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Morning Briefing: abuse and neglect in sheltered housing

News23.01.189.00 AM by Carl Brown

Research shows abuse allegations in sheltered housing on the rise and reports from yesterday’s government figures on cladding removal works

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The BBC has reported a 30% increase in allegations of abuse and neglect regarding supported housing and sheltered living tenants.

The BBC Radio 4 programme File on 4 obtained data on safeguarding alerts from councils and social care trusts and reported that there had been 30,000 reported cases of abuse or neglect between April 2014 and November last year.

Elsewhere, several newspapers reported on figures published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government yesterday on its Building Safety Programme post-Grenfell.

The Sun and The Guardian both focus on the pace of recladding, reporting that only three out of 160 tower blocks have been reclad with safer materials since last June’s disaster.

Inside Housing’s report on the figures notes that work has only started on 57 of the 160 blocks with aluminium composite material cladding.

Natalie Elphicke, chief executive of the Housing and Finance Institute, has written a piece for the Conservative Home website detailing what she thinks needs to happen in order for the government to hit its target of building 300,000 homes a year.

Lakehouse, the social housing repairs contractor, has returned to profit after making a loss following a turbulent period. You can read its preliminary results which were announced to the stock market this morning here.

The BBC also has a report on the Welsh Government suing two firms that gave advice over the sale of 15 publicly owned sites, which was criticised for not raising enough money for the taxpayer.

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Ian Mulheirn, director of consulting at research body Oxford Economics, has an interesting take on housing need projections and why they are often wrong:

And Stuart Davies from Sovereign is the latest housing figure to write a piece for the Chartered Institute of Housing as part of its Rethinking Social Housing project:

What’s on

The National Housing Federation’s Risk Management Conference takes place in Birmingham today

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