Performance and Service Improvement for Local Authorities

Our communities of practice are a group of like minded professionals that work (or have an interest in) an area of housing practice.

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About

The remit of this community of practice is to share practice on regulatory requirements and developments, national scrutiny developments and learning from outcomes, sharing knowledge and experience of service improvement tools and approaches. The community of practice also regularly shares knowledge and learning on customer satisfaction measurement approaches and tenant scrutiny activities. 

 

 

Key Content

1

Data insights, including review of Charter and network data, good practice and common errors. Tenant insight – a toolkit for landlords

2

Annual Assurance Statements – reviews of key themes

3

Tenant scrutiny panels – best practice

4

Meeting new statutory requirements, including Getting to know you – collecting equalities information and Human Rights-based approaches to housing

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Tenant Scrutiny – sharing best practice

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Value for Money – What is value for money – best practice

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Regulatory intervention – learning from others’ experience sharing best practice

Services

Forthcoming Events

Charter Preparation Session 2026 – Thu 19 March – 2pm – 4pm

This Charter Preparation Session will help you prepare high‑quality data for the Annual Return on the Scottish Social Housing Charter 2026
19th Mar 2026
Virtual Event on Microsoft Teams

Charter Preparation Session 2026 – Fri 20 March – 10am to 12pm

This Charter Preparation Session will help you prepare high‑quality data for the Annual Return on the Scottish Social Housing Charter 2026.
20th Mar 2026
Virtual Event on Microsoft Teams

Publications and reports

EESSH Voluntary Collection Template 2025-26

EESSH Voluntary Collection Template 2025-26 allows you to collect data on EESSH which you can benchmark with other participating organisations.

SHN Network Indicators Collection Template 2025-26

Template to collect Annual Network Indicators for 2025-26, which give you extra context, complementing Charter data.

Annual Network Indicators Guidance 2025-26

Guidance notes to help you complete you Annual Network Indicators Return for 2025/26.

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