
SFHA has outlined its initial areas of concern about the impact of Brexit on Scottish housing associations in a submission to the European and External Relations Committee of the Scottish Parliament.
Now in its ninth year, the ‘Baxter Keiller Award’ is named in honour of a keen Mayfield gardener and Melville tenant who sadly passed away in 2014.
SFHA and members reflect on challenges of the cost-of-living crisis as we mark our 48th annual general meeting.
The past and the future were celebrated at a family event in the Tweeddale Arms Hotel in Gifford, followed by the organisation’s 25th AGM in September.
The notable increase in Elderpark’s regeneration work has been facilitated by the appointment in 2022 of the Association’s Community Regeneration Officer Jonathan Giddings-Reid.
This meeting provided an opportunity for Forth’s members, staff and tenants to hear how Forth have been performing over the last year and to receive the latest set of annual accounts.
With their expertise in risk management, strategy development, governance, digitisation, human resources, legal services, and local issues, the board is poised to enhance Bridgewater's operations and drive progress.
In order to ensure the AGM is quorate SFHA would encourage Member Representatives to attend.
The scale of the housing association’s intervention on a range of issues was revealed to members at its AGM on Tuesday of this week.
