Essential Housing Advice Skills
A three day residential training course for those involved in assisting, advising or providing housing for student living in further/higher education institutional accommodation or the private rented sector.
AGENDA
Day One - Monday 19th January 2009
12.15pm - 12.30pm
Registration and Coffee
12.30pm - 1.30pm
Lunch (provided)
1.30pm - 1.45pm
Delegates’ Introductions and Introduction to the Course
THEME: Agreement and Contracts - the Legal Rights of Students
THEME LEADER: John Martin, Barrister
1.45pm – 2.45pm
What Actually is a Tenancy? The legal consequences of the Landlord and Tenant Relationship
2.45pm - 3.00pm
Questions
3.00pm - 3.15pm
Tea and Coffee
3.15pm - 4.00pm
Types of Tenancy: Assured Shorthold Tenancies, Residential Licences and Student Tenancies
4.00pm – 4.45pm
Case Working Groups: Small group work looking at a variety of examples of casework arising out of the earlier sessions
4.45pm - 5.15pm
Reports back from Case Working Groups
5.15pm – 6.00pm
The Housing Act 2004: What is a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) and What Properties should be Licensed? Compliance, Standards and Enforcement
6.00pm – 6.30pm
Questions and Discussion
7.00pm
Dinner (provided for residential delegates)
Day Two -Tuesday 20th January 2009
8.00am - 9.00am
Breakfast (provided for residential delegates)
9.20am - 9.30am
Introduction to Day Two and Welcome to Any Second Day Delegates
THEME: The Legal Relationship between Institution & Student in Institutionally Provided Accommodation
THEME LEADER: Hilary Crook, Solicitor, Hatch Legal
9.30am - 10.40am
The Legal Differences and Similarities between the Private Sector and Institutionally Provided Accommodation: is the institution just a landlord?
10.40am - 11.00am
Questions and Discussion
11.00am - 11.20am
Tea and Coffee
11.20am - 12.20pm
How Responsibilities for Discipline and Care Affects the Institution in its Role of the Landlord
12.20pm - 12.40pm
Introduction to Group Work
12.40pm - 1.45pm
Lunch (provided)
1.45pm - 2.45pm
Case Working Groups: Small group work looking at a variety of examples of case work arising out of the earlier sessions
2.45pm - 3.30pm
Reports Back from Case Working Groups
3.30pm - 3.45pm
Tea and Coffee
THEME: Deposits, Booking Fees and Guarantors
THEME LEADER: Hilary Crook, Solicitor, Hatch Legal
3.45pm – 4.15pm
The Legal Purpose of Guarantors
4.15pm – 5.00pm
Deposits, Cancellation and Booking Fees: the Deposit Protection Schemes - what they apply to, how they work, compliance and dispute resolution systems
5.00pm – 5.30pm
Discussion and some case examples
Optional Session
Martin Blakey, Chief Executive, Unipol
5.40pm – 6.30pm
An Overview of Current Student Housing Issues: the Uses Accreditation under the Government Approved Codes of Practice for Larger Student Developments
7.30pm
Dinner (provided for residential delegates)
Day Three - Wednesday 21st January 2009
8.00am - 9.15am
Breakfast (provided for residential delegates)
9.20am - 9.30am
Introduction to Day Three and Welcome to Any Third Day Delegates
THEME: Maintaining Standards and Combating Disrepair
THEME LEADER: John Martin, Barrister
9.30am - 10.30am
Tenants Rights to Repair: Contractual and Statutory Obligation: Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, Environmental Protection act, Statutory Nuisance, the Housing Act 2004 and other regulatory matters (gas, electrical and soft furnishings)
10.30am - 11.00am
Questions and Discussion
11.00am - 11.15am
Tea and Coffee
11.15am - 12.30pm
Case Working Groups
12.30pm - 1.00pm
Reports back from Case Working Groups
1.00pm - 1.55pm
Lunch
1.55pm - 2.55pm
Legal and Tactical Issues: negotiation, using accreditation and complaints systems and the limits of the law
2.55pm - 3.20pm
Closing remarks
3.25pm
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