AGENDA
DAY ONE - Monday 1st December 2008
12.15pm - 12.30pm
Registration & Coffee
12.30pm - 1.15pm
Lunch (provided)
1.15pm - 1.30pm
Delegates’ Introductions & Introduction to the Course
THEME: What Can & Cannot be Subject to Contract
THEME LEADERS: John Martin, Barrister, Bradford Law Centre and Hilary Crook, Solicitor, Hatch Legal
1.30pm - 2.00pm
Recap: What is a Tenant
2.00pm - 3.15pm
Where Statutory Intervention Begins and Ends: Why the Contract is not the Whole Story
3.15pm - 3.45pm
Tea & Coffee (includes accommodation check in for residential delegates)
3.45pm - 5.00pm
Regulating Student Behaviour: A Question of Contract or Discipline? Enforcement of obligations, negotiating settlements & risk management
5.00pm - 6.00pm
Small Group Work: looking at a variety of examples of case work arising out of the earlier sessions
6.00pm - 6.45pm
Reports back from Group Work
7.00pm
Dinner (provided for residential delegates)
DAY TWO - Tuesday 2nd December 2008
8.00am - 9.15am
Breakfast (provided for residential delegates)
9.30am - 9.40am
Introduction to Day Two & Welcome to Any Day Two Delegates
THEME: The Role of the Local Authority: Enforcing Standards and Voluntary Accreditation
THEME LEADERS: John Martin, Barrister, Bradford Law Centre & Neil Marsden, Independent Environmental Health Officer
9.45am – 11.00am
The Role of the Local Authority: Public Health Issues, the Housing Health and Safety Ratings System and the Housing Act 2004
11.00am – 11.30am
Questions and Discussion
11.30am – 11.45am
Tea and coffee
11.45am – 12.30pm
Controlling Nuisance and Maintaining Standards
12.30pm – 12.45pm
Questions and Discussion
12.45pm – 1.45pm
Lunch (provided)
1.45pm - 3.00pm
Introduction to and Group Work
3.00pm - 3.10pm
Tea & Coffee
3.10pm - 3.45pm
Feedback from Group Work
3.45pm - 4.15pm
Smoking and Drugs in Student Accommodation: Obligations & Rights
4.15pm - 4.40pm
Questions & Discussion
4.45pm - 5.30pm
Noise Nuisance: Methods of Approach Using Existing Legislation and the Local Authority
5.30pm - 6.00pm
Case Studies & Discussion
7.00pm
Dinner (provided for residential delegates)
DAY THREE - Wednesday 3rd December 2008
8.00am - 9.15am
Breakfast (provided for residential delegates)
9.20am - 9.30am
Introduction to Day Three & Welcome to Any Day Three Delegates
THEME: Harassment & Inter-Tenant Friction
THEME LEADERS: Hilary Crook, Solicitor, Hatch Legal & Sarah McDonald Tenancy Support Officer, Unipol
9.30am - 10.30am
Harassment & Unlawful Eviction
10.30am - 11.15am
Case Studies and Discussion
11.15am - 11.30am
Tea and Coffee
11.30am - 12.30am
Inter Tenant Friction: the Role of the Advisor; the use of mediation and other housing management techniques; tackling anti social behaviour and mental health issues
12.30pm - 1.15pm
Case studies and Discussion
1.15pm - 2.45pm
Lunch (provided)
THEME: Briefing
THEME LEADER: Martin Blakey, Chief Executive, Unipol Student Homes
2.45pm - 3.45pm
An Update on Issues Currently Affecting Student Housing: will include the latest update on how the deposit protection schemes are working, Energy Performance Certificates, On Line Applications and the operation of Government Approved Codes of Practice for educational establishments and larger student HMOs
3.45pm - 4.15pm
Concluding Remarks
4.20pm
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