Source · Select Committees · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 14
14
Deferred
Paragraph: 63
We call on social housing providers to take stigma and discrimination seriously, not to assume...
Recommendation
We call on social housing providers to take stigma and discrimination seriously, not to assume its staff are immune from such prejudices, and to ensure their boards better reflect their communities. We also encourage them to make every effort to encourage diversity among their senior management teams. As part of its review of the consumer standards, we also recommend that the Regulator of Social Housing introduce a requirement on providers to demonstrate that their boards and senior management teams reflect the diversity of the communities they serve.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government states it is considering how requirements on diversity among boards and senior management will be set in a future suite of consumer standards and how they might proactively regulate them, with a consultation planned for 2023.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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7. Our overall intention for the new standards will remain to set clear outcome-based expectations that all registered providers must meet, including in relation to how they deliver their services to achieve the right outcomes for tenants. The sector is hugely diverse. By setting outcomes that registered providers must achieve, and seeking assurance that they are achieving them, registered providers and their tenants are enabled to design the most appropriate way to meet their outcomes according to the needs of their tenant base. An important part of the assurance we will be seeking will be how providers take into account the views of tenants in the management of their homes and that tenants are given opportunities to influence providers’ policies and decision making with respect to housing. (Paragraphs 68 and 97) The Regulation of Social Housing: Regulators’ responses to the Committee’s First Report 3
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