Overview
Housing disrepair claims are on the rise. With payouts and legal costs totalling anywhere from £5,000 to £50,000 per case, disrepair claims are proving to be a pandemic for the housing industry. Many housing associations do not know how to adequately defend themselves against housing disrepair claims or prevent them in the first place.
This Effectively Reducing Disrepair Claims in Housing course gives you the necessary tools to be able to tackle housing disrepair claims and prevent them from occurring. This intimate interactive training course provides the opportunity to learn how to create better policies and procedures that will tackle the rising costs of housing disrepair claims.
This course provides the opportunity to explore the current legislation and assess multi-departmental communications. This course will also help your institution to improve awareness of repair channels and create a next-step action plan on how to improve current policies and procedures.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the current legislation surrounding housing disrepair claims
- Hear an update on the Fitness for Human Habitation Bill and the implications this has had on the powers of private and social tenants to take their landlords to court
- Learn how better multi-departmental communications can effectively reduce repairs
- Gain insight in to how improved marketing of repair channels can prevent disrepair claims
- Develop an action plan on how to create an effective repairs reporting system
