Join us on a special International Women's Day episode of the Ask the Experts Podcast by Pennington Choices, as we sit down with inspiring women leaders in the housing sector. Hear their stories, insights, and experiences as they share their journey and discuss the challenges and opportunities for women in the housing sector.

Listen to our building experts, Letrice and Jim, provide a recap of fire safety legislation, lessons learned, and best practices developed over the past year. Topics covered include:

Watch the full webinar now to discover best practices developed from working with organisations over the past year. Download presentation slides, access live poll results, and Q&A session here > https://info.pennington.org.uk/webinar/fire-safety-legislation-latest-legal-obligations-and-best-practice

Tune in to our short podcast extracted from our insightful webinar, "Consumer Regulation: Are you ready to meet the revised standards?"

In this segment, our experts engage with the Regulator of Social Housing to explore the upcoming changes in consumer regulation, set to be enforced from April 2024.

Discover essential insights within the webinar such as:

Watch our webinar in full with presentation slides here -> https://info.pennington.org.uk/webinar/consumer-regulation-are-you-ready-to-meet-the-revised-standards?

We’re back! November’s ‘Ask the Experts: What’s new this month’ podcast episode covers all things water hygiene and legionella. This episode highlights the key factors of Legionnaire’s disease, including where it comes from and how to keep your water safe. Discover how to determine if you need a legionella risk assessment to comply with the BS 8580 standard, how to find the most suitable risk assessor for you, and what actions to take post-risk assessment. Gain expert insight on how to manage water hygiene in commercial properties, offices, communal areas, and domestic properties within social housing.

We’d love to hear from you if you have any feedback or specific topics that you want to ask our experts to cover in next month’s instalment! 

Speakers

Sarah Davies, Professional Services Director, Pennington Choices

Caitlin Stubbs, Consultant, Pennington Choices

Links discussed within podcast -

[Page 10] Legionnaires' disease: The control of legionella bacteria in water systems. Approved Code of Practice and guidance on regulations L8 (hse.gov.uk)

June's 'Ask the Experts: What's new this month?' podcast episode covers both May and June updates, discussing the latest building and fire safety updates in detail, as well as touching on news around consumer regulation and housing standards. From the opening of the registration portal by the BSR and a new fire safety campaign by Salix Homes, to the Housing Ombudsman's new Spotlight report on Knowledge and Information Management, this month's episode is jam-packed with expert insight into the newest industry updates. As always, if you have any feedback or specific topics you’d like us to discuss, we’d love to hear from you.

Links discussed within the podcast -

Building Safety Regulator: giving us structure and safety information (key building information) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 

Delivering for Tenants, April 2023 | London Councils 

On this month's ‘Ask the Experts: What’s new this month?’ episode, our experts discuss the general updates and key news you need to have on your April radar, from Tenant Satisfaction Measures coming into force and the continued wait for the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill, to damp and mould investigations and the government's new ‘Make Things Right’ campaign. Be sure to let us know if you have any feedback or specific topics you’d like us to cover, as always, we’d love to hear from you! 

March’s episode of Ask the Experts delves deep into several key updates around building safety, new regulations, and property condition...from the new ‘Be ready’ campaign by the Building Safety Regulator and the amends to the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill, right down to the updated guidance from the Scottish Housing Regulator and why the 2025 analogue phone switch off should be on your radar.

If you have any feedback or specific topics you’d like us to discuss, we’d love to hear from you. Until next time!

On this month’s episode of our monthly series, our team of experts discuss Michael Gove admitting that flawed government guidance contributed to the cladding crisis, recent regulatory changes around building and fire safety, the Housing and Health Secretaries responding to the Coroner's prevention of future deaths report around damp and mould; and an update on water hygiene guidance.

If you have any feedback or specific topics you’d like us to discuss, we’d love to hear from you. See you next month!

Kicking off our first Ask the Experts podcast of 2023, January’s episode covers the most recent updates for property condition and building safety, from the release of ONS census data to the consultation on the Higher Risk Buildings Regulations. Our experts also chat about the upcoming Tenant Satisfaction Measures and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 coming into force very soon.

If you have any feedback or specific topics you’d like us to discuss, we’d love to hear from you. See you next month!

On this month’s episode of our monthly series, our team of experts cover the main changes you need to be aware of as we enter December. We discuss responding to the Regulator and addressing recent announcements from Michael Gove, to the closure of the Grenfell Tower public inquiry and the management of data, all whilst keeping things brief.

If you have any feedback or specific topics you’d like us to cover, please get in touch. We look forward to chatting again in the new year!