All You Want To Know About Local Authority Housing Finance 2010

We are running our 2010 series of ‘All You Want to Know about Local Authority Housing Finance’ at venues in all regions of England from February to December. This course is designed to give an introduction and overview to this important subject and will make specific reference to the situation in the region in which the seminar is held.

Do you think that a working knowledge of local authority housing finance, acquired at our fully up to date seminar, would put you and your colleagues in a position of advantage?

Whether you are in a Local Authority, Arms Length Management Organisation or a Government Office; whether you are a Housing Manager, Tenant Representative, Elected Member, ALMO Board member, or even a member of the Housing Finance Team, you could benefit from one of our courses at which you will learn ‘All You Want To Know About Local Authority Housing Finance’.

This seminar will cover a range of topics including:

• Housing Revenue Account
• Rent Restructuring
• Service Charges
• Housing Subsidy
• Capital Programmes
• Decent Homes Standard
• Housing Finance settlement for 2010/11
• Housing Revenue Account Business Plans
• Comprehensive Spending Reviews 2007 and 2010
• Communities & Local Government / Treasury review of Council Housing Finance
• Consultation Paper on Self-Financing
• New Build and Social Housing Grant
• Value for Money
• Strategic Housing responsibilities
• Private Sector Housing
• Homelessness
• Supporting People
• Housing Benefit
• Regeneration
• Regulation by the Tenant Services Authority
• Options Appraisals
• Arms Length Management
• Private Finance Initiative
• Stock Transfer
• the Recession
• and many other aspects of local authority housing finance

The course is accompanied by a very useful 100 page book entitled: “All You Want To Know About Local Authority Housing Finance 2010”

Many people – officers, elected members, tenants and others with an interest in local authority housing have already benefited from this course.

The cost of this seminar is £260 plus VAT in London and £230 plus VAT at the other venues, making a total of £305.50 in London and £270.25 at the other venues. The fee includes lunch. This represents excellent value for money but there are also discounts available:

• AWICS is committed to tenant empowerment and we are therefore offering a discount of 50% to tenant representatives including tenant board members of arms length management organisations and housing associations.
• If you buy one place at a seminar, you can buy additional places at the same seminar at a discount of 50% (this offer does not apply to London venues)
• The Institute of Public Sector Management (IPSM) has negotiated a discount of 25% for their members.

Note: Only one discount can be claimed for each place

Event Location(s)

Below is a list of the locations we will be holding this training course.

• London: Novotel Hotel, Waterloo - 17 February 2010
• West Midlands: Novotel Hotel, Coventry - 02 March 2010
• Northwest: Thistle Hotel, Haydock - 23 March 2010
• Southwest: Angel Hotel, Chippenham - 14 April 2010
• Northeast: New Northumbria Hotel, Newcastle - 06 May 2010
• Cumbria: Stone Cross Manor Hotel, Kendal - 23 June 2010
• South: Novotel Hotel, Southampton - 01 July 2010
• East: Gonville Hotel, Cambridge - 28 September 2010
• East Midlands: The Waltons Hotel, Nottingham - 19 October 2010
• Yorkshire: Leeds Rugby Lodge, Headingley - 09 November 2010
• London: Ibis Hotel, Euston - 09 December 2010