The Scottish Housing Regulator today published a summary of the risks it will focus on in its annual risk assessment of social landlords.
The Regulator’s annual risk assessment is the main way it works to safeguard and promote the interests of tenants and service users.
It uses its risk assessment to decide whether it needs any further information or assurance from landlords and where landlords may need to improve.
John Jellema, Assistant Director of Regulation, said:
“Tenants, other service users and social landlords continue to face a difficult economic context with continued volatility and uncertainty. And the Scottish Government has declared a national housing emergency as a result of the significant challenges facing tenants and landlords.
"Our risk assessment will continue to have a strong focus in particular on how social landlords deliver homes and services for people who are homeless or at the risk of homelessness.
"We will also keep a focus on social landlord performance in how they deliver services, the development of new homes, the quality of homes, tenant and resident safety, and financial health and governance in registered social landlords.”
The Regulator will publish the outcome of its risk assessment along with an engagement plan for each social landlord by the end of March 2025.
Notes to editors
- The Scottish Housing Regulator was established on 1 April 2011 under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010. Its objective is to safeguard and promote the interests of tenants and others who use local authority and RSL housing services. The Regulator operates independently of Scottish Ministers and is accountable directly to the Scottish Parliament. It assumed its full regulatory responsibilities on 1 April 2012. The Regulator consists of the Chair and eight Board members. More information about the Regulator can be found on its website at www.housingregulator.gov.scot
- SHR’s approach to how it regulates social landlords is set out in its current Regulatory framework – Regulation of Social Housing in Scotland.