SVP SOCIAL HOUSING The Society of St. Vincent De Paul/Frederic Ozanam Trust, as a registered Approved Housing Body (AHB), provided 863 of social housing units nationally in 2019, delivered and managed by 65 Conferences. This involves some 740 members supported by employees across various schemes. In total 943 tenant’s avail of the Society’s social housing.
SVP Annual Report 2019
The Society saw the Social Housing Regulation Office recognise and commend the substantial progress achieved by the Society nationally in addressing regulation compliance across its governance, financial management and performance management areas. In addition, the affirmed position of the National Management Council in addressing noncompliance was welcomed with cases taken on board and addressed in a consequential manner.
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Across the national team rolling out a number of initiatives and training programmes. Such Programmes included the roll out of the Health & Safety Training Awareness Program across all Regions with the Programme culminating in the development of a Health & Safety Management Manual (for publication in 2020) for reference and use nationally across operations. The year also saw first steps taken in the application of suitable IT system for social housing with exploration and review of IT systems across the AHB and private sector with the decision taken to roll out the Castleton Community system on a pilot basis across 7 participating Conferences nationally with assessment of the system and decisions around further roll out to take place in 2020. The National Social Housing Committee continued to meet across the year with Regional Social Housing Committee meetings held in each of the seven Regions quarterly. 2019 saw the expansion of the National Social Housing Team with the appointment of a Senior Social Housing Officer (Services & Performance) and a Social Housing Administrator.
