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CWAG News Update August 2021

This update includes the following:

CWAG Organisational Update
Building Safety Bill
Latest NFA / ARCH Welfare Reform Survey
CWAG Annual General Meeting - 28th September 2021
Recent Government releases / New in the library

CWAG News Update July 2021

This update includes the following:

· Positive council housing stories campaign

· Housing Inquiry launched by House of Lords Select Committee

· Recently published Housing Ombudsman Reports

· Recent Government releases

· Future CWAG Meetings - Timetable 2021

CWAG News Update May 2021

This update includes the following:

• Next CWAG General meeting - ALMO Clienting

• Housing Ombudsman to investigate damp and mould issues.

• Fire Safety Act 2021

• Recent Government releases

• Future CWAG Meetings - Timetable 2021

CWAG News Update March 2021

This update includes the following:

· RTB Receipts Consultation Response

· CWAG Decarbonisation Meeting

· Complaints Update

· Smart Clienting Project

· Recent Publications

CWAG News Update February 2021

This update includes the following:

· CWAG / NFA Smart Clienting Project

· Review of the Decent Homes Standard

· CWAG Decarbonisation Meeting

· Evictions ban extended until 31^st March 2021

· LGA webinar – What next for the regulation of council housing?

· Recent Publications

CWAG News Update January 2021

This update includes the following:

· National Lockdown - Latest Covid Guidance Updates

· CWAG Clienting Survey – feedback and next steps

· Government Announces Reform of Leasehold

· CWAG Finance and Business Planning Meeting

· New reports setting out landlord performance on tenant complaints

CWAG News Update - November 2020

This update includes the following:

· Social Housing White Paper – key issues for councils with ALMOs

· Spending Review Headlines

· Next CWAG Event - details

· CWAG Clienting Survey - Reminder

· LGA Housing Advisers Programme 2020/21 - opens for bids

· Recent publications and government releases

CWAG News Update - October 2020

This update includes the following:

· CSR Dropped due to Covid pressures

· Overview of recent publications

CWAG News Update - September 2020

This update includes the following:

· CWAG AGM September 2020

· Evictions Ban Update

· Affordable Homes Programme Launched

· New Shared Ownership Model

· Consultation Paper – Raising accessibility standards for new homes

· New in the Library / Recent Publications

CWAG News Update August 2020

This update includes the following:

· Government plans for reform of the planning system

· Draft Building Safety Bill

· Evictions Ban extended

· CWAG AGM September 2020

· New in the Library / Recent Publications

CWAG News Update July 2020

This update includes the following:

· Chancellor’s Summer Economic Statement

· TPAS Tenant Engagement Report

· CWAG Alternative General Meeting Feedback

· Executive Vacancy

· Latest information on Covid19 / New in the Library / Recent Publications

Summary of Covid19 Updates up to December 2020

CWAG News Update March 2020

This update includes the following:

· Budget 2020 – Housing Announcements

· Housing Ombudsman - changes to Complaints Arrangements

· First Homes- Consultation

· Coronavirus and future CWAG Events

· New in the Library / Recent Publications

CWAG News Update January 2020

This update includes the following:

· Housing priorities and proposed legislation

· Fire Safety Announcements

· CWAG Finance and Business Planning Meeting

· Ministerial visits and new build

· Recent Publications

CWAG News Update November 2019

This update includes the following:

· Housing Policy as featured in the Election Manifestos

· CWAG Members’ Survey ‘You and Your ALMO’

· Diary Date – CWAG Finance and Business Planning Workshop

· Velux Safety Warning

· CIPFA – new housing products

· Publications / New in the Library

CWAG News Update October 2019

This update includes the following:

· CWAG Annual General Meeting

· Housing Policy as featured during the Party Conferences

· New Right to Shared Ownership

· New council houses win the Stirling Architectural Prize

· Recent Government Releases / Publications

· Other Publications

· Reminder on rents from the Regulator

CWAG News Update August 2019

This update includes the following:

· Ministerial changes

· ARCH/NFA Universal Credit Survey

· Changes to the CWAG website

· CWAG Annual General Meeting

· Recent Publications

CWAG News Update July 2019

This update includes the following:

· CWAG/ Tpas - Tenant Engagement Good Practice Toolkit

· Building a Safer Future consultation

· Addison Act Celebrations update

· Response to the Social Housing Green Paper likely to be September

· Recent Publications /New in the Library

· Save the Date

CWAG News Update - May 2019

This update includes the following:

Regulator issues reminder on Consumer Standards Compliance
Consultation on the Rent Standard from April 2020
Addison Act Celebrations
Recent Publications /New in the Library

CWAG News Update - March 2019

This update includes the following topics:

Changes to Rent Regulation
Update from the Consumer Standards Working Group
53 Mondays and Universal Credit
Addison Act Commemorations
Recent Publications / New in the Library

News Update - February 2019

This update includes the following topics:

Government plans for overhaul of housing complaints system

Future CWAG Meetings – Diary Dates

Addison Act Commemorations

Recent Publications / New in the Library

CWAG News Update - January 2019

This update includes the following topics:

Government publishes response to the Hackitt Review
Homes (Fitness for Habitation) Act
Social Housing Commission Report - Shelter
New build Network Meeting - 20th February 2019
53 Week Rent Year and Universal Credit
New in the Library

CWAG News Update - November 2018

This update includes the following topics:

Responding to the Social Housing Green Paper
CIH launches rethinking allocations project
Review of the CWAG website
LGA Business Ready Springboard Programme
Members' Noticeboard - CWAG Website
Recent Publications / New in the Library
Responding to the Social Housing Green

CWAG News Update - October 2018

This update includes the following topics:

Social Housing Green Paper
CWAG Annual General Meeting
Announcement on lifting of HRA borrowing caps
Consultation on Rents for Social Housing post 2010
Recent Publications / New in the Library

CWAG News Update - August 2018

This update includes the following topics:

'A new deal for social housing' - Social Housing Green Paper - key points
Use of receipts from Right to Buy Sales - consultation
Announcement clarifying future funding arrangements for supported housing
Rough Sleeping Strategy launched
CWAG AGM - further details

CWAG News Update July 2018

This update includes the following topics:

Tenant engagement update
Prospectus - Additional HRA Borrowing Programme
Rethinking Social Housing Report CIH
Right to Buy - is it time for a re-think?
CWAG Website - New in the Library

CWAG News Update May 2018

This update includes information and links to the following topics:

· Social Housing Green Paper Update

· Feedback from ARCH New build Network Meeting attended by CWAG

· Hackitt Report

· Welfare Reform Survey – NFA

· Building Council Homes for Londoners – Prospectus

· Right to Buy Receipts – review announced

· New documents in the library / Recent Publications