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TSA Review: Update
03 August 2010
The future of the TSA and its role in the social housing sector received further impetus with Housing Minister Grant Shapps writing to the NHF chief executive outlining the Government’s TSA review and how the sector is regulated and inspected.
The Minister sets out that he will review all TSA regulatory functions and inspections and consider whether they should continue and if so how and by whom. The review is part of the Comprehensive Spending Review due to report in October, but the Minister has asked for the review of the TSA to be concluded by early September.
The Government intends to introduce a Decentralisation and Localism Bill in the autumn, and the Minister’s intention which he voiced at his speech in Harrogate this year is that the consideration of tenants’ complaints, by way of local Tenants’ Panels, should achieve increased local accountability not involving the TSA.
The Minister is also on record as saying: “The TSA is something I have always been very sceptical about. I think it was set up as a very expensive way to do some reasonably straightforward things…and in terms of looking after the tenants it is in danger of failing very badly.”’
The scope of the review will include:
- making recommendations on where TSA functions which will be continued should be located
- review the options for funding the future regulatory model
- to establish a new policy for the handing of the complaints from tenants about their landlord which achieves greater levels of local accountability
NHF chairman David Orr expressed concern with the timetable for the review given the complex issues to be resolved but that despite some points of concern the review ‘is broadly compatible with the objectives [of the NHF]’.
We will continue to provide updates on this review as and when they occur.
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