All You Want To Know About Local Authority Housing FinancE

Aim

This course provides delegates with a working knowledge of local authority housing which will put you and your colleagues in a position of advantage. Our 2015 series of seminars and workshops is designed to give an introduction and overview to this important subject and is fully up to date with all developments.

Content

This course will include coverage on:

How does the Housing Revenue Account work?

Accounting Basics; Revenue and Capital; Ring Fencing; Income and Expenditure Accounts; Management, Maintenance and Capital Financing Costs; Social Rents; Affordable Rents; Rent Reforms; Service Charges for Leaseholders and Tenants.

How does the Housing General Fund work?

Strategic Housing responsibilities; Housing Benefit; New Homes Bonus; Private Sector Housing; Homelessness; Supporting People; Working with Housing Associations.

What are the Implications of Self-Financing?

Implications of the government’s policies for rent after 2015; Redistribution of Housing Debt and Tenanted Market Value; Implications for Treasury Management; Treatment of Depreciation and Financing of Major Repairs; Self-Financed Housing Revenue Account Business Plans; Decent Homes Standard; distribution of capital grants; Prudential Borrowing and the ‘Borrowing Cap’; Local Growth Fund; Capital Receipts and the Right to Buy initiative; Options for funding Investment; New Build.

What are the Financial Opportunities and Threats for Local Authority Housing?

Welfare Reform (incl. Under-Occupation Penalty, Total Benefits Cap, and Universal Credit); Risk Management; Value for Money; Procurement; Shared Services; Asset Management; Arms-Length Management; Stock Transfer; Private Finance Initiative; What the future might hold.

Participative Case Study: An opportunity to look in depth at issues, including the potential for new build that arise in a Self-Financed Housing Revenue Account.

Outcomes

Delegates will have an understanding of how Local Authority Housing Finance is determined and the issues involved.

Who Should Attend

This seminar and workshop is designed for people who are not experts in housing finance, but who need to understand the basics and achieve an overview of what is going on. It is suitable for councillors, housing managers, tenant representatives, finance staff who have limited experience of local authority housing finance.

Customised Course

We are able to customise all of our in house courses to your own needs.

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