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English regulator confirms full return to normal reporting arrangements
The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has confirmed that it has returned back to pre-coronavirus reporting arrangements.
In an update on its website today, the RSH said it had fully reverted back to all of its usual requirements and deadlines with regards to submissions of data from registered providers.
The confirmation comes after the agency sent letters to all chief executives in March outlining post-pandemic requirements.
Following the outbreak of COVID-19 and the resultant lockdown in England, the RSH changed a number of its operating procedures, which included postponing all of its reporting deadlines and temporarily halting in-depth assessments of providers.
These changes meant that housing associations did not have to file their annual statistical data returns as usual in May last year to give them more time to concentrate on dealing with the pandemic.
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Providers submitted their last Coronavirus Operational Response Survey reports to the regulator in April.
Under the new dates, registered providers were expected to submit their statistical data returns on the 31 May, with the RSH threatening to publish the names of those associations that failed to do so when the full statistical data return is submitted.
Landlords will also have to submit financial forecast returns on 30 June and their quarterly survey returns three weeks after each quarter, with the deadline for the next submission being 21 July.
Value for money self-assessments will once again have to be filed along with annual accounts, no later than six months after the end of the financial year.
The update confirmed that the regulator will continue to carry out in-depth assessments for the time being and will respond to any compliance issues in line with existing duties.
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